"Bronx Medical School Receives $1 Billion Donation for Free Tuition Program"

Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has donated $1 billion to the Bronx medical school, with instructions to cover tuition for all students going forward. This donation, one of the largest to an educational institution in the United States, is notable not only for its size but also because it is going to a medical institution in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough. The fortune came from her late husband, David Gottesman, a protégé of Warren Buffett. The donation aims to address the high rate of premature deaths and poor health in the Bronx, and is a significant contribution to the field of medical education.