RUTH GOTTESMAN

A $1 billion donation will make school tuition free forever at a Bronx school.

In a historic act of philanthropy, 93-year-old Ruth Gottesman has donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, ensuring free tuition for all students indefinitely. A former professor and long-serving trustee at the college, Gottesman made the transformative gift using Berkshire Hathaway stock inherited from her late husband, financier David […]