"Wall Street Widow's $1 Billion Donation Ensures Free Tuition at Bronx Medical School"

Ruth Gottesman, widow of an early investor in Berkshire Hathaway, has donated $1 billion in stock to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, ensuring free tuition for students in perpetuity. The donation will cover current fourth-year students' tuition and future students beginning in August. Gottesman's goal is to attract a more diverse pool of applicants and alleviate the burden of student debt, revolutionizing the school's ability to attract mission-driven students and enabling them to pursue projects and ideas that might otherwise be prohibitive.