Time for our latest Wits Fund newsletter! We tell you about next month’s reunions on the east coast… don’t miss out! And about the Great Hall Facelift: because, when you turn 100, who doesn’t need a little lift and tuck to weather the next 100?
World renowned endocrinologist, and former Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn and EVP of its Health System, Prof Arthur Rubenstein, is our inaugural speaker for the Wits Fund webinar series. He reflects on his illustrious career, and his start at Wits University, in a talk entitled “My Journey from Wits to the Univ. of Pennsylvania: Personal Reflections”
How Curiosity Saved this Cat: The life story of an out-of-the-box thinker and maverick. Plus, in the 13th issue of Curios.ty, themed: #Gender, Wits University features research across the gender spectrum that aims to ensure a more equitable and tolerant society.
Our June 2022 newsletter covers the visit to our shores of a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as the story of how having great chemistry took one alumnus all over the world…sometimes by bicycle.
Since 1989, Stanley M. Bergman has been Chairman of the Board and CEO of Henry Schein, Inc., a Fortune 500® company and the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners, with approximately 21,600 Team Schein Members worldwide and operations or affiliates in 32 countries and territories.
John Teeger is the President of Founders Equity and a General Partner of Founders Equity I, LP, a private equity fund based in New York City.
Currently, Jane Levy works as co-CEO of a dental software startup, and as a Venture Partner in an oral-focused venture capital firm. Previously, Jane was a strategic advisor to Henry Schein’s Innovation Group.
Dr. Teboho Moja is a professor of higher education at New York University (NYU) and has been a policy analyst with a focus on the South African higher education system.
Cliff McMillan recently retired as a Principal of Arup, the global consulting engineering firm where he served for 54 years, first in South Africa and, since 1999, in the New York office.