Rutgers University Dedication

I just returned from Rutgers University where I accompanied my father, Walter Welkowitz, for the dedication of the new 40 million dollar Biomedical Engineering (BME) building.  Rutgers President Richard McCormick, fresh off dealing with the Imus nightmare, congratulated my father for being the person who started the BME program at Rutgers in the early 70's.     It was quite an impressive site with hundreds of attendees, all of whom applauded boisterously when my Dad's name was announced as the father of the program by BME faculty member (and leader of the building project) Martin Yarmush, aka Maich Yarmush.