Quinnipiac University said it has received a $1 million gift to endow a chair at its new medical school.
The donation comes from William Weldon, a vice chairman of the Hamden college’s board of trustees and a retired CEO of Johnson & Johnson, and his wife Barbara Weldon. The endowed chair in rehabilitation medicine will be named after the Weldons, who graduated from the school in 1971.
Quinnipiac also announced today the creation of the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, which will focus on physical and occupation therapy. The institute will also house the Center for U.S. Veterans’ Rehabilitation, which offers reintegration assistance, therapy and education guidance.
