HELEN KIMMEL

KIMMEL--Helen L . The NYU Community deeply mourns the passing of our dear friend, Helen L. Kimmel, whose support was so indispensable to NYU's advancement over the last three decades. She and her beloved husband Martin, a Trustee of NYU Langone Health, had a transformative impact on the NYU Langone, establishing the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion, the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Wound Healing Center, and the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professorship in Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics. They left no less of a mark on Washington Square, where the Kimmel Center for University Life is a vibrant, central hub of campus activity. Compassionate, committed, and deeply engaged in the life of this University, Helen's lengthy involvement extends back to her first husband, Milton Kimmelman, a graduate and benefactor of NYU. She had amassed a long record of service to NYU as a University Trustee and Life Trustee; an NYU Langone Trustee from 1984 to 2016 and a member of the Board of Overseers until her passing; and a Life Trustee of NYU Langone, and as Chair of the University Committee on Trustees. Her commitment to NYU remained strong in the years following the loss of her husband Martin, and she went on to establish the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology and the Helen L. Kimmel Chair of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone, as well as the Kimmel Partner Scholarship Fund for students in financial need. She was a wonderful person who led a generous life, and we shall miss her very much. Our thoughts and sympathies are with her sister, Dr. Joan Birman; her children, Betsy Karel, Abby Leigh (a former member of the NYU Institute of Fine Arts Board of Trustees), and Peter Kimmelman and his wife, Elbrun; her stepson, Adam Kimmel (CAS '01), and his wife, Leelee; her grandchildren; and all of her many loved ones and friends. William Berkley, Chair, NYU Board of Trustees Andrew Hamilton, President, NYU