Dorothy Chen Yuan

Dorothy Chen Yuan (Zool’63), a professor in the pathology department at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, remembers her genetics professor Edwin Helwig and entomology professor Gordon Alexander fondly. “These were the inspiring teachers who started me on a path to a career in biology,” she wrote. At CU, she and her husband helped establish a scholarship fund in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. This scholarship is in honor of three members of the Chen family who are CU alumni. Dorothy And her husband live in Bowie, Maryland.