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Two UW-Madison alumni honored as inspirational leaders by Heinz Awards

When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti in January 2010, former Marine and 2005 UW-Madison graduate Jacob Wood, along with fellow veteran William McNulty, assembled a rapid-response team to provide aid. Their success gave rise to Team Rubicon, an organization of volunteer veterans armed with a new mission: providing swift and effective disaster relief.

Suspending Kenya travel a difficult move

For the first time since 2007, Susan Gold, a nurse clinician at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, won’t be heading to Kenya this year to help teens learn to live with HIV/AIDS. The 10 students who would have traveled with her in the Global Health Field Experience are making other plans in the wake of the UW-Madison decision to suspend all student travel to the country.

Recent sightings: Kawaoka at the Capitol

University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka speaks to legislators, legislative staff and others about his lab’s work to develop a whole virus vaccine against the deadly Ebola pathogen during a public briefing in the North Hearing Room of the State Capitol on April 21. Kawaoka, professor of pathobiological sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine …