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1 0 | L O U I S V I L L E . E D U Public health and medical students help feed a village The Ebola outbreak spread throughout West Africa, disrupting already weak infrastructures and exacerbating food shortages in the region. In an effort to help with the global relief efforts, public health and medical students joined together to raise money for humanitarian aid. The effort, led by MPH student Allison Siu and other public health faculty, staff and students, resulted in $1,000 used to feed a small village in Sierra Leone. In addition, Siu collaborated with medical students to organize an educational workshop about the outbreak, the disease process and the role of health professionals in Louisville. "This experience will serve as a landmark for the start of my practice in public health. As such, the epidemic is not yet over, Ebola has not been eradi- cated, and the need is still present," Siu said. "My hope is that public health will continue to play a role in educating individuals and eliminating the spread of Ebola. There is no way for countries to solve these issues on their own, so the global investment is crucial." News & Impact West African villagers hold bags of rice, paid for through UofL efforts Walsh Ildstad Ildstad, Walsh earn national honors Two researchers at the University of Louisville have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Suzanne T. Ildstad, MD, director of UofL's Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, and Kevin M. Walsh, PhD, director of the Micro/Nano Technology Center, joined a group of just 170 people named Fellows of the NAI. "As a premier metropolitan research university, UofL strives to develop ideas into discoveries, then to translate these into forms that benef t all," said UofL Execu- tive Vice President for Research and Innova- tion William M. Pierce Jr., PhD. "Doctors Ildstad and Walsh are two of our many brilliant and dedicated scholars who do this every day." The NAI Fellows include 16 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and In- novation, 10 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Science, 21 Nobel Laureates, 107 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows and 62 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Fellows.