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<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/hemenway_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />An "ode to public health" may lack the poetry of Pablo Neruda's tribute to love or even an artichoke, but that's exactly how James Marsh Professor-at-Large David Hemenway describes his forthcoming book that honors the ideas and individuals who have, with little recognition, made the world safer.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/alvord_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Jared Alvord, junior environmental studies major, was a pretty good high school student-athlete and performed his share of community service while growing up in Plainfield, Mass. While that record helped him secure a spot in ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s class of 2010, Alvord didn't exactly relax &#8212; comfortable in his successes &#8212; once he got here.