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hen veterinarian ( page 24) learned of the many pets displaced during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he had to do something to help. He traveled to southeastern Romania, close to the Ukrainian border, where he worked with Sava’s Safe Haven, a family-run nonprofit animal shelter. Dr. Becker met with veterinary students and professionals to raise awareness and money for pets impacted by the war. At the Romanian shelter, he met a dog—“this small, middle-aged girl with long black hair who leaped into my lap and stretched up to kiss me,” he recalls. She had been.

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