Leticia Carranza, who was putting her son in a car seat for infants even though he had outgrown it, got a larger seat worth $40 for free.
Jeff Walker, a UW-Madison scientist, got nearly $1 million to buy mass spectrometers to study proteins.
Both benefited from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, a $300 million fund at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health designed to improve the health of state residents.