Bruce Borden had it all at 36. A self-made man of means and influence, he was a prosperous entrepreneur, an insulation contractor and landlord, on track to an early retirement. Then he became paralyzed in a diving accident and lost it all.
Gregg Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, occasionally enlists Borden for advisory panels for UW’s Trace Research and Development Center, which advances technologies for people with disabilities.