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March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

Report: significant barriers persist for disabled scientists

In November 2019, researchers at John Hopkins Medicine released a study showing the number of disabled students enrolled in U.S. medical schools jumped from 2.7 per...

by Cheryl

February 22, 2020February 28, 2020

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Valuable employees: Companies need to do more to support disabled workers

Corporate inclusion efforts need to do more for disabled workers.

by Cheryl

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Improving access to education by making Braille textbooks cheaper and easier to produce

Currently, textbooks are converted to Braille by trained people who manually re-type the printed version — a process that is time-consuming and expensive. It’s...

by Cheryl January 16, 2020

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Australia: Hire and support minority astronomers or risk being left behind

Photo credit: Pixabay/Comfreak Australia’s astronomy sector is investing in diversity and inclusion but so far, efforts have focused primarily on women. In a new paper published in Nature...

by Cheryl December 6, 2019

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Number of medical students with disabilities on the rise

File photo courtesy: Pixabay The number of U.S. medical students reporting a disability is on the rise, according to a new research letter in JAMA. Part...

by Cheryl November 26, 2019February 9, 2020

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Employers lose talent by overlooking workers with disabilities

This article was written for theconversation.com by Silvia Bonaccio, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management at the University of Ottawa. It has...

by Cheryl July 30, 2019February 9, 2020