Tag: disability
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Nation & World
Science no longer intimidates her. Neither do sharks.
Summer research program breaks down barriers for undergraduates with disabilities.
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Putting access for all first
Harvard’s affinity group for people with disabilities and their allies, Ability+, celebrates two years.
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Raising awareness about disability amid pandemic
First-year Melissa Shang fears that the challenges of disabled people have yet to be brought fully into focus. To counter this, she helped form a campus group that raises their profile.
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Justice for all
Phillips Brooks House Association honors disability activist Mia Mingus with the 15th Annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” award.
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Making a splash
Harvard student swimmer David Abrahams wins silver in his first Paralympics in Tokyo.
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One L, only harder
The following is excerpted from Haben Girma’s memoir “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.”
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Pulling disabilities out of the shadows
An interview with Nikita Andersson and Miso Kwak, master’s students at the Graduate School of Education, who launched the first student publication on disability last spring.
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When her life is over, she’ll have lived
Harvard senior Elsie Tellier has responded to her lethal disease with courage, sadness, and compassion. But not bitterness.
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Nation & World
Seeing past disabilities in the job search
Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind have teamed up to create a self-paced edX course that will educate recruiters and hiring managers in best practices when considering a job candidate with a disability.
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Nation & World
More time free from disability
Harvard researchers are among the co-authors of a new study saying that the increase in life expectancy in the past two decades has been accompanied by an even greater increase in years free of disability, thanks in large measure to improvements in cardiovascular health and declines in vision problems.