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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Lyons, Cheryl <lyons.169@osu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 3:26</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">PM</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Please send out to your community partner contacts for one last push.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Student Life Disability Services has a grant from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to nominate Ohio State students with spinal cord injuries for up to full academic funding through their
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/chnfoundation.org/programs/neilsen-scholarship-program/__;!!KGKeukY!xbAHGb4EeZQwNNlIbN7zpSAzaEVnkcWHWEhsz6mPHjslaqxodgJHcffVD7gunBMx-vHsdzrQzEJPF3Tug3yMqL-XEcw$">
Neilsen Scholarship Program</a>. These funds can cover tuition, fees, housing, books, meals, transportation, personal care assistants, and more!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I could use your help in finding qualified candidates to apply for these funds.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The deadline for students to apply on our
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/slds.osu.edu/registered-students/resources-scholarships*scholarships__;Iw!!AU3bcTlGKuA!EWYqvIkYEkgzmqrbO6gWV3gErQs0yvxoYL2NcSde0qMWllA5PwqOg0sSxwGDDV85RuNFTU-zoJsTxveR9C0ERRlGg2Q$">
SLDS website</a> for funding for the next academic year is March 25, 2025. Candidates can be incoming first-year students, current Ohio State students, transfer students, who are at the undergraduate or master’s level on any Ohio State campus. Applicants need
to have completed the FAFSA and need to submit a statement and a reference letter with their application.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Neilsen Foundation lists these requirements to be eligible:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Only individuals with neurological and functional impairment due to traumatic SCI, degenerative disease primary to the spinal cord (i.e., transverse myelitis) or damage to the spinal
cord due to tumors and surgery are eligible for support through this program.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Individuals with spinal dysfunction, paralysis or pain syndromes caused by other traumatic or primary orthopedic, genetic, or developmental
disorders <u>are not eligible</u> (e.g., multiple sclerosis, ALS, Chiari malformation or peripheral nerve injury).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Do you know anyone who might be interested? I’m happy to schedule a time to chat with any prospective students if they’d like to learn more.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you in advance for your assistance and feel free to share this e-mail with others who may be interested or who work with individuals with spinal cord injuries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Take care, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cheryl Lyons</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000">Cheryl L. Lyons, Ed.D.</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
Director, Disability Services<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000">Office of Student Life</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <br>
098 Baker Hall, 113 W. 12<sup>th</sup> Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210<br>
614-292-3307 Office / 614-292-4190 Fax / VRS 614-500-4445<br>
<a href="mailto:lyons.169@osu.edu" target="_blank">lyons.169@osu.edu</a> slds.osu.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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