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<span style="font-size: 23px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SciAccess is dedicated to promoting innovative approaches to equitable science access.</span></h1>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It will explore the ways in which science and STEM as a whole can be made more inclusive, particularly for individuals with disabilities.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SciAccess will address societal and educational barriers to science faced by students, professionals, researchers, and members of the public
who have disabilities.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The conference aims to connect university researchers, professors, students, K-12 science teachers, disability rights advocates, astronomers,
scientists with disabilities, special education teachers, informal science educators, and anyone with interests that lie at the intersection of science and the need to provide equal access to it.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SciAccess will feature Keynote Speakers <a href="https://www.sciaccess.org/keynote-speakers/#grandin" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0px 3px;">Dr.
Temple Grandin</a>, renowned autism advocate and professor animal science, and <a href="https://www.sciaccess.org/keynote-speakers/#ansari" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0px 3px;">Anousheh Ansari</a>,
the first female private space explorer.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This inaugural SciAccess Conference is being funded by <a href="http://presidentsprize.osu.edu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0px 3px;">The
Ohio State University President’s Prize</a>, an initiative founded in 2017 by OSU President Dr. Michael V. Drake. SciAccess is part of a yearlong project focused on disability inclusion in science and astronomy. For further updates, follow Astronomy Accessibility
Project Coordinator Anna Voelker on Twitter @Anna_Voelker.</span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Section Background Image Description: </strong>NASA Hubble
Space Telescope image of the Whirlpool Galaxy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Credits:</strong> NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)</span></p>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">L. Scott Lissner, </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> ADA Coordinator and 504 Compliance Officer <br>
Associate, John Glenn School of Public Affairs<br>
Lecturer, Knowlton School of Architecture, Moritz College of Law & Disability Studies<br>
Board, Center for Disability Empowerment & VSA Ohio<br>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chair, Public Policy Committee, AHEAD<br>
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