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Students and faculty are still told that they can’t work in a lab or do research safely, said Mark Leddy, who formerly managed disability-related grants for the National Science Foundation.
Making research labs more accessible Disabled people make up about 3% of the science, technology, engineering and math workforce, according to 2021 data from the National Science Foundation.