By its very nature of innovation, science will always call for people with new and novel perspectives. This past weekend, I shared my story at the Reaching… Read more “Reaching Students with Disabilities Symposium”

This month I attended the 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition. Held in my home city of Boston, this conference was amazing. I presented my… Read more “256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition”

For the past two weeks I had the pleasure of teaching STEM to blind kids in Beirut, Lebanon.The camp was created by Empowerment Through Integration, a non… Read more “Empowerment Through Integration — Summer 2018”

I had the honor of attending the 2018 annual meeting of IPRIME (Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial & Materials Engineering). I presented my research titled “Adsorption… Read more “Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial & Materials Engineering 2018”

This past weekend I was in Washington D.C. at my second conference organized by the Ford Foundation. I gave two presentations, one titled “Probing Interfaces and Mesophases… Read more “National Academy of Science — Washington D.C.”

This weekend, I went to Berkeley’s “PhD for Me” conference to give a talk entitled, “Navigating Graduate School with a Disability.” Presented to a group of undergraduates… Read more “Talk at the University of California Berkeley”

I was invited to be on a panel on career connections at the State Services for the Blind. I spoke about my career path to a group… Read more “State Services for the Blind Panel”

This month I attended the 255th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, along with some 11,000 to 13,000 chemists. Held in New Orleans, the conference was… Read more “255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition”

This year I served on the Chemists with Disabilities (CWD) committee at the 255th ACS Meeting & Exposition. It was a wonderful opportunity to connect with chemists… Read more “Chemists with Disabilities”