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Students with Disabilities in Life Science Undergraduate Research Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities

Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Katelyn M. Cooper

Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Sara E. Brownell

*Address correspondence to: Sara E. Brownell (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Published Online:2 May 2022https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-07-0196

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Submitted: 2 August 2021

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© 2022 L. E. Gin et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2022 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0).

We thank the 20 undergraduate researchers with disabilities who interviewed with us and shared their thoughts and experiences. We also thank the ASU Research for Inclusive STEM Education (RISE) Center for feedback on earlier versions of this work. L.E.G. was supported by an NSF Graduate Fellowship (DGE-1311230) and an NSF S-STEM Grant (1644236). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.