UD professor leads efforts to support science students with disabilities
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Karl Booksh points to data collected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) showing that Americans with disabilities make up some 10-15 percent of the population but account for less than 1 percent of those earning doctoral degrees in the sciences. Now, the UD professor of chemistry and biochemistry is exploring ways to change that.