Professor George Lauder teamed with scientists from Yale University and the University of Florida to host three students for an eight week summer program called Accessible Sharks. The program is part of the NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and was designed specifically for students with disabilities.
Lauder hosted Dakota Law, a rising senior in engineering sciences at Smith College. Law, who has an invisible disability, had never worked in a lab or held a shark. But, by the end of the eight-week program she was proudly displaying a chain catshark to fellow students.
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Image: Dakota Law (from left) holds a chain catshark for fellow student researchers Nick Wallis Mauro and Gianna Mitchell. Credit: Scott Eisen