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MJ Hayden - Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com

The Importance of Mentorship When Pursuing a STEM Career as a Person With a Visual Impairment.

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“Where you nervous the first time you had to use a Bunsen burner with an open flame during microbiology lab?” my mentee asked me.“Of course!” I told my mentee,“You mean my instructors and classmates expect blind scientists to be comfortable around an open flame with ethanol and trust us to not light the lab on fire?” I joked. My mentee and I continued the conversation with techniques he could use to safely work around the open flame as well as streak a bacteria culture on an agar plate. We also talked about technologies that could be …

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