[il-talk] Fw: [accessibleimage] SPOTLIGHT: Blind ISU professor teaches chemistry

[Deborah Kent Stein]

I'm still not receiving messages from Il-Talk, so I don't know whether 
anyone has posted this yet.  Apologies if this is a duplicate.

Debbie


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> excerpt article
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> SPOTLIGHT: Blind ISU professor teaches chemistry
> When one of Cary Supalo's students says a chemistry problem is too 
> difficult, he has a standard reply that usually stops them cold.
>
> "My being the blind guy," he tells them, "if I can do that, you can do it, 
> too."
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> Supalo is an assistant professor at Illinois State University who has an 
> Indiana-based business that sells adaptive equipment for the blind or 
> visually impaired.....
>
> Before Supalo attended college, he hated chemistry.
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> "I wasn't allowed to touch anything in high school," he said. But that 
> didn't stop his thirst for knowledge.
>
> "I just love learning. Learning is my passion," he said. And science was 
> one of the things he wanted to learn.
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> http://www.necn.com/04/10/13/SPOTLIGHT-Blind-ISU-professor-teaches-ch/landing_scitech.html?&apID=31a54d2327e14703b1d66d0ce80a4f81
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