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  <Title>Fulbright Scholars with Disabilities Share Their Experiences</Title>
  <Tagline>UMBC Alum Mariam Yaldram featured on May 6!</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><span>Please join us 
    for Fulbright's online events that review and unpack the Fulbright 
    experience for Fulbright Scholars with disabilities from around the 
    world:</span><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>May
     2nd, 2024 3-4 pm- Navigating a Fulbright Study Grant as a 
    Neurodivergent Scholar in the UK with Geglie Davis-Tillie  (Online)</strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>May 6th, 2024 3-4 pm Navigating a Fulbright ETA Grant as a Disabled Scholar in Taiwan with Speaker Mariam Yaldram, <em>UMBC ALUMNI</em>  (Online) </strong></div><div><br></div><div><span>As a new UMBC alum, in June of 2022 <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-news-magazine/posts/125930" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> Mariam Yaldram's Fulbright on Global Education and Disability was featured in UMBC Magazine and is linked here</a>.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Sessions are 45 minutes-1 hour</div><div><br></div><div>General information on <a href="https://fulbrightscholars.org/document/fulbright-scholars-disabilities" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">being a Fulbright Scholar with a Disability can be found with their online document here</a>.  <a href="https://fulbright.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC information on the Fulbright Scholar process is linked here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Feel
     free to register for any of these Fulbright events by scanning the QR 
    code on the linked flyer or click on the website button below. Enjoy the
     webinars and best wishes with the Fulbright process. </div><div><br></div><div>~*~*~*~*~*~*~</div><div><br></div><div><div>At UMBC the <a href="https://accessibility.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Office of Accessibility &amp; Disability Services</a> can
     be a resource for co-creating a disability-friendly community on campus
     (which may include assistive technology), including these processes:</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://sds.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Student Disability Services works with academic accommodations</a></li><li><a href="https://accessibility.umbc.edu/employee-accommodations/requesting-work-related-accommodations-at-umbc-procedures/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Work-related accommodations for faculty staff and student employees are administered </a>via ADS.</li><li><a href="https://accessibility.umbc.edu/report-campus-accessibility-concern/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Accessibility Concerns may be reported online via this link</a>.</li></ul></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/accessibility/posts/141376/attachments/51990" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Download Flyer</a>
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  <Summary>Please join us  for Fulbright's online events that review and unpack the Fulbright  experience for Fulbright Scholars with disabilities from around the  world:         May  2nd, 2024 3-4 pm-...</Summary>
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