Nature’s call becomes wake-up call at N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences

From newsobserver.com:

Lowman has long worked to make science accessible. She built the nation’s only handicapped-accessible tree canopy walkway in Florida in 2000 to celebrate the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. And she recently won federal funding for a summer program that will allow her to take youngsters with mobility limitations into the canopy to do biological research. They don’t call her “Canopy Meg” for nothing.

Signs identifying the family restroom are now in place, well before those young scientists visit the NRC in August to share their discoveries.

“We obviously need bathroom facilities to cater to them, and more importantly, to our visitors,” she wrote in response to my initial email.

Thanks to “Canopy Meg,” we have them now.

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