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UI specialist makes Braille filter for Ph.D. student's diploma

By Meg Thilmony
Tuesday September 2, 2008

Robin Scholz

Bryan McMurray, visual and hearing coordinator at the University of Illinois, talks about the Braille diploma he made. He was at his office Wednesday at the UI Rehabilitation-Education Center in Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN – Earning a degree takes a lot of work. You have to take exams, conduct research, write papers and more.

But proof that you earned the degree is pretty simple: a piece of paper, inscribed with your name and perhaps a few seals, crests and signatures.

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