This year our keynote address will be given by Dr. Bryan Shaw, a bio-inorganic chemist whose work supports people living with blindness and other disabilities. Founder of the Shaw laboratory, Dr. Shaw’s interdisciplinary work is engaged in serving young adults and youth who are visually impaired. The Shaw laboratory is engaged in multiple outreach projects including the development of tools to improve a parent’s ability to detect retinoblastoma with consumer-based digital photography and the creation of atomically correct 3-D printed protein models for use in school districts across central Texas.