April 09, 2026 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo DRES staff, coaches and athletes stress importance of funding, accessibility U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Illinois) spent part of her Tuesday on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she toured Disability Resources and Educational Services and met with some of the coaches and athletes behind its nationally […]
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Bleakney and collaborators want to disrupt the wheelchair market
Sept. 22, 2020 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Adam Bleakney and colleagues are pioneering a transformative wheelchair technology designed to increase independence, reduce injury risk, and reframe how society perceives mobility disability. As coach of the Illinois wheelchair track team, Adam Bleakney knows about the chronic overuse of shoulders and elbows by his athletes. But as a […]