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In high school and at university, she studied with normal students under the integrated programme, and managed to emerge tops, winning the admiration of her peers and tutors.

Rotich said that being in an integrated class made her appreciate life more.

But she says a lot needs be done to boost the transition rate of students with disabilities in pursuit of higher education.

"There is need for quantity and quality learning materials, and adequate infrastructure," Rotich said.

"I cannot remember seeing at all, but I am told that I went blind when I was about to join Class One at a local primary school," Rotich recalled, adding that her family has been very supportive through out.

She was particularly inspired by her late father and her brothers, as well as Reuben Kigame, the Eldoret-based blind singer and entrepreneur.

Rotich’s biggest challenge, she says, has been accessing Braille books at Moi University, and had to spend a small fortune to have stud

University of Miami graduate student Véronique Koch is part of a team that has won a Suncoast Emmy award for “Sentinels of the Seas,” an episode of the WPBT2 nature series Changing Seas. Koch has been an associate producer for the series since 2009.

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“Sentinels of the Seas” is about legacy contaminants and other pollutants that are finding their way into the marine food chain and eventually into human beings through the seafood they consume. Dolphins serve as the proverbial “canaries in the coal mine” since they rely on the oceans completely and show symptoms associated with the contaminants first. Jenny Litz, a Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science alumna and UM adjunct assistant professor, is a fisheries biologist for NOAA’s Southeast Florida Science Center who was featured in the episode, speaking about bottlenose dolphin physiology and pollutant levels in dolphins inhabiting Biscayne Bay, Florida.

Koch, who is originally from Luxembourg, is pursuing her master’s degree in marine biology and fisheries at the Rosenstiel School. She is studying black grouper ecology with David Dié, associate professor and director of the Cooperative Unit for Fisheries Education and Research. This slow-breeding species is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List because of its vulnerability to increases in exploitation.