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After feeling betrayed by the very systems meant to protect her, Karen McCaffrey chooses to become the advocate for survivors she once needed herself, and in her twenties, Mary Cyn endures a string of gynecological problems, and the lack of compassion she encounters in medical settings motivates her into changing how medical students learn patient care.
Being half Navajo and half white, Carissa Sherman turns to genetics to better understand her identity. As she questions where she belongs, her hair becomes a quiet but powerful marker of how she sees herself, and growing up, Ria Spencer believed “good hair” meant long hair but when a medical condition forces her to shave it all off, she’s challenged to rethink what that belief really means.
As a science teacher, Mamoudou N'Diaye was supposed to have all the answers, but he struggles to explain being Black in the USA, and Rhonda Key fights to be taken seriously by her white co-workers and students when she gets a job at a middle school.
Graduate student Angelique Allen doesn’t fully understand the strong connection she feels to the 2015 animated film Home, and growing up in segregated 1950s Baltimore, Ken Phillips learns early who society says he can’t be.
Getting dumped is the push psychologist Jiawen Huang needs to step outside his comfort zone, and while completing her PhD in neuroscience, Leslie Sibener is determined to fix her relationship.
After multiple relapses, Carlos Guerrero-Anderson takes a chance on an experimental treatment for his rare cancer, and Angie Weaver holds onto an unshakable belief that her daughter, who has a rare SCN2A disorder, will beat the odds.
When online dating isn't working out for him, Tristan Attwood decides to analyze the data himself, and in search of a deal, Gastor Almonte ends up with an unmanageable number of condoms.
Growing up, Modesta Abugu knows firsthand the challenges rural African farmers face. But when she discovers that misinformation is making things worse, she sets out to change the narrative, and while living in South Africa, Fiona Tudor Price witnesses how AIDS misinformation devastates an entire nation.
When Misha Gajewski’s grandfather has a stroke while the rest of her family is out of town, she suddenly becomes the emergency contact, and after learning that her mother gave up on her dream of becoming a musician, Paula Croxson vows never to give up on her dream of being a scientist.
When AI takes over comedian Kyle Gillis’s job, he takes it personally, and while researching an AI model, engineer Omiya Hassan discovers one major problem: the amount of energy it’s consuming.
As a kid, JR Denson is determined to master the art of homemade french fries—but then his kitchen experiment goes up in flames, and faced with a looming Science Olympiad deadline, Adam Ruben is sure his last-minute “clock” made from a bag of water will do the trick.