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A power outage on campus leads physics student Zoya Vallari to take a stand against her university's female-only curfew.
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Inspired by her grandfather, Kitty Yang becomes a math teacher, but soon realizes she misses being a student.
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In the middle of a school day, science teacher Brittany Beck passes out in her classroom, leading her to reflect on what got her here.
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As a brand-new professor of physiology, John Redden is eager to help students, but soon realizes it’s more complicated than he thought.
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Growing up, Sheena Cruickshank's teenage older brother inspires her love of science, but then one summer he returns from university with a lump on his arm.
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Just before she leaves for her dream opportunity to teach marine science on the Red Sea, Latasha Wright gets a call that puts her plans in jeopardy.
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After Denise Coberley brings up her doubt in the Bible to her adoptive religious parents, she finds herself on a journey of self-discovery.
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A question that Laura Spink asked her parents as a kid comes up again when her own child begins to ask similar questions.
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Monica Dunford finds physics cold and boring until she gets a summer job in a lab that changes everything.
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Parmvir Bahia struggles to appease her parents’ desires for an Indian son-in-law while also satisfying her own desires to be a scientist.
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Ali Mustafa finds that the scars of war stay with him even at his new job in the lab.
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Ralph Bouquet goes off script during a psychology research study with uncomfortable and revealing consequences.
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In following her dream of studying chemistry, Charlotte Istance-Tamblin sees how to break the toxic patterns in her relationships.
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The lessons that Margaret Rubega learns from her dad about fighting back are put to the test when he becomes the one she must stand up to.
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