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Ted Olds fears he’ll fail to graduate after his parents sacrificed to send him to engineering school.
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Keoni Mahelona leaves his home in Hawaii in pursuit of science.
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Environmental engineer Siddhartha Roy is baffled when the state of Michigan insists the water in Flint is safe to drink despite his scientific evidence.
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Worried she won't ever be able to commit to one field of study, Dale Markowitz decides to go all in on a neuroscience project.
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Engineering student Selam Gano returns to her father’s home country of Ethiopia with the hopes of providing clean water to the village where he grew up.
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As a PhD student, Rochelle Williams faces barriers to a career in engineering.
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Steve Crabtree gets an unusual start to his career: watching paint dry.
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Abhishek Shah takes a simple job to pay for school--toxic waste disposal.
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A chemistry set is the perfect opportunity for Nate Charles Troisi to connect with his engineer father.
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When reporters call to cover David Moinina Sengeh's work, that should be a good thing, but it depends on what story they want to tell.
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Virendra Singh is responsible for carrying on his family's farm, but he begs his parents to be allowed to go to school.
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Suze Kundu is forced to abandon dancing for materials science, until materials science comes to the rescue.
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Married young and used to giving up her own dreams, Iranian student Matineh Eybpoosh moves to the U.S. to study civil engineering—and a whole new world opens up.
Read MoreAinissa Ramirez: Science Vs Football
Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez never connected with her brothers' love of football until she unexpectedly ends up writing a book about it.
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Doomed to be the waterboy after tearing his ACL, engineering student Baratunde Cola is determined to make it back to his college's football team.
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