Growing up in Pakistan, Salman Hameed falls in love with the mysteries of the universe when he stumbles upon Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and as Zuri Sullivan pursues her dream of becoming an immunologist at Harvard, she begins to worry that she’s being “weeded out.”
Read MoreA Little Help: Stories about needing support
Jitesh Jaggi keeps his struggle with trichotillomania a secret, until one day his wife catches him in the act, when Devan Sandiford finally decides to seek therapy, he finds it more difficult than expected.
Read MoreRespect: Stories about demanding to be seen
Meisa Salaita’s brand-new PhD in chemistry isn’t much help as she prepares to teach ninth-grade physics, and early in her career, astronomer Jackie Faherty’s work is stunned when a senior researcher eviscerates her work at a conference
Read MoreHuman Reproduction: Stories about how we learn about sex
Kate Willet is frustrated by the gaps of information in her abstinence-based sex ed class, and sex ed instructor Charlie Blake fields an unexpected question from a student.
Read MoreLooking the Part: Stories about what a scientist looks like
After switching majors to anthropology, Edith Gonzalez struggles to dress like an archaeologist, and at seven years old, Brianna A. Baker gets confronted with some uncomfortable realities of being the only Black girl in her class.
Read MoreBecoming a Scientist: Stories about what it means to be a scientist
Andrea Jones-Rooy quits her job as a scientist in order to become a scientist, and while studying flying foxes in Indonesia, Susan Tsang gets caught in a rainstorm that changes her relationship to field work.
Read MoreNot Alone: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project
After her child is finally diagnosed with Hermansky Pudlock Syndome, Donna Appell set off on a mission to make sure other parents have the information she didn’t, and feeling unmoored after she’s diagnosed with LFS, Jenn Perry attends a patient conference that changes her life.
Read MoreInspiring: Stories about telling #MyScienceStory
On her first day as a music therapist, Jude Treder-Wolff realizes the job isn’t what she expected, and after witnessing tragedy as a child, Mani-Jade Garcia stops speaking
Read MoreApprentices: Stories about mentors who shaped us
Fresh out of college, Stephanie Keep is hired to be the assistant to legendary evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, and at age fourteen, Fabrizzio Subia begins assisting a local dentist in treating undocumented patients.
Read MoreWhat Now?: Stories about coping after loss
Lawrence Green wakes up in a hospital room to find that he’s sustained devastating injuries in a motorcycle accident, and after tragedy strikes her family, Camille Adams Jones must find a way to confront her own trauma.
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