While serving on a diversity panel, biologist Latasha Wright is asked if representation in STEM matters, prompting her to reflect on her experiences, and LFC’s childhood experiences with nature – and with bigotry – come together to inform her career in environmentalism.
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Fangfang Ruose fears that her prosthetic legs will exclude her from becoming a fashion model, and when engineering student Devan Sandiford runs into an old friend from his former college, he desperately wants her to think he’s cool
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After Tony Dahlman plucks up the courage to ask out a fellow statistician, he consults the Survey Administration Manual for guidance on how to construct the perfect date, and when engineering student Heather Monigan asks liberal arts major Michael Berger on a date he’s completely unaware that she's interested in him.
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Growing up in Ghana, Pauline Owusu-Ansah hides her secret desire to study lizards, and Saad Sarwana’s secret identity as a standup comedian threatens to ruin his burgeoning physics career.
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