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Episode 7 - Come Home, Daddy

Twenty-two years ago a crime took place in the middle of the night. It left a 5-year-old with scars and without her father. As she grew up, Katie Haught wanted the justice system to know the truth about her dad.

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Ali Rezai

The Future of Healing the Brain

Dr. Ali Rezai's methods of treating neurological disorders sound like mere science fiction. But they're not.

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Scott Bowdridge

The Man Helping Save America's Sheep

Professor Scott Bowdridge has spent his entire adult life studying a parasite killing sheep. He may have just figured out how to stop it.

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Healing Without The High

Steven Kinsey is finding ways to treat neuropathic pain with cannabis - safely and without the high, man.

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A Dream of Mars

One of the finest amateur robot minds outside of NASA has put WVU's robotics program on the map.

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Jennifer Gallagher holds up a Petri dish of yeast.

My Cousin Yeast

Four years after a coal-washing chemical spilled into West Virginia's Elk River, this geneticist is still unraveling the question of "What does this stuff do?"

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Rodney Williams

The Startup to Watch

This young alum is a tech entrepreneur who developed a protocol that transmits data over audio.

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Saiph Savage among plastic robots

Humans and Computers

For Saiph Savage, the intersection of humans and computers is as much an exploration of sociology and psychology as it is numbers and data.

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Candice Brown

One Size Does Not Fit All

Candice Brown explores the biological gender differences in sepsis patients.

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Fighting Opioids

WVU professors are on the frontlines of combatting the opioid crisis.

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Episode 6 - Fourth-Grade Scientists

Two college students arrived at a school gym and showed young children how water works. By the end of it, the kids knew that water doesn't keep itself clean. And that science is this thing that West Virginians do all the time. And they can do it, too.

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Depiction of Woodburn hall, mountains, gas well and downtown in origami.

How to Remake a State

Some look at where we've been. We look at what's ahead. Here's what drives West Virginia forward.

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