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Earning a doctorate is a noble pursuit, but what can you do with it? As it turns out, almost anything! Follow along as three students pursuing doctoral degrees take a cross-country road trip to explore how doctors of music, medicine, and more are applying their research to solve real-world problems, using their degrees to create lives that they love.
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Stories from a nonprofit director, a teacher, and a startup CEO in Austin.
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El Paso to Abilene: the roadtrippers talk career callings with a pilot and a pediatrician.
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After an interview with Governor David Y. Ige, the road trip comes to a close.
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The road-trippers reach Oʻahu, their trip’s third and final island destination.
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The road-trippers travel to the island of Maui and visit a humpback whale sanctuary.
The journey begins; the students interview two Hawaiian residents working in the sciences.
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The end of the journey, with GoldieBlox’s Debbie Sterling and MythBusters’ Kari Byron.
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NASA’s largest rocket engine test facility, and engineer and designer Leah Buechley.
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Stories from engineer Katherine Kuchenbecker, artist Zaria Forman, CEO Jewel Burks.
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The road trip begins with Harvard professor Evelynn Hammonds and artist Janet Echelman.
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As their trip comes to an end, the team reflects on everything they learned along the way.
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The team has an action-packed week highlighted by stops in Las Vegas, Denver, and Chicago.