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Although grandparents have always been involved in the care of their grandchildren, a growing number of grandparents are now responsible for raising their grandchildren. We visit the home of a parenting grandparent and speak with an expert about the needs and experiences of this growing family form. In this segment we look at a program that helps foster youth make the transition into college, and we hear from those students about their experiences. Dr. Aswini Pradhan is a leading scientist in the field of nanotechnology and has done pioneering research in India, Japan, and England. In this segment, we visit Dr. Pradhan's lab, where for more than a decade, he's been mentoring primarily underrepresented minority students who go on to have high-tech careers in fields like renewable energy and medicine. Getting people to talk about their trauma is an essential part of healing. We talk with the creators of Counselors Without Borders, who used talk therapy in their relief work following disasters in Thailand, Myanmar, Haiti, and New Orleans. A new study finds that widows and widowers experience less emotional and physical pain than their married, divorced, or single counterparts. In this segment, we talk with an expert about the experience of growing up biracial.
