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Welcome to the science podcast for February 14th, 2020.

I'm Sarah Crespi. On this week's show,

senior correspondent Jeffrey Mervis joins us to talk about a cluster hiring initiative. This is when

you hire a group of faculty all at once that's sponsored by the NIH and has the aim of increasing

diversity. And researcher Pierre Gagnapad is here to discuss the role of memory suppression in PTSD

and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Could being good at suppressing memories actually protect people from PTSD.

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