Studies show students in the United States are not as math and science literate as students in other comparable countries.But at least one college professor at Shepherd University is on a mission to make science more exciting and as Cecelia Mason reports the school has a state of the art research telescope to help him do that.

Doctor Jason Best is an astrophysicist who has dreamed of being an astronomer since he was a small child. For 14 years he’s enthusiastically guided students at Shepherd through classes. Best dresses in T-shirts with scientific themes and offers lectures sprinkled with Shakespearean language as he invokes popular culture and science fiction to get his points across. 

This Week in West Virginia our Mountain State Science series continues with a report by Cecelia Mason on Dr. Best and his work at Shepherd.  

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