dissertation

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When Gleick wrote his dissertation at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, he examined a range of climate scenarios and analyzed how rising temperatures would likely change the timing of runoff in Northern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The deaths of her grandparents in quick succession left her so distraught — they had raised her — that she never finished her dissertation.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

She was hired by Bank of America while still working on her dissertation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"I'm including historical east coast wolves in a separate chapter of my dissertation comparing skull morphology between coastal and inland populations," he says.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

She speaks of her students, the topic for the dissertation she plans to write, about twentieth-century francophone poets from Algeria.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri