grad student

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One grad student recently shared her plan to dye her hair pink for a career fair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

As a zit-faced grad student, I started a new research project that used lactic acid bacteria, or LAB, as a method for food safety.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

Told in an elliptical style with novelistic chapters, the story follows Agnes, a literature grad student turned junior professor at a small liberal arts college who is struggling to move forward from a traumatic event.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

"Tara is now focused on applied work helping people, using many of the skills acquired as a grad student while investigating wildlife health on a continental scale," Primack says.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

Further enticement was provided by a beautiful psychology grad student named Julia Mae Green, who after graduation would be returning to her native Virginia.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly