dissertation
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On July 21, 2026, Nathan Cofnas, an American philosopher working at Ghent University in Belgium, wrote a Substack post detailing how he submitted Arday’s 2015 dissertation to Copyleaks, a plagiarism detection platform.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
They included that multiple sections of his doctoral dissertation were copied from other works.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
For the past 14 years, Miles Krzelewski, a doctoral student at an unspecified California university, has been struggling to complete his dissertation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Known as an innovative and enthusiastic coach, Barry also specialises in set-pieces and he wrote a dissertation as part of his Pro Licence for which he analysed 17,000 throw-ins.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
I asked if they were concerned about the fact that I hadn’t yet finished my dissertation.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Since its introduction, fifteen dissertations and final theses at Freie Universität have focused on the topic, along with seven additional dissertations completed by researchers in other countries.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
After studying neuroscience and writing two dissertations, she was off to Stanford for a law degree and math Ph.D.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
John Warnock wrote one of the shortest PhD dissertations in history, then changed the world of publishing and printing as co-founder of Adobe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
All of this was important, the stuff of historians’ arguments and doctoral dissertations, but Dobyns was thinking of something else.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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