dissertation

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“We postponed our honeymoon trip to the summer because of dissertation work, and then had to repostpone it because the work kept not finishing,” he said in a biography page on the Nobel website.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 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

At university in Birmingham, he is finishing a Masters dissertation on second homes and the effectiveness of new developments in Cornwall - an issue close to his heart.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 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

There’s a third thing worth celebrating but which she hasn’t mentioned— she’s been awarded a research fellowship to work on her dissertation in France for the year.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri