dissertation

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In his doctoral dissertation, researcher Zhe Zhu explored how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini are changing workplaces and influencing employees' experiences on the job.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

Critics dug out and posted his dissertation, which was pilloried by other academics for a simplistic chart that placed terrorism on a spectrum somewhere between “peacekeeping” and “thermonuclear war.”

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

At a time when few museums had contemporary art departments — “you couldn’t write a dissertation on a living artist,” Schaffner notes — Harris Norton funded the scaffolding that would sustain the artists she collected.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

“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

I asked if they were concerned about the fact that I hadn’t yet finished my dissertation.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez