dissertation

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He married Catherine Sears in 1967, shortly before finishing his dissertation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

High schoolers who submitted research projects appeared on video and were interviewed by an artificial intelligence-powered voice that peppered them with questions about their papers and experiments, akin to a dissertation defense.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026

These outcomes raise concerns, said Giwon Bahg, who conducted the work as part of his doctoral dissertation in psychology at The Ohio State University.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2025

She studied history and French at the University of Manchester, writing a final year dissertation on peculiar uses of photography in 19th Century Paris.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

Since January he’d been working at home, trying to complete the final chapters of his dissertation on agrarian revolts in India.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri