doctoral degree

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She graduated summa cum laude from Michigan, earned her doctoral degree at MIT, where she first started her work on black hole imaging in 2013, then became a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

When Dorothy Jean Tillman II successfully defended her dissertation in November 2023 to earn her doctoral degree from Arizona State University, she couldn’t wait to share the news with her best friend.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

In 2013, Black publicly renounced their former ideology and now speaks out publicly against it, while also pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Chicago researching proto-racism in early medieval intellectual history.

From Slate • May 18, 2024

Erdman’s interest in the relationships between animals and humans began in the 1980s when she was pursuing her doctoral degree in counseling.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

A master’s degree can substitute for one year; a doctoral degree can replace all three years.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson