grad student

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In some regards this narrator, a husband and father, is Mr. Lerner’s most mature alter ego, but he often seems like the same schlemiel as the feckless grad student in “Leaving the Atocha Station.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

That’s where he meets struggling grad student Kip Grady.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

As a zit-faced grad student, I started a new research project that used lactic acid bacteria, or LAB, as a method for food safety.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

Told in an elliptical style with novelistic chapters, the story follows Agnes, a literature grad student turned junior professor at a small liberal arts college who is struggling to move forward from a traumatic event.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Probably my favorite thing, other than joking around with my team, was when an astrophysics grad student from the University of Central Florida came to speak.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas