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

Pat Apap, a graduate assistant at NYU, helped plan kitten therapy for grad student appreciation week.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025

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

But I still feel a sense of pride that he wants me, this lowly grad student; maybe this is what it really means to date in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

Standing next to her was Ayana, the UCF grad student who’d talked about astronomy at camp.

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