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About That Dissertation: On being the media’s villain of the week

21 May 2013

by Jason Richwine

Although my Ph.D. dissertation was about immigration, I was hired by the Heritage Foundation in 2010 to be a jack-of-all-trades quantitative analyst. . . . So what is actually in the dissertation? The dissertation shows that recent immigrants score lower than U.S.-born whites on many different types of IQ tests. Using statistical analysis, it suggests that the test-score differential is due primarily to a real cognitive gap rather than to culture or language bias. It analyzes how this cognitive gap could affect socioeconomic assimilation, and it concludes by exploring how IQ selection might be incorporated, as one factor among many, into immigration policy. read more

Advising the Dissertation Student Who Won't Finish

18 May 2013

by Leonard Cassuto
A former graduate student wrote me a note a few months ago to thank me for helping him drop out. What's wrong with that picture? Nothing, except that we don't see it often enough. . . .
• If you love them, let them go freely.
• Advise the student, not just the dissertation.
• Understand the power of your approval.
• ABD does not equal failure. read more

This Passes for a Harvard Dissertation?

15 May 2013

This week, the Heritage Foundation released a deeply flawed immigration study, debunked by none other than the conservative Cato Institute. It then came to light that one of the co-authors, Jason Richwine wrote his PhD dissertation, IQs and Immigration Policy, on how immigrants tend to have lower IQs than White Americans and only high IQ immigrants should be let in. read more

English Ph.D. student receives Fulbright to research for novel

24 April 2013

Nyikos, an English Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, won a Fulbright for the 2013-14 academic year. read more

Harvard Ph.D. candidate hopes to dispel common myths about online dating in dissertation.

23 April 2013

Holly Michelle Wood, 27, a graduate student studying sociology at Harvard’s school of Arts and Sciences, is writing her dissertation on “the modern trials of being single” in the city with an aim at cracking into what people emotionally experience in the dating scene when trying to find the perfect match. read more

Doctoral dissertation studies the use of light in measuring cerebral circulation

22 April 2013

Tiina Näsi, a researcher of biomedical engineering at Aalto University, studied in her doctoral thesis the use of light in measuring the brain's blood circulation. This optical measurement may in the future help discover the cause of sleep disorders as well as their close connection with cardiovascular diseases. The method is currently being tested in a hospital. read more

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