Academic Dissertations in the News

4 July 2013

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has agreed to give a Rice University graduate student a $21,000 grant to determine why some people are interested in politics while others are not.

Read more at CNSNews.com

19 June 2013

Some anointed folk publish in top journals during their PhD and spend their lives publishing in the Leiter-top-10. Most of the rest of us presumably have very different experiences. (My only publication ever in the "top 20" is an invited one.) I want to share some of mine to give young people a sense of 'what it's like.'

Read more at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science: A group blog with people from all over the map

17 June 2013

Anna Spurlock, PhD recipient in Agricultural and Resource Economics, claimed “relief” is the best word to express her feelings after submitting her dissertation.

Read more at grad.berkeley.edu

30 May 2013

University of Georgia doctoral graduate Tom Okie was awarded the 53rd annual Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize at the annual meeting of the Society of American Historians for the best-written doctoral dissertation on an American subject. The price is $2000 and publication of the winning dissertation.

000-288 070-442GB2312 310-502 P2070-055 070-218 PEGACLSA_6-2V2 000-963 1Y0-A18 000-061 200-120 650-331 250-401 CCBA 1Z1-559 HP0-M43 3001 70-323 00M-660 310-150 000-057 C2020-625 HP2-T19 1D0-532 000-101 000-079 000-969 642-980 GB0-283-ENGLISH PW0-250 MB7-225 74-132 350-060 M2020-622 920-544 642-279 HP0-J25 642-973 70-485 HP0-S15 920-246 074-343 LOT-412 000-635 70-549 650-663 000-448 HP5-K01D NS0-102 000-750 000-579

000-001 E20-850 3100-1 BAS-010 070-297 COG-615 070-181 C4070-604 C2040-928 1Z0-042 C2010-539 70-451 70-631 642-811 000-189 070-513 C_TBIT44_73 HP2-Z09 NS0-131 920-140 HP2-E53 1Z0-527 70-647 E20-891 SCNS 070-169 E20-532 CTAL-TM_Syll2012 000-N37 000-773 70-229 70-177 E20-870 060-DSF 1Z0-141 70-519 COG-185 070-262 C2180-175 M2080-241 A2010-577 6207-1 CTAL_TM_001 050-V60X-CSEDLPS 3300 920-192 1Z0-031 1Y0-A15 642-371 4H0-004

Read more at OnlineAthens.com

24 May 2013

Chen, a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Yale University. Her dissertation, Elixir or Poison? Indian Origins and Chinese Interpretations of Buddhist Antinomian Narratives, explores the origins of antinomianism in Indian Buddhist narrative literature and the pertinent philosophical development in China.

Read more at Wesleyan Connection.

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.

000-288 070-442GB2312 310-502 P2070-055 070-218 PEGACLSA_6-2V2 000-963 1Y0-A18 000-061 200-120 650-331 250-401 CCBA 1Z1-559 HP0-M43 3001 70-323 00M-660 310-150 000-057 C2020-625 HP2-T19 1D0-532 000-101 000-079 000-969 642-980 GB0-283-ENGLISH PW0-250 MB7-225 74-132 350-060 M2020-622 920-544 642-279 HP0-J25 642-973 70-485 HP0-S15 920-246 074-343 LOT-412 000-635 70-549 650-663 000-448 HP5-K01D NS0-102 000-750 000-579

000-001 E20-850 3100-1 BAS-010 070-297 COG-615 070-181 C4070-604 C2040-928 1Z0-042 C2010-539 70-451 70-631 642-811 000-189 070-513 C_TBIT44_73 HP2-Z09 NS0-131 920-140 HP2-E53 1Z0-527 70-647 E20-891 SCNS 070-169 E20-532 CTAL-TM_Syll2012 000-N37 000-773 70-229 70-177 E20-870 060-DSF 1Z0-141 70-519 COG-185 070-262 C2180-175 M2080-241 A2010-577 6207-1 CTAL_TM_001 050-V60X-CSEDLPS 3300 920-192 1Z0-031 1Y0-A15 642-371 4H0-004

Read more at National Review

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 at Chronicle of Higher Education.

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 at Huffington Post

000-288 070-442GB2312 310-502 P2070-055 070-218 PEGACLSA_6-2V2 000-963 1Y0-A18 000-061 200-120 650-331 250-401 CCBA 1Z1-559 HP0-M43 3001 70-323 00M-660 310-150 000-057 C2020-625 HP2-T19 1D0-532 000-101 000-079 000-969 642-980 GB0-283-ENGLISH PW0-250 MB7-225 74-132 350-060 M2020-622 920-544 642-279 HP0-J25 642-973 70-485 HP0-S15 920-246 074-343 LOT-412 000-635 70-549 650-663 000-448 HP5-K01D NS0-102 000-750 000-579

000-001 E20-850 3100-1 BAS-010 070-297 COG-615 070-181 C4070-604 C2040-928 1Z0-042 C2010-539 70-451 70-631 642-811 000-189 070-513 C_TBIT44_73 HP2-Z09 NS0-131 920-140 HP2-E53 1Z0-527 70-647 E20-891 SCNS 070-169 E20-532 CTAL-TM_Syll2012 000-N37 000-773 70-229 70-177 E20-870 060-DSF 1Z0-141 70-519 COG-185 070-262 C2180-175 M2080-241 A2010-577 6207-1 CTAL_TM_001 050-V60X-CSEDLPS 3300 920-192 1Z0-031 1Y0-A15 642-371 4H0-004

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 at DailyNebraskan.com

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 at bostonmagazine.com