The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

When it comes to choosing a dissertation topic, students in the lab sciences have it the easiest. Because their funding comes from their adviser’s lab, their dissertations will typically be carved out ...

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in history at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne. I’m wrapping up the second year of my PhD in history, ...

Your dissertation gives you an opportunity to write a substantial piece of academic work on a topic of interest to you. It is an opportunity to produce a work of scholarship, using the academic skills ...

As a professor for nearly 15 years, I have advised more doctoral students than I care to count. I’ve had my fair share of national award winners, those who gave up and vanished, and countless students ...

The Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University follows all of the Graduate College policies regarding the doctoral dissertation procedures. The doctoral dissertation: Is an unpublished ...

Navigating college, particularly at the postgraduate level, can be challenging. With over half of these students feeling considerable stress concerning their dissertations and nearly a third actively ...

We understand that completing your final research project is both an exciting and a demanding process. In order to make this process as smooth as possible, please review this Plan I Student Checklist ...

All thesis-option graduate students at Purdue must deposit the final products of their research with the Purdue University OGSPS Thesis & Dissertation Office. The Thesis & Dissertation Office will ...

Six University of Delaware doctoral students have won dissertation prizes for outstanding work in their disciplines — including chemical engineering, art history, criminology, physics, human ...