This past July I successfully defended my dissertation to a room full of family, friends, colleagues, and my committee. It went by in a blur. The projector failed right as I was supposed to start, and ...

Megan Poorman recently completed her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CU Boulder and associate of NIST. You can find her on ...

For many early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences, it’s just a given: You turn your dissertation into a book. Not only that, but you begin doing so the moment you complete the Ph.D.

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In March, mid-lockdown, I needed to write the introduction to my PhD thesis. I went at it with all guns blazing. I downloaded Mendeley, a reference-management program, to arrange my papers in a more ...

, 58, won honorable mention in the 2007 Community Literary Awards competition, sponsored by the Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo Public Library, Portage District Library and area independent book sellers.

I'm hunkering down and starting a literature search for my dissertation. There's a couple questions going around in my head, that I figured some of ya'll might have first hand experience with. I'm in ...

Of all the mysteries in graduate school, the greatest may be the dissertation committee. When it works well, it offers academics an opportunity to shape both burgeoning scholars and future research in ...