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, ...

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has awarded Dissertation Research Grants to sixteen doctoral candidates. The award, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation, enables our scholars to conduct ...

Note: The following guidelines are for use within the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB). They are congruent with School of Graduate studies guidelines. It is important to note that all PhD ...

There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

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Deeth Ellis, Simmons University, has been awarded the 2026 Jesse H. Shera Award for the Support of Dissertation Research for her proposal, "Examining the Enactment of School Librarian Leadership ...