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.

Strategies for writing a PhD dissertation: write before you’re ‘ready’ Reading isn’t writing, and knowing about your topic isn’t writing. So, what should graduate students do to get started and make ...

Do you know what one of the most crucial aspects of a startup is? It’s a pitch for future investors where you explain all the benefits of your idea and the reasons it will work. A dissertation ...

Do you have any suggestions for motivating graduate students to meet their dissertation-writing deadlines? I'm working with several bright and energetic students, but they all have difficulty meeting ...

On a recent August morning on the seventh floor of the Merchandise Mart, 20 advanced graduate students sat in what must have been the quietest room in the entire city of Chicago. Except for the ...

The artist Stephen Wiltshire specializes in panoramic cityscapes. After being commissioned, Wiltshire will view a city during a brief helicopter flight. Then, working entirely from memory, he will ...

Graduate students in the English department were alarmed earlier this week by an e-mail announcing that the department would offer half as many dissertation write-up fellowships next year due to new ...