dissertation
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When Gleick wrote his dissertation at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, he examined a range of climate scenarios and analyzed how rising temperatures would likely change the timing of runoff in Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
The deaths of her grandparents in quick succession left her so distraught — they had raised her — that she never finished her dissertation.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
Zosia Cooper, 40, has been researching why Gen Z is investing at higher rates than their predecessors for her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of California, San Diego.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
Meanwhile Caroline Cronjaeger, a 25-year-old student, is writing her dissertation on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - a book she found on YouTube.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
This is a huge question, probably the subject of many a dissertation in the field of industrial psychology, and here I can only comment on the things I observed.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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