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
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
"I'm including historical east coast wolves in a separate chapter of my dissertation comparing skull morphology between coastal and inland populations," he says.
From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026
She speaks of her students, the topic for the dissertation she plans to write, about twentieth-century francophone poets from Algeria.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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