doctorate
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Young Cheol Kim, who completed his doctorate in geosciences at Penn State this summer, explained that monitoring the volcano continuously is essential for distinguishing normal activity from changes that might signal increasing volcanic hazards.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Freud spoke to BBC Radio Suffolk on Monday, after she received an honorary doctorate for her work in film and broadcasting at the University of Suffolk on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
A physicist by training, Amodei turned to biology for his doctorate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We learned nothing from social media,” said Nataliya Kosmyna, a visiting researcher at Google with a doctorate in human-computer interactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Myself and one very smart guy, much smarter than me, I should say” — a wondering shake of the head here — “who got his doctorate from MIT.”
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
That is the entire story, and there are people with doctorates who cannot say it out loud.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The International Mathematical Union awarded its Fields Medal on Thursday at a ceremony in Philadelphia to four people, including Yu Deng and Hong Wang, who both attended Peking University before earning doctorates in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They were awarded honorary doctorates by Coventry University in 2024 in recognition of their efforts.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Lifetime Achievement Award and honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
He talked often of how he could not go to university because he had to find a job to support his siblings, and how people he was cleverer than in secondary school now had doctorates.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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