doctorate
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That leaves out a few key details: The Salt Lake City native has applied to thousands of jobs since he graduated from Princeton in 2024 with his doctorate in chemical engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri, earning a doctorate of osteopathic medicine—or D.O.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Johnson completed her master's degree at Penn State and is now pursuing a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
A physicist by training, Amodei turned to biology for his doctorate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
By this point he had almost finished his doctorate at Cornell and had been selected for Holmberg’s project.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
Recipients of honorary doctorates tend not to use the Dr honorific despite technically being able to out of deference to those who have undertaken the academic work to receive a PhD.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
At one point, he testified in court, he was enrolled in 19 universities at once, pursuing five doctorates simultaneously.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
In fact, of 739 doctorates in mathematics awarded by American universities in 1986-87, slightly less than half, only 362, were conferred on United States citizens.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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