doctorate
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He later earned a Columbia University medical degree and a doctorate in public health at Oxford University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Kohberger was a criminology doctorate student at a different institution, Washington State University.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Gong has since earned his doctorate from U-M and now works in Chicago as a machine learning scientist.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Helton, who has a doctorate in education, said she is highly skilled and trustworthy.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
He had gone to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to get his doctorate, had joined the Haganah and been killed trying to get a convoy through to Jerusalem.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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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
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa and Belle and Sebastian singer Stuart Murdoch are to receive honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow later this year.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Although Brian went away to USC for college — he eventually earned doctorates in education and law — he returned to Altadena in 1991 and bought a home of his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 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
As this was much shorter than the figure proposed by such eminent theoreticians as Niels Bohr, the results represented a gutsy challenge from two young scientists with the ink barely dry on their doctorates.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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