grad student

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The Columbia University grad student was recently in a “situationship”—Gen Z’s term for a romantic entanglement that exists somewhere between friendship and a relationship—with a man who initially expressed admiration for her achievements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

As a zit-faced grad student, I started a new research project that used lactic acid bacteria, or LAB, as a method for food safety.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

But I still feel a sense of pride that he wants me, this lowly grad student; maybe this is what it really means to date in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

"Tara is now focused on applied work helping people, using many of the skills acquired as a grad student while investigating wildlife health on a continental scale," Primack says.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

Standing next to her was Ayana, the UCF grad student who’d talked about astronomy at camp.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas