grad student

Example Sentences

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He looks more like a Columbia grad student than the stereotypical bearded revolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

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

Both an author and a grad student at Columbia now, I affected an outerborough inflection at readings and in interviews that had become thick enough to require subtitles.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times