PhD

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Abigail Dow, an applied microeconomist and PhD candidate in economics at Boston University, underscored the correlation between childcare costs and people’s decisions to have children in a recent research paper.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

"It's very exciting as a scientist to find something unexpected like this that we weren't looking for," said Daniel Katz, CU Boulder chemistry PhD student and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

The first authors of the study were graduate student Zicheng Wang, MS, and postdoctoral fellow Lei Wang, PhD, both in Epidemiology.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

She holds a PhD in creative writing and literature from USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Harold Urey, a Berkeley chemistry PhD working at Columbia, had set out to identify a heavy isotope of hydrogen that had been postulated by Raymond Birge, among others.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik