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PhD



NOUN
doctor's degree
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“An uptick in the unemployment rate for workers with doctorate degrees may be tied to an oversupply of PhD graduates and a limited number of tenure-track professorships within institutions of higher education,” the report noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

"We've shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain," said Kyle Loh, PhD, associate professor of developmental biology.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The research team, led by the laboratory of senior and co-corresponding author João Passos, PhD, a professor of Physiology at Mayo Clinic, set out to identify the molecular processes that drive SASP.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

His friend Javier, a PhD engineering student, barely takes his eyes off the track.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

David became a psychologist, earning a PhD in 1986 from Texas Tech University, and, eventually, becoming an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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