Navigating college, particularly at the postgraduate level, can be challenging. With over half of these students feeling considerable stress concerning their dissertations and nearly a third actively ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Writing a dissertation is, perhaps, one of the most tasking jobs for college students. The fast-paced nature of modern society has made it harder for students to spare time for completing voluminous ...

Megan Poorman recently completed her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CU Boulder and associate of NIST. You can find her on ...

This past July I successfully defended my dissertation to a room full of family, friends, colleagues, and my committee. It went by in a blur. The projector failed right as I was supposed to start, and ...