Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. Her writing can be found on her portfolio site, kdshives.com. Anyone pursuing a graduate degree has experienced the ...

My dissertation — all two volumes and 750 or so bound pages of it — sits on a shelf in my office and could be accurately characterized as both a success and a failure. On the one hand, the completed ...

Some graduate students at Ohio State University are resisting a new policy requiring them to submit their doctoral dissertations electronically so that they can be posted online. The students say they ...