I never had a dissertation defense. My department had abolished them sometime before I arrived as a graduate student, and I considered myself lucky compared with friends at other universities who ...

each master of science and doctoral candidate must successfully defend the thesis or dissertation. The objectives of the defense examination are (1) to probe the validity and significance of the data ...

Candace Hall's three kids delivered a choreographed routine. One mom’s sigh of relief when she finished her dissertation defense quickly turned into a moment of shock thanks to a sweet surprise ...

The dissertation is a repeatable process, so when starting out, create templates for aspects of the process that do not change. For example, if you know you will need to send an email to the committee ...

Friday, May 16, 2025 Last day for doctoral candidates to hold dissertation defense for Summer I 2025 Friday, May 23, 2025 Defended dissertations due in the Graduate College for Summer I 2025 ...

This thesis demonstrates the Scanning Tunneling Microscopic (STM)-assisted break junction method to detect coronavirus biomarker sequences, ranging from the whole human coronavirus family to ...

Consistency in disulfide bonding structure is paramount for the quality of protein therapeutics. Disulfide bonds, arising from the interaction of sulfhydryl functional groups in cysteine residues, are ...

The body of the thesis may then be relatively short, describing the overall motivation, hypotheses, tools, highlights of results (including any results not in the appendices), and conclusions.

The final grade is withheld until the dissertation is completed. In progress (IP) grades are assigned during each semester until the defense is successfully completed and the final copy of the ...