Everyone’s Zoom box looks to be on mute. All eyes in the virtual space are focused attentively on the student presenter. The last five years of coursework and long nights writing have come down to ...

The final examination for a Ph.D. candidate is an oral defense which includes a presentation of the student's thesis research and is followed immediately by a meeting with the student's thesis ...

Proposal must be at least one year before the final defense, since this shows the feasibility of the project and the committee’s buy in. Needs to be addressed in the yearly meeting with student.

A senior defense is an opportunity for you to share your thesis with your advisor, secondary advisor and reader(s). The purpose of a defense is to celebrate your work, reflect upon your creative and ...

Early in my career, I sat on a doctoral committee in a field outside my discipline for the first time. I recall being startled at the dissertation defense when professors in the young man’s department ...

Wendy Robinson is a doctoral candidate at Iowa State University. You can connect with her on Twitter @wendyrmonkey. As I write this, I am four days away from my dissertation defense. A year’s worth of ...

Last week, Prof Hacker Lee Skallerup Bessette drove to Virginia Commonwealth University to livetweet the thesis defense of Laura Gogia (in some circles better known by her Twitter handle ...