There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

You’ve completed the coursework of your graduate programme and passed your comprehensive exams with flying colours. You know the literature, you have a novel idea, and you have collected preliminary ...

Do you know what one of the most crucial aspects of a startup is? It’s a pitch for future investors where you explain all the benefits of your idea and the reasons it will work. A dissertation ...

On a recent August morning on the seventh floor of the Merchandise Mart, 20 advanced graduate students sat in what must have been the quietest room in the entire city of Chicago. Except for the ...

Do you have any suggestions for motivating graduate students to meet their dissertation-writing deadlines? I'm working with several bright and energetic students, but they all have difficulty meeting ...