Carolyn Trietsch recently defended her Ph.D. in entomology at Penn State. You can view her website or follow her on Twitter @carolyntrietsch. I just finished my Ph.D. and, over the last few months, ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Department offers a Master of Arts (MA) a Master of Science (MS) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics. For the MA ...

The senior thesis requires a considerable time investment, discipline and focus, and therefore is only undertaken by a few students each year. When considering whether to undertake an honors thesis, a ...

The Senior Thesis provides students with the opportunity to take their studies beyond the regular classroom. They are ideal for students who are motivated by academic curiosity and intellectual ...

When I served as the founding vice dean of George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, now the Schar School of Policy and Government, my portfolio could best be described as everything the dean ...

The most important goal of the Biological Sciences graduate programs is excellence in research training, mentorship, and discoveries. The main purpose of this policy is to set norms or expectations ...