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 ...

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 ...

From a presentation in the recent annual Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars (DEGS) Conference to an end-of-year thesis defense, there is one thing that many graduate students may find themselves ...

“Can you move the computer closer?” asks a disembodied voice. “Because we see a lot of roof.” “Ah, I think it looks much better,” another invisible person says a few minutes later, following ...

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 had ...

A doctoral student writes a dissertation based upon original investigation and showing mature scholarship and critical judgment as well as familiarity with tools and methods of research. The subject ...