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 ...

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 ...

The School of Criminology and Justice Studies is proud to announce a Dissertation Proposal Defense by Catherine Stevens entitled, "Implementing Refuge Policy under Constraint: A Massachusetts Case ...

2. Alireza Amirkhizi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, UMass Lowell 3. Jinde Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor ...

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 ...