The Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University follows all of the Graduate College policies regarding the doctoral dissertation procedures. The doctoral dissertation: Is an unpublished ...

Friday, May 1, 2026 Deadline to schedule dissertation defense for Summer I 2026 graduation Friday, May 15, 2026 Last day for doctoral candidates to hold dissertation defense for Summer I 2026 Friday, ...

Embarking on a PhD is “probably the most challenging task that a young scholar attempts to do”, write Mark Stephan Felix and Ian Smith in their practical guide to dissertation and thesis writing.

Note: The following guidelines are for use within the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB). They are congruent with School of Graduate studies guidelines. It is important to note that all PhD ...

The one-stop shop for anyone wanting to read completed dissertations is the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text Database. While working with this resource during this summer, I noticed ...

In order to complete the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the student must write and publish a doctoral dissertation which is approved by the Faculty after a public examination. These changes have been ...

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today announced that Dor Minzer receives the 2019 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “On Monotonicity Testing and the 2-to-2-Games ...

Though page number is obviously far less important than the content and quality of one’s work, it is nevertheless very common for PhD candidates to obsess over the length of their theses. How many ...

A doctoral dissertation must consist of peer-reviewed scholarly publications or manuscripts accepted for publication, as well as a summarising report on the said documents (an article-based ...