The California Code of Regulations: Title 5 Education, Section 40510 defines a thesis as: The written product of a systematic study of a significant problem. It identifies the problem, states the ...

Katie Kennedy traveled to the Himalayas to study 250-year-old bridges made from living tree roots. Hans Hanley built a tool to close a loophole in online privacy. Meagan Yeh evaluated material for ...

The honors thesis is a long-standing tradition in honors programs and colleges, including the Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University. An honors thesis is defined as an original work of ...

*Updated as of Jan. 6, 2026: Since the Spring 2026 dissertation deadline to hold the defense lands during Spring Break, we modified the dissertation deadlines for Spring 2026 in an effort to make the ...

Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. During her free time she writes about microbiology-related topics at microbematters.org, kdshives.com, and on Twitter ...

Ryan Cole, Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate. The Department of Mechanical Engineering has awarded PhD candidate Ryan Cole this year’s Outstanding Dissertation Award. Cole, who will be graduating ...

This document was created as a resource to assist senior mechanical engineering students at Santa Clara University in identifying and navigating ethical considerations that arise over the course of ...

This award recognizes the best dissertation (excellence of research, topical importance and presentation in the written dissertation) among students completing PhD degree requirements during a ...

Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. In the sticky, sweltering heat of late summer, I wrote a little ...

For sixth-year English PhD student Yi He, teaching and learning are intertwined. For her dissertation, not only is she writing a series of essays about her research topic, Puritan media; she’s also ...