PhD
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“I had never been in a casino. I have a PhD in modern thought and literature from Stanford,” says Sarris.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Damian and his PhD student Danny Walmsley spend about 15 minutes wiring me up as I slowly morph into some kind of partially robotic lifeform.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
In 1945, he quit music to attend New York University, where he would eventually earn a PhD in economics.
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
"The real novel piece is that we looked at these transactional relations," said Kelly Gair, a PhD student at Binghamton and lead author of the paper.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
One of the NTSB’s leading black-box specialists is a gangly fiftyish PhD psychologist named Malcolm Brenner, and Brenner was one of the investigators into the Korean Air crash in Guam.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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