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Mr. Louis-Klein is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at McGill University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
AI's ability to conjure up speedy responses to all kinds of questions "removes learning opportunities" from users, said Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student Grace Liu, the article's main author.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
It combined biological research conducted by Dr. Shahid Khan during his doctoral studies with computational and statistical analysis developed by Dr. Satyaki Roy, professor of mathematical sciences, along with contributions from graduate student Owen Trippany.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
In the late 1990s, Maura Gillison, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University who was then in her early 30s and little known in the field, sought to resolve the debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
All of this was important, the stuff of historians’ arguments and doctoral dissertations, but Dobyns was thinking of something else.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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