What is "doctoral"

Usage examples of "doctoral".

The first time he went to take his exam, Isailo Suk was relieved to see that the head of the examining board was an instructor from his faculty, who had recently taken his doctoral orals before a commission Suk himself had chaired, and whom he often saw through the window sitting in the Third Boot Tavern.

And I might go on to show in some detail that a doctoral investigation in the humanities, when the subject is well chosen, serves the same purpose in the education of a student of language and literature as the independent, intensive study of a living or a fossil animal, when prescribed by Agassiz to a beginner in natural science.

She was an astrogeologist who had done her doctoral thesis on comet formation.

Minutes later, Bartlesmann, the recipient of the prize for medicine, pointed out from the same South Lawn podium that Engler had cut the Federal science budget in half, and killed the program under which Bartlesmann himself had received his doctoral training.

In a letter to the Guggenheim Foundation recommending Pitts for one of their prized fellowships to support his doctoral work, similar to the one Wiener himself had won as a young postdoc two decades before, Wiener sang the praises of his newest pupil and collaborator.

Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.

He pounded Pitts for his continuing failure to deliver his dissertation, and for shirking his responsibilities to MIT and the Guggenheim Foundation to complete his protracted doctoral program.

Mitsubishi, and also managed the revenues from all his previous patents, plus of course drank himself blind on a daily basis and then needed at least two hours to sit there naked under a scratchy blanket and shake, and went around impersonating various kinds of health-care professionals during the periods he believed he was a health-care professional, from when he had the delirium-tremen-type career delusions, and in his spare time made in-depth documentaries and a dozen art-films that people are still writing doctoral theses on.

Boulder, she from Washington, and just as John was completing his doctoral thesis he received notice of his next assignment: Test Pilot School, Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland.

British Columbia to study at Ryukyu University and complete her doctoral thesis on Micronesian cultures, searching for clues to the origins and migration patterns of the early Polynesians.

Gordon swinging between finishing his doctoral work and getting lured by the government into the supersecret Project Star, during the years the Iron Curtain still blocked off the East.

James Cozzano had spent most of the spring and summer following the primary campaigns as part of a research project for his doctoral dissertation.

My doctoral thesis will concern the use of ciphers by security forces on the Inner Frontier.

Just researchers and doctoral candidates, or the occasional wealthy patron with an interest in the history of science.

With access to the university library's checkout records, she had compared a random dozen doctoral candidates' dissertations in progress with the sources cited in their bibliographies and footnotes.