Academic Dissertations in the News

The yield curve model was originally developed by Canadian economist Campbell Harvey while he was completing his dissertation. In the three recessions since his dissertation was published, including the 2008 financial crisis, the curve was inverted before each one.

Harvey is “very confident” the current inverted curve could be indicative of another recession on the horizon.

Read more at GlobalNews.ca

While much of the country has been busy legalizing lower-case marijuana, the woman born into the name has built a successful life.

Read more at Journal Sentinel.

Twenty years ago, my mother called a computer science professor to settle an argument about chemistry.... I knew I would be defending my thesis. I didn’t realize that Ethan literally planned to attack me.

Read more at medium.com

Jämsä extensively studied the topic for his doctoral dissertation and said that converting algae into biodiesel would also help clean wastewater.

Read more at http://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2019/05/27/finland-algae-biofuel-production-research/

Katerina Tikhonova, who is said to be the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, defended her dissertation at Moscow State University on May 24. Cameras were not present when she spoke, but a Current Time journalist filmed her speaking on his mobile phone.

Read more at https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-daughter/29961480.html

Hampshire's Brewing Science Laboratory are using the Smuttynose Island tavern, discovered through archaeological excavations beginning in 2009, and further detailed in a more recent dissertation from a PhD student, as inspiration for a "history beer" project. They're now in the process of brewing a beer that "would have" been drank at the 1600s tavern, based on extensive research from that time, and using both George Washington and Ben Franklin's handwritten beer recipes.

Read more at https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article230738459.html

Why the old adage is still useful. By Katie Shives

Read more at InsideHigherEd.com

Prioritizing research quality over speed. By Wendy Robinson

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In her dissertation, Lotta Selin, a midwife, studied data on a total of 2,775 births in Sweden. She has focused on the risk and outcomes of delayed labor and how augmentation of labor with oxytocin is managed.

She found that delayed labor increases the risk of a cesarean section, even among women who receive oxytocin for augmentation of labor. The rate of cesarean section among first-time mothers is not reduced if the administered dose is doubled either, according to a dissertation from Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Read more at www.news-medical.net

Some advice to help you push through the stress during the final stages of your dissertation by Megan Poorman

Read the article at InsideHigherEd.com