Everyone’s Zoom box looks to be on mute. All eyes in the virtual space are focused attentively on the student presenter. The last five years of coursework and long nights writing have come down to ...

Noting the intersection of Zhou's topic and the technology used to bring committee members together, Campbell described the event as "truly a 21st century dissertation defense." Zhou concurred, ...

I never had a dissertation defense. My department had abolished them sometime before I arrived as a graduate student, and I considered myself lucky compared with friends at other universities who had ...