Nov 22nd, 2008 · John Bohannon has found a way to combine the emotion of dance with the excitement of PhD dissertations: It's called the "Dance Your PhD" competition, and the winners were announced this week. Bohannon describes the best bodies in motion.
Oct 25th, 2008 · "There are a lot of S-rays," says Juan Escobar, PhD candidate in physics at UCLA. "There are enough that you can actually take a picture of your finger — an X-ray picture of your finger. It's very exciting. It's actually a little bit scary."
Jul 21st, 2008 · Here's a back-to-school story 70 years in the making. The last time retired British army Col. Michael Cobb picked up a college degree was 1938. He went back this weekend to pick up another — a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. The 91-year-old put in 18 years of research to create an atlas of British train stations.
Jul 17th, 2008 · The price of corn is at an all-time high, but farmers in Iowa are having trouble growing it. Officials say weather-related crop losses could total $4 billion. Armed with a "master's in oats and a Ph.D. in weeds," Jim Fawcett is dedicated to preventing additional losses.
Feb 9th, 2008 · In 1966, Mark Weinstein played trombone on Cuban Roots, an obscure but important fusion of Afro-Cuban folkloric music and jazz. Many years, many albums, and one Ph.D. in philosophy later, Weinstein's new album finds him playing the jazz flute.
Dec 28th, 2006 · You Tube was the Web phenomenon of 2006, but what should we expect in 2007? Melissa Block speaks with a number of tech-savvy individuals about what they think the next big thing is. Melissa talks with Danah Boyd, PhD candidate at UC-Berkeley in the School of Information and graduate fellow at the USC Annenberg Center.
Dec 4th, 2006 · Half a million dollars in scholarships for high school science geniuses were announced today in New York City at the Siemens Competition, one of the nation's top science fairs. Seventeen top students competed with research on such topics as blinking stars, sick worms and amorous monkeys. But the winning project, on topology and abstract algebra, may be incomprehensible to anyone without a PhD in math.
Dec 4th, 2006 · According to a new survey, economists agree on a large number of policy issues ranging from free trade to educational vouchers. Economist Robert Whaples surveyed over two-hundred Ph.D. economists, randomly selected from the American Economic Association.