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PHD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study
Synonyms:
Ph.D.; PhD
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("PhD" is a kind of...):
Doctor of Philosophy (a doctorate awarded for original contributions to knowledge)
Context examples:
This speedy appearance of life on Earth fits with other evidence of recently discovered 3,700 million year old sedimentary mounds that were shaped by microorganisms, first author, PhD student Matthew Dodd explained.
(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“We have a lot more work to do, but so far this is very promising,” said Glenn Gaudette, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at WPI and corresponding author of the paper.
(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)
There are different theories on dune interaction: one is that dunes of different sizes will collide, and keep colliding, until they form one giant dune, although this phenomenon has not yet been observed in nature, said Karol Bacik, a PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and the paper’s first author.
(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)
“It was fascinating to see how much light we could get from these materials in a scenario where we’d expect them to be quite dark,” said MacPherson, a PhD student in the Cavendish Laboratory.
(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)
The phrase ‘we are all made of stardust’ is one we hear a lot in popular astronomy, but where exactly does this dust come from? says Emily Cannon, a PhD student at KU Leuven working with SPHERE images of red supergiants.
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
Measuring the abundances of these chemicals in exoplanetary atmospheres is something extraordinary, considering that we have not been able to do the same for giant planets in our solar system yet, including Jupiter, our nearest gas giant neighbour, said Luis Welbanks, lead author of the study and PhD student at the Institute of Astronomy.
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
This technique has great potential to become a screening tool that helps decide who should undergo more expensive and invasive testing for Alzheimer's disease prior to the appearance of clinical symptoms, said the study's first author, Bliss E. O'Bryhim, MD, PhD, a resident physician in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences.
(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Our exciting findings don't just extend back the record of life living in hot springs by 3 billion years, they indicate that life was inhabiting the land much earlier than previously thought, by up to about 580 million years, said study first author, UNSW PhD candidate, Tara Djokic.
(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The international team of astronomers, led by Jessica Spake, a PhD student at the University of Exeter in the UK, used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to discover helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b This is the first detection of its kind.
(Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, ESA/Hubble)
Depression affects at least one in six of us at some point in our lifetime, and better treatments are urgently needed, said senior author Abraham Palmer, PhD, professor of psychiatry and vice chair for basic research at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
