Tag: PhD

How Imperial scholar Michael Hedges’ former driving career led him to green up London’s taxi’s fleet and research air pollution. Michael Hedges, 63, will be finishing his PhD this year at Imperial College on the health effects of the dust from the London Underground. After a...

At seven, I was bullied for being effeminate and gay. A cacophony; every word, whisper, and weakening knock on the closet door would sound like three. Every word, whisper and weakening knock would sound like three. Word, whisper, knock, sound like three. Two years later, I attempted to absol...

The road to getting the highly coveted Doctor of Philosophy degree is a tough one. The application process is inherently stressful and can, at times, be isolating and confusing. My goal in this blog post is to do my best to assuage those fears by providing my approach to applications last cycle. ...

There’s no typical example of a data scientist these days. With the field still relatively young, people from all kinds of backgrounds and experiences — including an academic one, like mine — are finding their way to a data science career. At Faire, we recognize the value o...

For decades, our DNA was seen as a fixed blueprint, dictating our fate with unwavering precision. But a new dawn is breaking, where the once-immutable strands are revealing their surprisingly fluid nature. Epigenetics, the study of how our environment and experiences influence gene expression withou...

Einstein completed his Ph.D. thesis in 1905 with Professor Alfred Kleiner, who was an experimental physicist at the University of Zürich. He was awarded a doctorate degree with the dissertation entitled “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.’’ It was not the s...