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Only a few months later, the Morningside Foundation, led by Hong Kong venture capitalists Ronnie and Gerald Chan, topped that with a $350m donation to the school of public health, where Gerald earned his master's and doctorate degrees.
Born in County Waterford, Ireland, Richardson read history at Trinity College, Dublin, as an undergraduate, before postgraduate study at UCLA and a doctorate at Harvard.
He obtained a diploma in social studies at Ruskin College, Oxford, and subsequently both his first degree and a doctorate in psychology at University College, Oxford.
She has her doctorate , and he has not.
For example, at postgraduate level we could assess a pilot scheme whereby every graduate with a first who had previously been in receipt of free school meals would get a full scholarship – fees and maintenance – to any postgraduate degree, including doctorate , at any institution, providing they meet the academic and other criteria.
The 79-year-old author, perhaps best known for his 1979 novel A Dry White Season, which focuses on the death in detention of a black activist and was adapted for film in 1989, was a literature professor at the University of Cape Town and had just been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
Burlatsky took his first degree at the Tashkent Juridical Institute, a PhD at the Institute of State and Law in Moscow and a higher doctorate in philosophy – on Machiavelli.
Having graduated with a doctorate from Columbia University in 1970, Weinstein turned to development work abroad and "working on and teaching the protection of human rights", as he wrote in his 2013 letter.
Pacadis held a doctorate from the Sorbonne and styled himself a "junkie existentialist".
To take the job as head of such an agency is a logical choice for Guillaume Poupard, a man passionate about "mathematics as applied to concrete problems", with a doctorate in cryptography.
Thatcher was the first Oxford-educated prime minister to be denied an honorary doctorate by the university, after she oversaw swingeing cuts to the education budget in the 1980s.
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The word "doctorate" functions primarily as a noun , referring to the highest degree awarded by a university. Ludwig's examples show it used to describe academic achievements, such as earning or being stripped of a "doctorate". Ludwig AI confirms it is correct and widely accepted in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
