Instead of writing his master's thesis, Peretti decided to play the smartass and asked Nike to emblazon the word "sweatshop" on a customised pair of trainers.
Having completed my master?s thesis, I decided not to continue pursuing academic R&D.
For his master's thesis, Williams decided to prime people with stimuli of spatial distance and then expose them to what he calls "aversive media," which includes violent stories but also embarrassing or scary ones.
So there I was, applying a carefully concocted credit calculus to determine the positions of family, friends, and colleagues on my Acknowledgments slide, when my thesis committee decided to diverge from its steady diet of belt-high fastball "requirements" and toss me something with a little movement on it.
From her interview with the Times' India Knight, we learn that Belle is in fact Dr Brooke Magnanti a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology who ran out of money during the final stages of her PhD thesis and decided to become an escort to make ends meet.
At the time, Procter & Gamble had recently provided support for this thesis by deciding to base payments for its online advertising on click-through -- the number of times a surfer was interested enough in an online ad to give it a click.
Last month, we offered suggestions on how to prepare for your thesis defence: Decide whether you need more research results, sketch out a plan for those experiments and for writing thesis chapters, and--importantly--get your supervisor's support for that plan.
I had excellent mentors who advised me on virtually every aspect of my career development: choosing my thesis lab, deciding to come to Northwestern, management of start-up funds, becoming a good research advisor, grantsmanship, choice of clinical subspecialty, time management, and so on.
This was the predicament that faced THESIS when they decided to work to improve the situation of PhD candidates in Germany.
With encouragement from her husband and support from her thesis supervisor, she decided to pursue this unique career opportunity at the government.
