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Ah, Summer. The Smell of Last-Minute Ph.D. Defenses Is in the Air

Jul 16, 2007

On her blog, the FemaleScienceProfessor goes through the "Anatomy of a Ph.D. Defense." As a committee member she mainly probes the unpublished data to give feedback on it to the student but sometimes the meetings seem to be a waste of time, she says. Scroll all the way down her post -- the commenters add their own defense experiences.

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