The Outstanding Dissertation Awards are presented to doctoral-level students who have written original, innovative dissertations that reflect great research and have or are likely to be disseminated ...

These awards were established by the Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies Advisory Board in 2004-2005 to recognize exemplary achievement in graduate student research. Recipients have been honored for the ...

Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences J ames Spady, American Studies: “’Like the Spider from the Rose’: Colonialism, Knowledge Competition, and the Cultural Politics ...

Low statistical power undermines the purpose of scientific research; it reduces the chance of detecting a true effect. Perhaps less intuitively, low power also reduces the likelihood that a ...

Key metrics: A study find that peer reviewers can often judge the originality, rigour and significance of new work consistently — at least in theoretical physics ...