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Has anyone, based on great performance, ever been awarded a higher degree than the one they enrolled for?

answered Jul 20, 2017 at 14:08

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What is the point of a PhD thesis whose content already exists in published papers?

answered Apr 8, 2016 at 20:15

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How to do research when your teaching workload is very high?

answered Oct 13, 2022 at 12:51

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What is "educ times"? A journal?

answered Nov 10 at 12:20

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Do I mention that a paper in mathematics is a "Short Communication" or "Note" or "Research Article" when citing it?

answered Feb 7, 2021 at 15:13

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Can a professor teach mathematics and computer science?

answered Nov 19, 2017 at 10:46

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How can teachers reduce student suspicions in discrepancies and irregularities of grading?

answered May 25, 2016 at 17:02

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Will a post on arXiv as a high school sophomore hurt my future academic life?

answered Jun 10, 2016 at 20:42

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Is paraphrasing my own texts using online tools is okay?

answered Jun 23, 2021 at 10:22

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Why don’t some PhD students publish their thesis works in a journal?

answered Sep 8, 2020 at 14:54

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Teaching high school math between PhD and postdoc

answered May 25 at 11:03

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Will there be a problem if I have not mentioned in my PhD application that i am already a PhD student in different university?

answered Mar 24 at 14:27

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How should I approach the issue of students not writing their name and student number on an exam?

answered Mar 5, 2020 at 8:12

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Inclusion of GRE score/completion on CV - under which heading?

answered Dec 12, 2019 at 11:23

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How to give a short math talk on a very broad topic?

answered Jan 5, 2022 at 11:59

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Why do PhD admission committees focus on your bachelor's degree grades when you have better master's degree grades?

answered Oct 22, 2020 at 9:22

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Introduction depends on preliminaries. What to do?

answered Jun 23, 2018 at 22:06

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How do I quickly describe the timeframe a topic became relevant?

answered Mar 27, 2018 at 6:45

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How to find out someone really holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Hungary?

answered Oct 15, 2017 at 8:22

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Is a letter of recommendation from a suicide line worth anything in academic career in STEM?

answered Jan 31, 2021 at 19:47

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How to create a hypothesis for a historical research?

answered Apr 8, 2019 at 20:06

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How can I convey my knowledge about a field without publications in a PhD application?

answered Apr 6, 2020 at 11:23

4 votes

What to do if you are assigned to TA a course you are not qualified to teach?

answered Mar 15, 2022 at 13:08

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What to do if a special case of a theorem is published

answered Apr 13 at 10:59

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Does the order in which you list committee members in a dissertation matter?

answered Mar 16, 2019 at 10:26

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How to organize lots of assumptions/equations in a math paper? (I need to refer to them in my main theorem)

answered Mar 17, 2021 at 18:41

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How to respond to "unfair to write English" comments?

answered May 11, 2021 at 17:27

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After six months under review and after an e-mail to the editor

answered May 16, 2016 at 20:20

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"Duke University Press" vs "Duke University Press Books"

answered Apr 20, 2017 at 14:13

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Can a thesis contain preface?

answered Feb 21, 2018 at 8:24

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Has anyone, based on great performance, ever been awarded a higher degree than the one they enrolled for?

What is the point of a PhD thesis whose content already exists in published papers?

How to do research when your teaching workload is very high?

What is "educ times"? A journal?

Do I mention that a paper in mathematics is a "Short Communication" or "Note" or "Research Article" when citing it?

Can a professor teach mathematics and computer science?

How can teachers reduce student suspicions in discrepancies and irregularities of grading?

Will a post on arXiv as a high school sophomore hurt my future academic life?

Is paraphrasing my own texts using online tools is okay?

Why don’t some PhD students publish their thesis works in a journal?

Teaching high school math between PhD and postdoc

Will there be a problem if I have not mentioned in my PhD application that i am already a PhD student in different university?

How should I approach the issue of students not writing their name and student number on an exam?

Inclusion of GRE score/completion on CV - under which heading?

How to give a short math talk on a very broad topic?

Why do PhD admission committees focus on your bachelor's degree grades when you have better master's degree grades?

Introduction depends on preliminaries. What to do?

How do I quickly describe the timeframe a topic became relevant?

How to find out someone really holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Hungary?

Is a letter of recommendation from a suicide line worth anything in academic career in STEM?

How to create a hypothesis for a historical research?

How can I convey my knowledge about a field without publications in a PhD application?

What to do if you are assigned to TA a course you are not qualified to teach?

What to do if a special case of a theorem is published

Does the order in which you list committee members in a dissertation matter?

How to organize lots of assumptions/equations in a math paper? (I need to refer to them in my main theorem)

How to respond to "unfair to write English" comments?

After six months under review and after an e-mail to the editor

"Duke University Press" vs "Duke University Press Books"

Can a thesis contain preface?