They now earn the majority of professional and doctoral degrees, up from just 10% in 1961.

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The proposal calls for a two-phase approach to create a "freestanding SUNY 'specialized' college" with its own budget that would award doctoral degrees.

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She worked with HIV-positive patients while earning her master's and doctoral degrees in nursing, and watched as a few mysterious AIDS cases in the United States turned into a global problem.

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Besides field excursions, during which young scientists were provided with opportunities to learn from more experienced colleagues, the careers of many have been boosted and five of them have since completed doctoral degrees thanks to cooperative research between universities and research institutions in the region and their counterparts in Europe.

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