The Fellowships are available to female researchers who are between one and five years post-PhD and have shown excellence in their career to date.

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Chee used university research funds to post his wife's PhD dissertation for examination to an external examiner.

CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

The post-Sputnik era drove the rapid growth in PhD physicists that came to an abrupt halt as the Vietnam war drained the science budget.

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Former BIHE student Pedram Roushan recently completed a PhD in physics at Princeton University, and is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Along the way to his PhD in 2005, Spanos worked at Google (GOOG) and when he finally completed his post-doctoral education at CalTech in 2008, he considered three options.

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