MIT: Inside the New World of Online Dissertation Defenses
May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
Call it another MIT innovation. When PhD student Jesse Tordoff passed her dissertation defense this month, she learned about the outcome in a new way: Her professors sent a thumbs-up emoji on the Zoom screen they were all sharing.
Welcome to the new world of the online dissertation defense, one of many changes academia is making during the Covid-19 pandemic. For gene . . .
Call it another MIT innovation. When PhD student Jesse Tordoff passed her dissertation defense this month, she learned about the outcome in a new way: Her professors sent a thumbs-up emoji on the Zoom screen they were all sharing.
Welcome to the new world of the online dissertation defense, one of many changes academia is making during the Covid-19 pandemic. For gene . . .