There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

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MAKING the most use of the locked down that has postponed graduation ceremonies, we dwell on certain sections of the research manuscript for the benefit of our degree candidates (that is, students ...