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Registrar

August Graduates – Deadline to Submit Your Thesis/Dissertation is August 1st!

Congratulations to students who have reached the finish line and plan to complete degree requirements and graduate this summer. The deadline to submit your thesis/dissertation is August 1st.

News

Inaugural Ceremony Recognizes Over 200 New Doctoral Candidates

During the spring semester, 212 Cornell doctoral students took their admission to candidacy exam (the A exam). In June, they gathered for the Graduate School’s inaugural Admission to Candidacy Recognition Ceremony. Hosted by the Office of Academic and Student Affairs, the event lauded students for achieving the milestone of becoming a doctoral candidate and moving, through research and dissertation writing, to degree completion.

Read more about the ceremony.

Student Spotlight

Germán Reyes is a doctoral candidate in economics from La Plata, Argentina. He attended the Universidad Nacional de La Plata as an undergraduate and now studies why some students perform better than others on standardized exams and how test-score gaps eventually lead to income equality.

Read more about Germán Reyes.

All spotlights.

Kudos!

Doctoral Candidate Presents Accepted Paper at ACM Conference

Chinasa T. Okolo, a doctoral candidate in computer science, presented her accepted paper, “Making AI Explainable in the Global South: A Systematic Review,” at the 2022 ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) in Seattle, Washington.

Doctoral Candidate’s Research Featured in Garden Talk

History doctoral candidate Jennifer A. Begakis’s research on financial capitalism and Disney was featured by the Garden, a global community of experts, in a live and live on-demand research talk: “Is Capitalism Disney’s Best Untold Story?” Begakis was selected as a Garden Fellow.