His dissertation adviser there, Peter S. Onuf, is among those who signed the letter.

Teachers tell what graduate school is like and offer guidance on such crucial decisions as how to select a dissertation adviser.

At the end of the first year, students select a dissertation adviser and enter their department for their Ph.D. research.

Many graduate students have difficulty tracking down their dissertation advisers, but few risk death and damnation to find them.

She thought about all the teachers she'd tried to please, the professors, her dissertation adviser.

"You'd have a hard time finding a dissertation adviser, an interested publisher and a receptive hiring committee," Bauerlein said.

"I was in my second year and David was my dissertation adviser," she said carefully, her eyes glancing furtively at her husband.

Alfred North Whitehead was her dissertation adviser.

Kate Millett's dissertation adviser and Shere Hite's editor are to blame!

Suspecting that his dissertation adviser would find the idea silly (or worse), Pääbo conducted his mummy research in secret, at night.