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.

At my university, we offer a master’s degree in criminology and a criminal justice program with two options for courses of study, or tracks. The first track requires students to take a series of ...

Writing up your projects as manuscripts and submitting them as you go through your degree is a great way to gain valuable experience and get your science out there. Carolyn Trietsch recently defended ...