EditorialChris Hughes, who helped found Facebook and is now a doctoral student at Wharton focused on Fed history and defending Arthur Burns’ actions as Fed chair in the 1970s, in New York, April 19, 2023. (Gili Benita/The New York Times)
EditorialVeronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine who is involved in lawsuit against the Fulbright Program for discrimination against immigrants, in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 2023. (Bethany Mollenkof/The New York Times)
EditorialVeronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine who is involved in lawsuit against the Fulbright Program for discrimination against immigrants, in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 2023. (Bethany Mollenkof/The New York Times)
EditorialVeronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine who is involved in lawsuit against the Fulbright Program for discrimination against immigrants, in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 2023. (Bethany Mollenkof/The New York Times)
EditorialVeronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine who is involved in lawsuit against the Fulbright Program for discrimination against immigrants, in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 2023. (Bethany Mollenkof/The New York Times)
EditorialVeronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine who is involved in lawsuit against the Fulbright Program for discrimination against immigrants, in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 2023. (Bethany Mollenkof/The New York Times)
EditorialA robot prototype being developed by Yuhang Hu, a doctoral student in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, where engineers are exploring the possibility of self-aware robots. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialA robot prototype being developed by Yuhang Hu, a doctoral student in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, where engineers are exploring the possibility of self-aware robots. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialBeck Tench, a doctoral student, at her improvised rooftop office on Bainbridge Island, Wash., July 12, 2022. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)
EditorialThe tassel given to Aljanal Carroll, who earned a doctoral degree from Walden University, an online, for-profit school, after three years and tens of thousands of dollars in unexpected tuition costs, in Charlotte, N.C., Jan. 23, 2022. (Alycee Byrd/The New York Times)
EditorialJohannah King-Slutzky, a doctoral student at Columbia University and a member of the student workers' union, on campus in New York, Nov. 3, 2021. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)