For example, a donor might consider providing struggling graduate students the funds they need to finish their dissertations.

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"I am quite certain there are going to be dissertations written about the mistakes of the Bush administration, " she said.

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With WAP and M-commerce on tap soon, it won't be long before we see people delivering dissertations at expressway tollbooths.

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Books and dissertations have been written about the complicated history and cultural practices of this event and the way they shape New Orleans.

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When my students defend their dissertations, I ask everyone on the Ph.

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Large parts of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's 2006 legal dissertations were found by Bayreuth University to have been copied and he stood down before it issued its damning verdict in May 2011.

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"When I sat down, he gave one of the most thrilling, impromptu dissertations on why the overture to 'Gypsy' is one of the most seminal pieces of American theater music, " Wright recalls.

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On return visits he started collecting old cigar molds (he now owns 200) and old books, pamphlets and dissertations, going door to door in Havana to buy them up--until word spread of the crazy gringo and prices shot up.

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Beyond the potential ethical problems and ease of finding ghostwriters for academic dissertations (go ahead, Google it), accusations of plagiarism have stung the British academy: the son of the late Libyan Colonel Gaddafi was investigated last year for allegations that his doctoral dissertation at the London School of Economics was penned by a ghostwriter.

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