She became the first African-American woman to earn a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

But her boyfriend at the time did not want her to get an advanced degree in psychology.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

Next,he will attend the University of Georgia to continue writing and graduate with a degree in English.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

But in measuring distance, one degree shrinks from about one hundred nine kilometers at the equator to nothing at the north and south poles.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The president said jobs requiring at least an associate degree are expected to grow twice as fast in the coming years as jobs requiring no college experience.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

He went on to study physics at the University of Madrid and with that degree in hand headed to a theological center in Salamanca,where,in 1960, he was ordained a Dominican priest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assertion in a Friday news conference in New York that the new facility was not in violation of International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines and would be for energy purposes seemed to only increase the degree of anger on Capitol Hill.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25