Her mother received a doctorate in ophthalmology at the University of Berlin in 1908 and became the first female physician in Lithuania, while her father had received his medical degree from the University of Tartu in 1910.

Her doctorate in Sociology ( with an emphasis in Criminology ) was awarded by the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976.

Her father, William Wallace Hill, was born in Bath, Kentucky, graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1833, and earned a doctorate of Theology from Princeton University in 1838.

She has worked on an unusually wide range of topics ; the citation for her lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science states that “ Her studies on the topics of mental imagery, face recognition, semantic memory, reading, attention, and executive functioning have become classics in the field .” Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University.

Her work was recognized in 1998 with an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel.

Her first degree was in zoology, from Wellesley College ; she then received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University ( Radcliffe College ).

Her thesis was titled " In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third-person effect and Pre-Trial Publicity.

Her thesis was on Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair.

Her thesis was completed in 1965 under the tutorship of Robert Hinde, former master of St. John's College, Cambridge, titled " Behavior of the Free-Ranging Chimpanzee ," detailing her first five years of study at the Gombe Reserve.

Her doctoral thesis was concerned with the alpha rays of polonium, the element discovered by her parents ( along with radium ) and named after Marie ’ s country of birth, Poland.

Her thesis, titled " Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory ," was about the philosophical underpinnings of quantum mechanics.

Her senior thesis was written on Czech Communist Zdeněk Fierlinger.

She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1969 with that B. A .. ( Her undergraduate thesis became the basis for The Black Man of Zincantan, published in 1972.

Her master's thesis was titled " The Influence of the French Symbolist School on Anglo-American Poetry " ( 1939 ).

* Marjory Stoneman Douglas's River of Progress: Modernism, Feminism, Regionalism, and Environmentalism in Her Early Writings A master's thesis from the University of Florida about Douglas ' short stories

Her book The Pornography of Meat explores her thesis that United States culture conflates women and meat by analyzing its verbal and visual imagery.

Her undergraduate thesis was titled Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation.

Her thesis supervisor was Noam Chomsky.

Her thesis thus established that hydrogen was the overwhelming constituent of the stars ( see Metallicity ).

Her thesis title was Homology representations of braid groups and her thesis adviser was Sir Michael Atiyah.

Her theory has been widely disparaged and dismissed by scholars, and Thiering's thesis has received little support.

Her PhD was awarded by the University of Texas in Austin in 1966, with the thesis Evolution of Galaxies and its Significance for Cosmology.

Her thesis investigated gender politics in art and Culture, cultural mores and taboos surrounding the representation of the male body.

Her thesis was titled: ' The regulation of the fundraising process in Australia: searching for an optimal mix between legislative prescriptions and market forces '.

Her Ph. D. thesis was on " Definability and Decision Problems in Arithmetic ".

Her thesis focused on the effects of radiation, paraquat and the chemotherapy drug Adriamycin, on bacteria and mammals.

Her thesis was written on the music in Alain Resnais's movie " L ' Amour à mort.

Her thesis for her Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters degree “ Historic and Changing Role of the Jewish Woman ”, published in 1975 under the title “ Judaism and the New Woman ”, highlighted the changing role of women in Jewish history and was meant to advance their emancipation in Jewish religious life.

Her final thesis, L ' Alimentation Végétale de l ' Homme, was on the benefits of vegetarianism, published in English as The Perfect Way in Diet ( 1881 ).

Her primer for the lay-reader, Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development was published in April 2006.

Ellen Glasgow: Her Novels and Their Place in the Development of Southern Fiction.

Her other works include The World of the Past ( 1963 ), " Prehistory ( History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development, Volume 1 Part 1 )" ( 1963 ) prepared under the auspices of UNESCO, The Atlas of Early Man ( 1976 ) and The Shell Guide to British Archaeology ( 1986 ).

While in Paris she obtained a Diploma in Group Leadership from the same University. Her Ph. D studies in Development Economics at the University of Paris were interrupted when she returned to Sri Lanka to enter politics, where her mother ’ s government had launched a wide ranging programme of socialist reform and development.

Her initial technical assignment was in the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch, where she provided technical support for Space shuttle payloads.

Her administration founded the Cherokee Nation Community Development Department, revived the tribal Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, and saw a population increase of Cherokee Nation citizens from 55, 000 to 156, 000.

Her dissertation, Temperaturbegrebets Udvikling gennem Tiderne ( The Development of the Temperature Concept through Time ), was an in-depth treatment of the history of the concept of temperature.

Her father served as a diplomat for the Agency of International Development before becoming an executive with a major hotel in Boston.

" Keiko Abe, A Virtuosic Life: Her Musical Career and the Development of the Concert Marimba ", published 2007, GP Percussion

Her studies at Harvard were sponsored by a Fellowship from the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Her commitment to this was combined with activity in the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on Cooperation and Development.

Her science-fiction romance Star Sapphire ( 1985 ) won a High Commendation Award from the Book Development Council of Singapore in 1986, the same year when she was also awarded a Commendation prize for her better-known book Relatively Speaking on her family and childhood memories.

Her second novel Gift From The Gods ( 1990 ) was nominated for a National Book Development Council award in 1992.

Her previous work includes assignments with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the United Nations Development Program.

Her doctoral dissertation was on pulse diagnosis, titled Nadivijnana, the Crest-Jewel of Ayurveda: A Translation of Six Central Texts and an Examination of the Sources, Influences and Development of Indian Pulse-Diagnosis.

Her government career began in 1977 when she was appointed an Honors Program attorney at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Her first post-university job was as a programmer for Sony, where she eventually helped in the creation of Sony Online's first Research and Development group.

* Interview with Megan Gaiser ( President ) and Sheri Hargus ( Development Manager ) of Her Interactive, Adventure Classic Gaming ( 2000 )

Her numerous other writings include " Educational Reform: Challenges for Psychology and Psychologists ," in Professional Psychology ( 1996 ); " Adolescent Outcomes for Hyperactive Children: Perspectives on General and Specific Patterns of Childhood Risk for Adolescent Educational, Social, and Mental Health Problems ," in American Psychologist ( 1988 ); " Persistence of Hyperactive Symptoms from Childhood to Adolescence ," in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry ( 1987 ); and " Conceptual Foundations for School Psychology: Perspectives from the Development of the School Psychology Program at Berkeley ," in Professional School Psychologist ( 1986 ).

Her jobs included working for Lotus Development, Asymetrix, and, starting in 2000, as a lead product manager for Microsoft. NET.