Defending Dissertations During COVID-19

Posted on May 08, 2020

Amanda Durall, her husband, and her newborn baby

Dr. Amanda Durall never imagined that she would complete her doctorate in the backseat of her minivan in the middle of a global pandemic. 

“My dissertation year was a crazy experience, to say the least,” said Durall, an associate lecturer in exercise science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.