Jorge Cham, creator of the cult comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, or PHD, is probably the most gut-achingly funny/tragic counsellor you could recommend to a PhD student -- or to any confounded ...

Earlier this year, graduate students suddenly found themselves deprived of a major source of procrastination when updates of the Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) Comics suddenly reduced to trickles. The ...

The creator of the popular online comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" has turned it into a feature film. The PhD Movie, which opened this week at a handful of US universities, will be screened at ...

Why turn the comic strip into a movie? The spark was a spoof of a Lady Gaga video put together by some scientists in Texas. It looked like so much fun. But a lot of things were pointing in that ...