professorship
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Earlier this year, he left a professorship at Yale for the state-run University of Science and Technology of China.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
In 1973, he was awarded a lifetime research professorship by the American Cancer Society, and a year later was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
The university has a research collaboration with the company for aerospace scholarship, offers professional education programs to current Boeing employees and is home to a professorship and department named after Boeing.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024
Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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