professor

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“Reservoirs constitute an important source of methane,” said John Harrison, a professor at Washington State University’s School of the Environment who studies the greenhouse gases that reservoirs emit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

“Women have a different trajectory in how the disease will progress,” said Mukesh Dhamala, the study’s senior author and a professor of physics and neuroscience at Georgia State.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

“Coming out of Covid, the labor force saw a spate of dynamism that it hadn’t seen in a long time,” said Chad Syverson, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

"The receptors targeted by semaglutide are found in the brain but also in the gut, pancreas and other tissues," said assistant professor of pathology Katrin Svensson, PhD.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026

The tableau of a little boy engaged in mental combat with a judge, doctor, or college professor some eight or ten times his age was often greeted with mirth and wonder.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady