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professorship

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /


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In May, she leaves for a three-month residency with the prestigious Picador Professorship in Germany.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

"That idea hasn't been explicitly tested with large-scale analyses of social insects until now," said Economo, who also holds the James B. Gahan and Margaret H. Gahan Professorship at UMD.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

The indictment accuses Tao of not informing the University of Kansas that he was selected for the Changjiang Professorship or the salary for his appointment to Fuzhou University in Fuzhou, China.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2020

In 1972, Bruner sailed his boat across the Atlantic to take up the first Watts Professorship of Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK.

From Nature • Jul. 12, 2016

It is eighteen years since I entered upon the duties of this Professorship.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth




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