- a variation of dene.
dean
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She is a law professor and associate dean at Stanford.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Benjamin Bycel, a civil rights attorney, law school dean and university president who took on the task of cleaning up Los Angeles politics as the city’s first ethics officer, died Aug. 2 in Santa Barbara.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Producers can ease the stranglehold on Hormuz with workarounds, but “it has not been enough to render Iran’s veto irrelevant,” said Eric Alter, the dean of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Prabhakar said her department chair, dean and a college vice president supported her explanation of the story’s academic purpose.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Chemistry dean Gilbert Lewis was the undisputed head of the Berkeley science faculty when Lawrence arrived.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The university also hired a new provost and new deans and reformed its discipline policies to make them “more consistent, fair and effective,” Garber has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Now she is besieged by an array of faculty, unions and deans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
As part of the role, monarchs are responsible for approving the appointment of archbishops, bishops and deans on the recommendation of the prime minister.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
“He has built strong relationships with deans, faculty and staff across USC and Keck Medicine, earning respect from everyone,” it continues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
Twelve o’clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and...whew, it was one o’clock!
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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