university
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Last year, the company decimated the staff of the Merced Sun-Star, leaving it with one journalist funded through a university grant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Michigan’s new university president takes the helm on Dec. 1, and the university has said the athletic director would step down at the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Born in the university town of Uppsala in 1967, she is the only daughter of a university professor and a teacher.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
She said the cost hung over much of her first year at university and she was "constantly stressing" about how much money she was having to put towards rent.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Perched beside me on the bed, Nollie joined in as naturally as though visiting a university was an everyday event for us.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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FFRDCs are government-funded, privately operated research centers that include private, non-profit think tanks and major research universities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Sures cited research from Brown and Harvard universities that he said found test scores predict college success better than high school grades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Acid testing of the child's teeth, a technique developed by the universities of Durham and Bristol, coupled with DNA analysis concluded the child was most likely male, the inquest heard.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Researchers at universities and commercial AI research labs in China wrote in a recent paper that autonomous, self-improving AI is likely to be a long way off, due to the sheer number of breakthroughs required.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Pat yourself on the back because you'll get instant access to six years of high school and then four at the top universities in the Republic: Drake, Stanford, and Brenan.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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