emeritus
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Jef I. Richards is a professor emeritus of advertising and public relations at Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
D.Phil., professor emeritus of neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychiatry.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
Professor David Voas, emeritus professor of social science at University College London, was one of those who raised suspicion over the Bible Society's findings.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
“The struggles of these ordinary farming folk in rural China really rhymed with what was suddenly happening to farming folk in the U.S.A.,” says Peter Conn, emeritus professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
He is president emeritus of the school he founded and has written his life’s 316 story in a simple, straightforward way, with never the slightest hint of boastfulness.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
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