professor

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"By sharing energy reserves, satellite glial cells may help keep neurons out of pain," said Ji, a professor of anesthesiology, neurobiology and cell biology at Duke School of Medicine.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, said Pratt seems to have tapped into a deep well of discontent among Angelenos who believe that crime and homeless have spiraled out of control.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Yesha Yadav, a law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, explained that prediction markets used to be much more similar to opinion polling than gambling.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

“The current ‘flash-sale wars’ are typical competition under demand-side economies of scale but have escalated into irrational capital burn,” said Chen Tianhao, an associate professor at Tsinghua University.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Although styled professor of mathematics, his brief included what we would now call physics and was then called natural philosophy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin