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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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Joel Negin, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said Australia's measures in 1996 largely worked because they were part of a broad suite of measures implemented "very quickly" after the massacre.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Mr. Page is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Shohreh Farzan is an associate professor of population and public health at USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Feng and Michael Halassa, an associate professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Tufts University, are the senior authors of the study, which appears in Nature Neuroscience.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Her dad is a professor, too, but he’s on something called sabbatical.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish