professor

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They can usually direct their donations toward funding a specific mission – perhaps in memory of a favorite professor, supporting cancer research or to support extracurricular activities such as sports.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

“The onus is 100% on us to say: here is the value of being here,” said Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, a professor of computer sciences at University of Wisconsin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

"What makes this question so hard to answer is that direct observations are very sparse in northern Alaska," says Rawlins, extension associate professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

But at 17, his father, a professor, was sent to prison for writing that religion and government should be separate, Shahabi said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Bobby’s opponent that night was the urbane college professor Donald Byrne, an international master, former U.S.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady