professor

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Even as he veers into heady territory that could seem didactic, Riley maintains a low-key charm like a professor in his off-hours unspooling a few big ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency room physician and public health professor at Brown University, told CBS that the U.S. lacks the capacity to quickly respond to global outbreaks.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

“You need to have a limit on how much currency you can print up, right? That’s what we’re trying to do,” said Greene, also a psychology professor at Harvard.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

"The common link is the rock," says study co-author Oliver Warr, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Ottawa.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

A more helpful measurement perhaps is that it was four times the salary of the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge: so let’s say £400,000.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton