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
"Is this an amazing company or is it ridiculously overvalued? The answer is yes," quipped Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU Stern.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Mr. Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale and the author of admirable books on the Ottomans.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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