professorial

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Prof. Alon is the incumbent of the Abisch-Frenkel Professorial Chair.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Professorial jobs overwhelmingly go to candidates with Ph.D.s from the top-six institutions.

From Slate • May 10, 2023

Professorial and unpretentious, Trebek continued to helm the question-and-answer show for 18 months after his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis in March 2019.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2020

Professorial affectations are not high on the list of tactics candidates like to use in this age of galloping populism.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2011

As you WON'T have a Professor of Natural History at Sydney—to my great sorrow—I have gone in as a candidate for a Professorial chair at the other end of the world, Toronto in Canada.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry