professorship

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Earlier this year, he left a professorship at Yale for the state-run University of Science and Technology of China.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

In 1973, he was awarded a lifetime research professorship by the American Cancer Society, and a year later was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Giemulla, based in Berlin, is a prominent European aviation lawyer who also has an adjunct professorship at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2024

"Ecological zones are often very similar across national borders," explains David Wuepper, who was appointed to a new professorship in the University of Bonn's PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence as recently as April 2023.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell