professorship

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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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

Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024

More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson’s disease.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

Until he was fired—mysteriously deemed unqualified for the tenured professorship he’d had for over a decade.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed