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

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

"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

The jury acquitted Ridley-Thomas of 12 other charges related to a scholarship and a professorship that his son, Sebastian, received from USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

For Segre, a friend and collaborator of Enrico Fermi’s who was heading home to a professorship at Italy’s poverty-stricken University of Palermo, these pieces of radioactive shrapnel were priceless.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik