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

Ernest called MIT’s bluff, informing Evans that he was welcome to hire experienced cyclotroneers from Berkeley to do the job, but warning that the good ones would demand at least an assistant professorship to move.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik