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professorship

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /


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Blau, who leads the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and holds the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professorship, and Nidhi Bhutani, PhD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, are the study's senior authors.

From Science Daily • Jan. 20, 2026

Tao did not disclose on the form that he was named to a Chinese talent program, the Changjiang Professorship.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2023

Two professorships have been renamed the Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professorship and the Edward B. Lewis Professorships of Biology to remove references to Millikan and Ruddock.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021

His scientific insight and deft hand with the notoriously tricky experiments led him eventually to the Sterling Professorship of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

From Nature • Oct. 29, 2018

And yet, for this kind soul, looking into life with such love and hope, I must in a little while overcloud the merited Heaven of today, with tidings of my failure in the Catechetical Professorship!

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas




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