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

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

After emigrating from South Korea in his early 30s, he earned a doctorate in education at Indiana University Bloomington and eventually moved to rural Kentucky for an associate professorship at a small Christian university.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Just before his departure for Europe, the university had granted him an assistant professorship at a salary of $3,000.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik