professor

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They can usually direct their donations toward funding a specific mission – perhaps in memory of a favorite professor, supporting cancer research or to support extracurricular activities such as sports.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Wang, a research professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellow of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, has recreated Martian conditions in the lab to study these effects.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Today, as a professor in an immersive media design program, I still teach usability as one principle among others in building robust and meaningful interactions.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Jill Johnston is an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at UC Irvine.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

In 1633, he became Provost of Digne Cathedral, and in 1645 professor of mathematics at the Collège Royale in Paris.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin