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dean

[deen] / din /


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Danny Stockli, dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences and a co-author of the study, said zircon U-Pb dating offers one of the most accurate ways to determine when events occurred deep in Earth's past.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

At Columbia University, he chaired the statistics department before spending five years as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"That's really where the problems began," said Dr Shane Speights, dean of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“The key thing is, what are the tasks that a manager does?” says economist David Deming, dean of Harvard College.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The final straw came one evening while she sat downstairs on the phone listening to my dean from Riverdale explain why they were placing me on academic and disciplinary probation.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

As part of the role, monarchs are responsible for approving the appointment of archbishops, bishops and deans on the recommendation of the prime minister.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The deans urged the California Supreme Court to allow test takers who sat through the exam and were unsuccessful to obtain provisional licenses under the supervision of experienced attorneys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025

“Provisional licensure would allow candidates with offers of employment contingent on bar passage to retain them,” the deans wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025

The cost of cyclotrons already was raising the hackles of academic deans and presidents.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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