professor

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Research by Tian Heong Chan, associate professor of information systems and operations management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, has uncovered specific cases in which individuals beat teams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

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

"What makes this question so hard to answer is that direct observations are very sparse in northern Alaska," says Rawlins, extension associate professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, said local federal judges may believe it would be “more disruptive to try and put somebody in when the administration will just fire them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

“How come you didn’t sell anything? Did this professor have something to do with it?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls