emeritus

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D.Phil., professor emeritus of neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychiatry.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Mr. Page is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"That would have been an important specimen," said Freeman, lead author of the study and a senior public service associate emeritus at the UGA Odum School of Ecology.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

“It certainly looks for now that it is continuing to expand,” William C. Banks, a professor emeritus at Syracuse University’s Public Administration and International Affairs Department, told Salon on Monday.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

Born at North Stratford, Connecticut, August 8, 1779; graduated at Yale, 1796; tutor there, 1799, and professor, 1802; professor emeritus, 1853; died at New Haven, Connecticut, November 24, 1864.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert