professor

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Tara Grove, a law professor at the University of Texas who attended Thomas’s speech, disagreed that Thomas was alluding to any of his colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

“If you copy-paste chunks of ChatGPT with minimal edits, then Pangram is fairly accurate,” Tuhin Chakrabarty, an assistant professor of computer science at SUNY, told me.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Maintaining incentives like 6% APY can be difficult and may even be unsustainable over time, Xiang Zheng, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Connecticut, recently told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

UC Berkeley education professor Bruce Fuller focused on the recent private school decline, noting that “fewer parents appear able to afford private schools.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Another of the Galileo legends introduced by Viviani refers to Galileo’s time as professor of mathematics in Pisa, but is, once again, almost certainly not true.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin