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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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“You’d have to work pretty hard to not recognize that this is different,” University of Texas professor James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project, told me.

From Slate Sep. 21, 2026

Both Morton, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management, and Kimmelman formerly served in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The five-year, two-phase effort is being led by Mingjiang Tao, associate professor in the WPI Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Doctors should help patients assess their own risks and benefits, said Dr. John J. Chen, a doctor who specializes in diseases of the optic nerve and a professor at Mayo Clinic.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

I admire that he got a PhD and became a professor, and now he’s a leading expert on literature from the Midwest.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Rather than focus on the odds of a one-day crash, the professors focused on the probability of a 40% decline over a two-year period.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Pro-testing professors have dominated public comment at earlier regents meetings, pointing to all eight Ivy League campuses, Caltech and Stanford, which reintroduced testing after dropping it around the pandemic over test access and equity concerns.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

The professors updated their study in 2023 and reached similar results.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Other professors had the ear of cabinet ministers and press barons and sat on royal commissions that shaped this or that national policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

My professors came into focus, suddenly and sharply; it was as if before the grant I’d been looking at them through a blurred lens.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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