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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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The average full professor salary at Harvard in 2026 is $293,619, up 6.4% from last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

There are also things carmakers can do to alleviate motion sickness in electric vehicles, says Prof Cyriel Diels, professor of mobility design at the Royal College of Art.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"ImP-producing bacteria are present in a large fraction of people, but they're not very abundant in most people," says Rey, a UW-Madison professor of bacteriology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Brian Oswald, a 69-year-old retired forestry professor from Nacogdoches, Texas, came straight to Oktoberfest after landing on an overnight flight from the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ellsberg called his friend Howard Zinn, a Boston University professor and antiwar activist.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Mr. Dillon, a former federal prosecutor, is a partner at Dillon PLLC, where he represents students and professors in campus misconduct cases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

My English teachers and literature professors were probably too tired to parse such nuance, and I don’t blame them.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Some professors might oppose civic-dialogue initiatives on their campuses, but students are the ones who have been pushing for better conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The settlement would resolve one part of a broader lawsuit, brought by a legal team that includes UC law school professors and additional attorneys, challenging roughly $2 billion in funding cuts across seven federal agencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

He clapped me a hair too hard on the back and together he and Blake walked over to Tess, who was chatting with one of the professors like they were old friends.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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