professor

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A former professor of biology at the University of the South, Mr. Haskell has made a career of explaining the lives of plants to spellbound audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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

Duffy and Yue Li, an associate professor of economics at the State University of New York at Albany, co-authored a new study, “Early Social Security Claiming and Slow Asset Decumulation: Experimental Evidence.“

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

“That’s why. I came close to losing everything I had that summer. From the day that professor got here until the day he left, I never sold as much as a can of snuff.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls