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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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“The bigger issue is about aging. It’s not about discouraged workers,” said Gerald Cohen, a finance professor and economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The study was led by Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz, an associate professor of chemistry in the OSU College of Science.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Dr Theocharis Kyriacou, who is associate professor of AI at York St John University, explained government guidelines on the use of AI in schools were only produced a year ago.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Alberto Alemanno, a professor of European Union Law at HEC Paris and a Democracy Fellow at Harvard, said that Vance’s visit may have hurt Orbán due to the so-called “Trump Boomerang Effect.”

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Although styled professor of mathematics, his brief included what we would now call physics and was then called natural philosophy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin