professorship

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Earlier this year, he left a professorship at Yale for the state-run University of Science and Technology of China.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

By 1991, he had moved to Seattle, which was his permanent home until 2006, when he accepted an offer of professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Robert Reinecke was appointed to a junior professorship at JGU's Institute of Geography in May 2023.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

The jury acquitted Ridley-Thomas of 12 other charges related to a scholarship and a professorship that his son, Sebastian, received from USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

For Segre, a friend and collaborator of Enrico Fermi’s who was heading home to a professorship at Italy’s poverty-stricken University of Palermo, these pieces of radioactive shrapnel were priceless.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik