professorship

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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson’s disease.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 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

At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow University to take up a professorship in natural philosophy, a position he would hold for the next fifty-three years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson