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

In 1973, he was awarded a lifetime research professorship by the American Cancer Society, and a year later was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Giemulla, based in Berlin, is a prominent European aviation lawyer who also has an adjunct professorship at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2024

Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024

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