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

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

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024

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

After emigrating from South Korea in his early 30s, he earned a doctorate in education at Indiana University Bloomington and eventually moved to rural Kentucky for an associate professorship at a small Christian university.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell