professorship

Example Sentences

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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

"Ecological zones are often very similar across national borders," explains David Wuepper, who was appointed to a new professorship in the University of Bonn's PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence as recently as April 2023.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

“I definitely think it should go,” Ms. James-Chakraborty said in an interview, adding “there’s no one building or one professorship, or whatever the parents may be in a position to donate, that justifies that.”

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2023

Until he was fired—mysteriously deemed unqualified for the tenured professorship he’d had for over a decade.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed