scholar
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The experiments were led by Eliza Cornell, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Lončar lab who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University, and Zhujing Xu, a former postdoctoral scholar in Lončar's group.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
USC media scholar Henry Jenkins, co-author of the “Frames of Fandom” book series, said devotees arriving in search of a “Star Wars” museum must be made to feel welcome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Xu knows this not only as a scholar, now at Stanford University after years in Hong Kong and London, but from experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“It wouldn’t be a scholar either—the baby, I mean. D’you want me to do all these sprouts?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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An award for scholars willing to publish rigorous, unwelcome findings is valuable because incentives matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
There’s an assumption that the second half is Shakespeare’s, but scholars continue to quarrel over attribution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
However, experts have questioned the artwork's provenance, with some scholars attributing it to Giacomo Ceruti - another Italian artist from the same period.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yet, like the medieval scholars before him, Descartes believed that nothing truly moved in a straight line, for that would leave a vacuum behind it.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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