professor
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“The budgetary items that are really driving the deficit over the next 10 years and the next 30 years and the long term are Social Security and Medicare,” said Stanford University finance professor Joshua Rauh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
After 4 p.m., the professor wrote “please send a message when you come out. I am at coffee.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
David Wilson, emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, believes it's unlikely that the report will reverse hard-baked opinions.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Understanding those strategies could provide valuable clues about longevity, according to Peter Sudmant, a Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology who studies the genetics of aging and lifespan.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Her dad is a professor, too, but he’s on something called sabbatical.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
The professors updated their study in 2023 and reached similar results.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
More than three-fourths of the 64 professors who are moving to Canada from around the world will come from the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
As universities crack down on AI, extreme monitoring policies and false accusations are fueling a deep mistrust between professors and students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Students who, unlike the supervising professors, were doing nothing to hide their amusement at our situation as they laughed and pointed.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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