professor
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"All the things that we were promised since the 1950s, of space travel and flying cars... he's doing all of those things," said Andrew Selepak, a social media professor at the University of Florida.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
"If you look at the finances of some of the broadcasters, they're losing money," says Kieran Maguire, associate professor of football finance at the University of Liverpool.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor forced to leave his job over sexual-harassment allegations won a defamation lawsuit against his accuser, with a jury ordering her to pay him $6 million in damages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
The research was conducted in the laboratory of Yang Dan, a professor of neuroscience and of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
I wait until he’s out of sight before crossing the street, wondering why the professor seemed so strange, and who he was visiting.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
The breach caused the company, Instructure, to temporarily take Canvas offline and interrupted classes, assignments and finals preparations for hundreds of thousands of students and professors as hackers threatened to release their personal data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
As aging sewer networks struggle with growing populations and changing weather patterns, a team of engineers and professors in Europe is developing a robot designed to detect and potentially address problems before disaster strikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The university's Faculty Senate, a governing body comprised of professors and other academic staff, will vote on a resolution of no confidence next week, according to reports.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
My English teachers and literature professors were probably too tired to parse such nuance, and I don’t blame them.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
None of my professors at BYU had examined my writing the way Professor Steinberg did.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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