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a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university
a professor of chemistry Professor Williams will be teaching the class.
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Clearly, recruiting and retaining the best professors required making accommodations for their spouses.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Treadwell said that throughout the school year, her professors have warned against the use of ChatGPT in writing assignments.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
Solving professors’ two-body problems makes this feasible, by keeping faculty more engaged with campus life.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Economics professors often teach that there are two elasticities, one for that period when capital equipment is fixed (short run) and one for the period when capital is variable (long run).
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Economics professors warned in a study last month that the repeal of the EV tax credits could decrease sales of electric vehicles by up to 27% and leases could shrink by more than half.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The consulting firm produced a report about the product and tapped three university professors with expertise in pharmacology, toxicology and food science to weigh in.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Despite her efforts to gain the acceptance of her peers, professors and The Wizard, her outspoken criticisms of new Ozian laws that strip the rights of animals place a target on her back.
—Tamia Fowlkes, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
Our parents were professors, and our grandparents as well.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Treadwell said that throughout the school year, her professors have warned against the use of ChatGPT in writing assignments.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
Solving professors’ two-body problems makes this feasible, by keeping faculty more engaged with campus life.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Economics professors often teach that there are two elasticities, one for that period when capital equipment is fixed (short run) and one for the period when capital is variable (long run).
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Economics professors warned in a study last month that the repeal of the EV tax credits could decrease sales of electric vehicles by up to 27% and leases could shrink by more than half.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The consulting firm produced a report about the product and tapped three university professors with expertise in pharmacology, toxicology and food science to weigh in.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Despite her efforts to gain the acceptance of her peers, professors and The Wizard, her outspoken criticisms of new Ozian laws that strip the rights of animals place a target on her back.
—Tamia Fowlkes, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
Our parents were professors, and our grandparents as well.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
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