Word: emeritus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dick Vancil was that rare combination of an inspiring teacher, an academic who made important contributions to management theory and a practical businessman who started and grew a company that became a leader in its industry," said HBS Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in a statement issues by the Business School last week...
...poverty. Democrats warn that, with caps and limits, the poor will be devastated. Counters Besharov: "Do a lot of states have Governors who want mothers sleeping on grates? No." Could it be that giving the poor less is a way of giving them more? Daniel Bell, professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard, speaks for the skeptics: "These things have real cultural roots. They take generational time to solve. The notion of taking the poor off welfare as a sort of cold bath is nonsense. I'm not arguing for the current situation. No one would. But nobody knows what...
...specializing in child development who first joined the Medical School as an instructor of pediatrics in 1953. After becoming a clinical associate in 1966 and an assistant clinical professor in 1969, Brazelton served as chief of Children's child development unit from 1972 to 1989. He is now an emeritus professor of pediatrics and can claim 26 books and more than 180 scientific articles and chapters to his credit...
...journeyed to Palestine and identified hundreds of ancient sites by questioning Arabs, who had preserved the traditional names for centuries. Robinson pinpointed Masada. He found a monumental arch supporting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. "He did more than anybody before or after for biblical topography," says Magen Broshi, curator emeritus of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
Archaeology tells a more complicated tale. Historians generally agree that Joshua's conquest would have taken place in the 13th century B.C. But British researcher Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated at Jericho for six years, found no evidence of destruction at that time. Indeed, says Dead Sea Scrolls curator emeritus Broshi, "the city was deserted from the beginning of the 15th century until the 11th century B.C." So was Ai, say Broshi and others. And so, according to archaeological surveys, was most of the land surrounding the cities. Says Broshi: "The central hill regions of Judea and Samaria were practically uninhabited...