Word: emeritus
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...preface to Lincoln, Donald, Harvard's Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American history and American civilization, describes a meeting he had with President John F. Kennedy '40. The year was 1962, and Donald had just delivered a talk on Abraham Lincoln in the White House. Donald recalls that President Kennedy, "thinking no doubt of how his own administration would look in the backward glance of history," told him that "No one has a right to grade a President -- who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk and learned why he made...
...believe [the relationships] cause conflicts of interest and I worry seriously about these things, particularly if there is money involved," says Jerome Gross, an emeritus professor at the Medical School who sits on the scientific advisory board of Organogenesis, Inc., a biotech firm which manufactures organ replacements for transplantation...
...think that the big trend of capitalizing fiscally on the research that we do is something that I don't approve of," says Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson professor of clinical medicine emeritus at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...weeks ago, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to British Physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs that he helped found to rid the world of atomic arms. Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, Paul Doty, will get to share in that prize...
...would not have kept on teaching. The dean set up a nice situation...he built us a new building where we have own nook, our own secretaries and a place we can keep our books and can give a lecture," says Straus Professor of Business of History Emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. "He did that very much on purpose--before we had a place known, as death row where you shared an office with three or so others after you retired...