Word: professorship
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Herchel Smith, developer of the first synthetic oral contraceptive who died last December, has bequeathed a sum to the University that will create a new professorship in molecular genetics...
...gift will fund the Herchel Smith Harvard Scholarship for postgraduate study at Cambridge University and encourage an exchange program between Cambridge and Harvard postgraduates. The money will create Harvard’s first professorship in molecular genetics and also fund additional professorships in computer sciences, physics and mathematics...
Over the last 17 years, Smith’s earlier donations have sponsored a year of science and mathematics study at Cambridge University for nearly 40 postgraduates. And in 1992 he endowed the Herchel Smith professorship in molecular biology, currently held by Nancy E. Kleckner...
...Rubalcava refers to “a few outstanding professors, my peers...my extracurriculars and Eliot House” as the reasons why he loves Harvard. Would any of them have been possible without alumni support for professorship endowments, financial aid, student groups and the Houses? It comes from giving alumni who remember their college years with fondness and want the same for the students of today. These alumni aren’t giving to the administration—they are giving to the students...
...over a coffee in the Ateneo, Barcelona's leading cultural forum. Jamal is now 50 and married to a Catalan. He has three children, a lucrative practice as a dermatologist in Barcelona, a second degree in history and geography, a seat on the board of the Ateneo and a professorship in cultural diversity at the Catalan University of Vic. As if that were not enough, he also gives classes in Arab cooking...