Word: professorship
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...After earning a Ph.D. in history from Harvard in 1947, Fleming began to carve out his place in academia—teaching history at Brown for 11 years and history of science at Yale for a year before beginning 41 years of professorship at Harvard, retiring...
...poor monetary policy for exacerbating the Depression—Bernanke famously said, “Regarding the Great Depression, you are right, we did it. We are very sorry.” After finishing graduate school, Bernanke held teaching positions at MIT and Stanford Business School before taking a professorship at Princeton, where he would eventually ascend to the chairmanship of the economics department. There, he built a reputation for consensus-building and for the ability to manage contentious committees, skills that likely translated well to his current duties as chair of the Federal Open Market Committee...
...Eliot House dining hall Monday to celebrate a new initiate.Former University President Lawrence H. Summers arrived nine minutes after the event’s scheduled start time, and was swiftly rewarded with testaments from students who took the podium to recall the high points of his presidency and professorship. The recollections ranged from Summers’ work on financial aid, to his support for undergraduate student events, to the famous appearances at student dances that marked his tenure in the University’s top spot.The event featured no prepared remarks from Summers—who said he would leave...
...Khan, whose 50th Harvard reunion is this week, has donated millions to the University in the past, endowing a professorship and a chair, and supporting library and museum programs...
...Government professor Steven R. Levitsky never thought he had a shot at a senior professorship...