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...other family owners decided to create a charitable foundation. They put in $1.1 million, and Scheubeck encouraged the company's suppliers and business partners to make donations. With more than $1.4 million now in its coffers, the Scheubeck-Jansen Foundation has enough to fund its initial project: the first professorship in sensor technology at nearby Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. "We wanted to do something for the region, to set a cornerstone for a new industry cluster," says Scheubeck, 54, who chairs the foundation and serves as managing director of the family holding company...
...challenge, because he and his wife were from Europe,” Thomas said. “And the honor of being offered a German professorship, where there is only one professor per discipline, is hard to turn down...
Luraghi left behind a tenured associate position at the University of Toronto and declined a full professorship at the University Konstanz in Germany following a heavy push from Harvard to win the onetime junior professor back...
Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law at the University of Chicago who has collaborated frequently with Sen in the past, has said that Sen enjoyed teaching a full load of courses at Harvard, even though his University professorship enabled him to pursue research without teaching...
Kirshner, who chaired the astronomy department from 1990 to 1997, was elected as president of the American Astronomical Society in 2003 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He said he will probably use the money from the professorship to support his research on dark energy and the acceleration of the universe...