Sentence examples for academic chairs from inspiring English sources

With money earned from his patents, Dr. Smith endowed several academic chairs at Harvard and Cambridge.

In devotion to his alma mater, Dr. Weissman donated two academic chairs to the university.

Prof Hopwood is seeking to recruit two academic chairs and two professorships for the centre, which is aiming to teach about 40 students a year.

Together with his wife, Toby, Mr. Etkin established academic chairs and the A.J. Etkin International Seminar on Strategic Planning in Construction at the Technion.

With his wife, Mary, he made a generous gift to SUNY Downstate, establishing one of the few endowed academic chairs in honor of great surgical educators.

Ellison has taught at Rutgers University, Bard College, and the University of Chicago, and in 1970 he was named the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at New York University — one of the country's more distinguished academic chairs.

Prudential, an insurance firm, has pledged $5m to Rutgers: $3m towards the endowment of an academic chair and $2m towards a centre for business ethics and philanthropic management.

Dr Jem Bendell is professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria and academic chair of the Leading Wellbeing research festival in the Lake District 16-18 July 20155). 16-18 July 2015

Koestler left virtually his entire estate, four hundred thousand pounds, to fund an academic chair in parapsychology, and there is today a Koestler Parapsychology Unit in the psychology department at the University of Edinburgh.

He taught theology for most of the nineteen-eighties, at Cambridge and then at Oxford, where, at thirty-six, he became the youngest person ever to hold the university's oldest academic chair.

Rachel Dolezal is an academic, chair of the office of the police ombudsman commission in the city of Spokane and president of its chapter of the African American civil rights organisation NAACP.