According to a prospectus prepared by the professor, the class is devoted to an examination of "gendered human differences from prehistory to the present" and "cross-cultural examples of gender in the division of labor, access to productive and reproductive resources, and the exercise of political power".
Falun Gong is threatening to China's leadership precisely because it includes a remarkable cross section of people -- peasants and professors, rich and poor -- devoted to an organization that is not the Chinese Communist Party.
Even the formidable Roberta Maxwell, in the role of Márya, Vanya's bluestocking mother who's exasperatingly devoted to the professor, fades into the background.
This special issue is devoted to professor Toshihiko Ubuka (1934 2008), a distinguished Japanese biochemist who, in his scientific life, researched the metabolism and function of cysteine, sulfur nutrition, modification and renaturation of proteins and the possible significance of cysteine metabolites in antioxidation processes in liver cell mitochondria.
Writing in a special issue of Science devoted to urban issues, professor Daniel Kammen and postdoctoral fellow Deborah Sunter explore the potential for using renewable energy technologies in urban areas to promote low-carbon, resilient and livable cities.
British-born professor John Quelch heads an office devoted to getting more professors to research case studies abroad, at outposts of the school.
Precious little space was devoted to Professor Gates's work, and entirely too much was spent on what others thought about his career.
This particular text is devoted to Professor Nikolay Banichuk and was presented on his 70th birthday.
Sandy-haired, a wiry marathon runner, Dr. O'Mahony is the sixth of eight children; his father is a university professor devoted to preserving Gaelic as a second language, and his mother a painter.
"She was devoted to her students," said Adam Elga, a professor of philosophy at Princeton who met Fara when they were both graduate students at MIT. "She was not only philosophically cool, but also, just plain cool," Elga said about their time in graduate school.
As a Latin American, he has more "communitarian" values than his predecessors and is single-mindedly devoted to the poor, said Timothy Matovina, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and co-director of the school's Institute for Latino Studies.
