"He was the most nurturing professor, the professor on the faculty that the undergraduates were a little more worried about than everybody else, a little bit harder to please," Mr. Kealey said.
It knits together nature and nurture, professor and student, present and future.
I was determined to continue the nurturing tradition of professors at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) by instilling confidence, knowledge, and pride.
Regarding the liberal language about "access" that permeates the discussion students from "under-represented" groups or the first in their families to go to college have a much better chance of succeeding if real human interactions with students and professors are nurtured.
In the seminar room today, Professor West seemed nurturing, sympathetic, eager for his charges to ask their own questions and find their own way.
You need to learn to be proactive, network with colleagues and professors, develop and nurture your talents, and have fun at the same time.
Although I have been working in the pharmaceutical business for more than 15 years, for all of those years I have been nurturing an ambition to become a professor and to study and teach history.
At school, professors McGonigall, Lupin and Dumbledore nurtured Harry's growing skills and talents.
A loyal mentor, Professor Pound nurtured a crop of hands-on physicists who have since done pioneering work in medical imaging, printing technology and the search for extraterrestrial life — as well as nuclear physics.
Business schools, they argued, would be better off acting more like their professional counterparts, such as medical or law schools, nurturing skilled practitioners as well as frequent publishers.However, business-school professors have an incentive not to change.
