Sentences with phrase «retired professor made»

How one retired professor made a fortune by co-authoring a textbook that would shape how generations of MBA students learned finance.

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Retiring University of Western Australia transport Professor John Taplin has advocated the introduction of a congestion tax in the CBD as one way to reduce traffic problems and make public transport more attractive.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

In the autumn of AD 386, a thirty - two - year - old academic superstar named Aurelius Augustinus made a radical move: He resigned his position as imperial professor of rhetoric in Milan and retired early.

Efforts to reach MEM Enterprises were unsuccessful, however, based upon inquiries made by City & State, it appears that the company's address is the same as that of the senator's brother, Marvin Maziarz, a retired Niagara County Community College professor.

The dense foliage may have made it difficult for infrared technology to pick up human heat signatures, said Raymond Philo, a Utica College professor of criminal justice and cybersecurity who retired as chief of the New Hartford Police Department, Oneida County, in 2010 after a 30 - year law enforcement career.

«Simply put, the compound turns - off the sperm's ability to swim, significantly limiting fertilization capabilities,» said lead investigator Michael O'Rand, PhD, retired professor of cell biology and physiology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and president / CEO of Eppin Pharma, Inc. «This makes EP055 an ideal candidate for non-hormonal male contraception.»

The government made an «excellent» decision, says Gurdev Khush, who recently retired from the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, and is now an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis.

Being a rotator can be a heady experience for an academic, says John Conway, who recently retired as a mathematics professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «When you first start work here you are often told that you make recommendations only,» Conway wrote in 2005 about serving as a program officer (PO) in NSF's division of mathematics sciences.

In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Thayer, a cranky 80 - year - old retired professor, making his annual pilgrimage with his wife Katharine Hepburn (in her only teaming with Henry Fonda) to their New England summer cottage.

The other half of the tale's setup sees Dumbledore and Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) making a visit to retired professor Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) in an attempt to have him return to the school.

Volunteer Esther Hyneman, a retired literature professor, teaches classes in New York for Afghan immigrants and has herself made four war time trips to Afghanistan.

Henry is sixty - seven, a retired professor and a widower who has been told a warmer climate would make the end more tolerable.

He's made Montreal his home since he was a teenager, when his father retired from his job as a chemistry professor.

Antonio Zichichi, who is also a retired professor of advanced physics at the University of Bologna, made this assertion today in an address delivered to an international congress sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

«As [Lindzen's] colleagues at MIT in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, all of whom are actively involved in understanding climate, we write to make it clear that this is not a view shared by us, or by the overwhelming majority of other scientists who have devoted their professional lives to careful study of climate science,» said the letter, signed by current and retired MIT professors.

Aside from observing a polite debate between one professor who wanted to make all the students watch the Al Gore movie and another who felt it was inappropriate because it was not our field and the movie was controversial, I largely ignored the issue until I retired.

The decision was made by a senior judge of the Ontario court, sitting on the specialized Commercial List, Mr. Justice Cumming (now retired), a former law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Since starting my RE investment plan a little over a year ago, I now have 6 units... and I'm laser focused on getting to 20 + units over the next few years so I can finally «retire» from the academic cult (it makes you wonder how professors at business schools get the nerve to teach MBAs when most don't have any significant wealth themselves... those are my colleagues but I digress!)