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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Hippidae — the mole crabs or sand crabs.

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Examples

  • Emerita Barbara Novak , class of 1950, with a $25,000 gift to the annual scholarship dinner and auction to be held April 6.

    Barnard Alumna Shows Art of Giving Melanie Grayce West 2011

  • Elizabeth Anne Hull, Frederik's wife for the last 25 years, Professor Emerita from Harper College in Palatine, IL has been honored as a Distinguished Faculty by her own college, by the Thomas Clareson Award for service to SF research and teaching by the Science Fiction Research Association (of which she is a past president), and by the Northwestern University Alumni Award for service to her profession.

    MIND MELD: The Funniest Writers in the History of SF/F 2009

  • Many are in the Mediterranean the locations called Kappara or Cappara, like in Malta, in Spain a road that start from Cappara leads to Emerita.

    The Minoan name for Minoa 2010

  • She served as dean until 1989 and became a Professor Emerita in 2003.

    Personal Information for Joan Burstyn 2010

  • There was one woman among the six awardees: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Professor Emerita of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Wins National Medal of Science Peggy 2008

  • Gerda Lerner, Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded the nation's first masters degree program in women's history in 1972 and subsequently established a doctoral program in women's history at her university.

    Celebration of 350 Years of Jewish Women—Honorary Committee 2010

  • She was to become Professor Emerita at CUNY, where she taught ethnomusicology for many years.

    We Remember - Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916 - 2007 2010

  • She served as dean until 1989 and became a Professor Emerita in 2003.

    Personal Information for Joan Burstyn Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • There was one woman among the six awardees: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Professor Emerita of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Peggy 2008

  • In 1992, at age seventy-one, Yalow officially retired and became Senior Medical Investigator Emerita at the VA Hospital.

    Rosalyn Yalow. 2009

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