OLDEST PRACTICING PROFESSOR?

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Bradley, Gwendolyn | Copyright information

Ernest Kurnow, professor of statistics at New York University's Stern School of Business, turned 95 in October. Kurnow has been on the NYU faculty since 1948; now retired from his tenured position, he teaches a full-time load as an adjunct. Kurnow received a BS in 1932 and an MS in 1933 from City College of New York, and went on to ...

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