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Yu Morton

professor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2024
Entity authorityQ29358508 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yu (Jade) Morton is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University from 2014 to 2017, and at Miami University of Ohio from 2000 to 2014.

Morton was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for her contributions to the understanding of ionospheric effects on global navigation satellite signals.

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“Yu Morton” enters the record as professor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Morton and professor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2017, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Morton and professor.
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“Yu Morton” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Morton and professor provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q29358508. VIAF identifies the subject as 141162365983525000000. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2017 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yu Morton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.