--- title: LEGO Professor at Cambridge Has Been Proposed description: Cambridge could hire a Professor of LEGO. canonical: https://time.com/3921887/lego-cambridge-professor/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-16T14:44:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:40.147Z og:title: Cambridge Could Get a Professor of LEGO og:description: Cambridge could hire a Professor of LEGO. og:url: https://time.com/3921887/lego-cambridge-professor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22a54642426fb588/698854af2dce0103c79e4310/gettyimages-491780933.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 491780933 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cambridge Could Get a Professor of LEGO twitter:description: Cambridge could hire a Professor of LEGO. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22a54642426fb588/698854af2dce0103c79e4310/gettyimages-491780933.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A LEGO Professorship Has Been Proposed at Cambridge ## Video: Baby Prince George's First Royal Duty: An Adorable Playdate [Watch (HLS stream): Baby Prince George's First Royal Duty: An Adorable Playdate](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZpNahEVl.m3u8) (1:12)  _Published 2014-04-09. In his first adorable act of public duty, baby Prince George joined his parents and several other families for a group playdate in New Zealand Wednesday._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 16, 2015 2:44 PM UTC  What a LEGO seminar could look like. What a LEGO seminar could look like.Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 16, 2015 2:44 PM UTC The University of Cambridge may get a professor of LEGO. If approved, a LEGO Professorship of Play in Education, Development would be established in October 2015, according to the [_Cambridge University Reporter_](http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2014-15/weekly/6390/section5.shtml#heading2-17). The position would be funded by a £2.5 million (about $4 million) endowment from the LEGO Foundation, which would also be used to create a Research Centre on Play in Education, Development, and Learning (PEDaL) that this LEGO professor would run. 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