--- 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. 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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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