assistant professor
noun
: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor
assistant professorship
noun
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Chávez and Mónica Jiménez, assistant professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the university, were among a group of UT Austin professors who spent months pushing back against SB 17 during the last legislative session.
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Char Adams, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
The lab’s principal investigator and assistant professor of wildlife ecology and management Bradley Cohen pointed out in a reply to a commenter that mallards usually migrate at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 feet at night.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2024
Alex Barnard is an assistant professor of sociology at New York University.
—Alex Barnard, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
The idea with remote patient intervention is that an AI will act on those troves of data to deliver care, and Vakili and co-first author Ashwin Nayak, who is also an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, have started a company called UpDoc to develop and commercialize their approach.
—Simar Bajaj, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
Human labor is expensive, and the salaries of security engineers have increased in recent years due to the shortage of talent, said Unal Tatar, assistant professor of cybersecurity at the State University of New York at Albany who has worked in the field for two decades.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
The study modeled many different climate scenarios for the decades ahead, said Kirti Rajagopalan, another author, and an assistant professor in WSU’s Department of Biological Systems Engineering.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Kendall Youngman, assistant professor of medical imaging and radiation sciences, was elected as first alternate for the computed tomography chapter delegate position.
—Danny Shameer, arkansasonline.com, 30 Mar. 2024
For women specifically, there may be some additional risks, though the body of research is much smaller in this regard, says Dr. Elise Boden, an assistant professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
Char Adams, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
The lab’s principal investigator and assistant professor of wildlife ecology and management Bradley Cohen pointed out in a reply to a commenter that mallards usually migrate at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 feet at night.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2024
Alex Barnard is an assistant professor of sociology at New York University.
—Alex Barnard, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
The idea with remote patient intervention is that an AI will act on those troves of data to deliver care, and Vakili and co-first author Ashwin Nayak, who is also an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, have started a company called UpDoc to develop and commercialize their approach.
—Simar Bajaj, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
Human labor is expensive, and the salaries of security engineers have increased in recent years due to the shortage of talent, said Unal Tatar, assistant professor of cybersecurity at the State University of New York at Albany who has worked in the field for two decades.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
The study modeled many different climate scenarios for the decades ahead, said Kirti Rajagopalan, another author, and an assistant professor in WSU’s Department of Biological Systems Engineering.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Kendall Youngman, assistant professor of medical imaging and radiation sciences, was elected as first alternate for the computed tomography chapter delegate position.
—Danny Shameer, arkansasonline.com, 30 Mar. 2024
For women specifically, there may be some additional risks, though the body of research is much smaller in this regard, says Dr. Elise Boden, an assistant professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
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