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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As main clinical collaborator and Columbia assistant professor of neurological surgery Brett Youngerman explains, the BISC is a vast improvement for patients needing somatic relief that a BCI should be able to provide.
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New Atlas, 1 Jan. 2026
This is not, in our own time, the psychic experience likely to be had by wandering adjuncts with short-story collections or assistant professors trying to look engaged at committee meetings in Gainesville and Champaign–Urbana.
—Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In addition to his work as an attending doctor, Moran is also an assistant professor and researcher who has been published in the American Journal of Surgery.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
The finding was presented by Adun Samathi, an assistant professor at the Walai Rukhavej Botanical Research Institute and Mahasarakham University in Thailand, at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 annual meeting in Birmingham, England.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
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New Atlas, 1 Jan. 2026
This is not, in our own time, the psychic experience likely to be had by wandering adjuncts with short-story collections or assistant professors trying to look engaged at committee meetings in Gainesville and Champaign–Urbana.
—Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In addition to his work as an attending doctor, Moran is also an assistant professor and researcher who has been published in the American Journal of Surgery.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
The finding was presented by Adun Samathi, an assistant professor at the Walai Rukhavej Botanical Research Institute and Mahasarakham University in Thailand, at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 annual meeting in Birmingham, England.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
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“Assistant professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant%20professor. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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