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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Finding short fragments of DNA less than 40 base pairs long is an initial positive indicator of older DNA, but other environmental factors might be at play, according to Elena Irene Zavala, an assistant professor in forensic genetics at the University of Copenhagen.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Abdelhadi is an assistant professor in the school's Department of Comparative Human Development, and as of Wednesday, her faculty profile page was still live.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
The six-class course is taught by Agnieszka August-Zarebska, an assistant professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
The project was co-led by Alyosha Molnar, the Ilda and Charles Lee Professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Sunwoo Lee, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University who began developing the technology while working in Molnar’s lab.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Abdelhadi is an assistant professor in the school's Department of Comparative Human Development, and as of Wednesday, her faculty profile page was still live.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
The six-class course is taught by Agnieszka August-Zarebska, an assistant professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
—La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
The project was co-led by Alyosha Molnar, the Ilda and Charles Lee Professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Sunwoo Lee, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University who began developing the technology while working in Molnar’s lab.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
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