assistant professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor

assistant professorship noun

Examples of assistant professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Cani, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the Touro College of Pharmacy in Manhattan, was five-and-a-half-months pregnant. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Led by Rassoul Tabassian, an assistant professor in Aarhus University’s Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, the team hopes the technology could eventually allow people with prosthetic limbs to experience a sense of touch. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

To best protect the environment and your plants, Ankit Singh, assistant professor and ornamental horticulture educator at the University of Maine Extension, recommends using plain brown paper grocery bags as mulch. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026

Even before entering a doctoral program, Mazzolai was promoted to assistant professor in 2004 and shortly afterward made her first foray into bioinspired robotics. — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for assistant professor

• aggressor
• assessor
• compressor
• confessor
• depressor
• hairdresser
• necessar
• oppressor
• possessor
• processor
• repressor
• successor