Definition of assistant professor
: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor
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Per Bylund is assistant professor of entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University.
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Psychiatrist Sue Varma, an assistant professor at New York University Langone Medical Center, told Reuters that there’s nothing inherently wrong with loving every last bit of Meghan Markle family gossip.
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Daniela Valdez-Jasso, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UC San Diego, has previously flown home to vote in Ecatepec outside Mexico City.
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Bowler is an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School who happens to have robust and vivid expertise in the American prosperity gospel, that televangelist-style creed preached in megachurches across the land.
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Angela Tarango, an assistant professor of religion at Trinity University who teaches a class on Latino religious traditions, said Santería believers pray both to Catholic saints and African spirits, and their rituals are not demonic.
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Jeremy Stephens, an assistant professor at the Southcentral Kentucky Community & Technical College in Bowling Green, says roughly 80 percent of repairs today are electrical, having to do with sensors and emissions-control systems.
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Probably not, says lead author Erica Feuerbacher, now assistant professor of companion animal behavior and welfare at Virginia Tech.
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Sankararaman, who was not involved in the study, has worked on Denisovan research and is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the department of computer science and the department of human genetics.
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First Known Use of assistant professor
1827
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Definition of assistant professor for English Language Learners
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: a teacher at a U.S. college or university who has a rank above an instructor and below an associate professor
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