assistant professor

noun

|Updated on: 12 Aug 2018

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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assistant professorship

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Recent Examples of assistant professor from the Web

The leader of that team is Allison Willis, an assistant professor of neurology and epidemiology at Penn.

— terri akman, Philly.com, "Parkinson's Disease may affect women differently. These researchers aim to find out why," 12 July 2018
Sara Saucedo, a paralegal in Albuquerque, teamed up with Dr. Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, an assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley who’s been involved with immigrant policy work for eight years.

— charlie lapastora, Fox News, "Volunteers travel to US-Mexico border, donating goods to refugee shelter," 10 July 2018
Isabel Martinez, an assistant professor at John Jay College, who researches and advocates for unaccompanied minors.

— jen kirby, Vox, "500 migrant kids have been reunited with their parents. Thousands are still caught in the system.," 23 June 2018
But the statistical analysis shows the law may have prevented an additional 383 suicides by gun, according to the study, led by Aaron Kivisto, an assistant professor of clinical psychology.

— jason hanna, CNN, "Laws that remove firearms from those considered a safety risk reduce gun-related suicides, study finds," 5 June 2018
Myo Thwin Myint, an assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Tulane School of Medicine, was one of the experts brought in to develop the toolkit ahead of the show's second season.

— maria clark, NOLA.com, "Are your teens watching '13 Reasons Why'? Tulane professor offers advice for parents," 1 June 2018
In a 2016 study, Jon Penney, an assistant professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia tracked traffic patterns for users accessing Wikipedia pages before and after Edward Snowden's NSA revelations in 2013.

— lily hay newman, WIRED, "The ACLU's Biggest Roadblock to Fighting Mass Surveillance," 29 June 2018
The assistant professor of astronomy at BU’s Institute for Astrophysical Research flew to Florida for the send-off.

— cindy atoji keene, BostonGlobe.com, "His Holy Grail would be detecting life on another planet," 7 June 2018
But Mary Hawk and James Egan, both assistant professors, and Chris Keane, an independent researcher, all of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, had some cautions about the new study.

— susan scutti, CNN, "Overdose antidote availability doesn't always mean fewer deaths, study says," 13 Mar. 2018

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