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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To Home Prices All of these upward pressures on the cost of homeownership will reduce the desirability of living in flood-prone areas, putting downward pressure on housing demand, Cameron LaPoint, real estate expert and assistant professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, told Newsweek.
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
An analysis by some Carthage math professors found female assistant professors earned nearly $6,500 less than their male counterparts in 2022.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
Sap, the Carnegie Mellon assistant professor, said Grok was dealing with a common tension for AIs: balancing the desire to follow the user’s instructions with its own guidelines.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
Artha Gillis, a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor at UCLA who is studying a group of 147,000 youth, said there’s no way to scientifically prove that the Dozier abuse led to murder.
—The Marshall Project, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
An analysis by some Carthage math professors found female assistant professors earned nearly $6,500 less than their male counterparts in 2022.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
Sap, the Carnegie Mellon assistant professor, said Grok was dealing with a common tension for AIs: balancing the desire to follow the user’s instructions with its own guidelines.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
Artha Gillis, a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor at UCLA who is studying a group of 147,000 youth, said there’s no way to scientifically prove that the Dozier abuse led to murder.
—The Marshall Project, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
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“Assistant professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant%20professor. Accessed 28 Jul. 2025.
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