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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Jessica Purcell, assistant professor in the department of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, has encountered Iberian harvester ants while studying other ant species in Italy.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Raskin had come to Apple with a master's in computer science from Penn State University, six years as an assistant professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and his own consulting company.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
That organization could have been a mental health team, said UNC School of Government pretrial release expert and assistant professor of criminal law Brittany Bromell.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
Soft Tremulous Light is accompanied by the text Angles of a Landscape by Elleza Kelley, an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Raskin had come to Apple with a master's in computer science from Penn State University, six years as an assistant professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and his own consulting company.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
That organization could have been a mental health team, said UNC School of Government pretrial release expert and assistant professor of criminal law Brittany Bromell.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
Soft Tremulous Light is accompanied by the text Angles of a Landscape by Elleza Kelley, an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Assistant professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant%20professor. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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