associate professor

noun

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

associate professorship noun

Examples of associate professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Brad Knox, a research associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, and two coauthors looked at how OpenAI graded its agents in the July test that led to the Hugging Face attack. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

The amendment would make no practical change to how North Carolinians vote, said Marcus Gadson, an associate professor of law at the UNC School of Government. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026

There are a few theories for how the chain-of-thought process works, but researchers aren’t sure which ones are correct, says Jacob Andreas, an associate professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Marc Lafrance, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, framed the shift bluntly. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for associate professor

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