associate professor
noun
: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor
associate professorship
noun
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Use mouthwash only once per day, advised Brian Bostick, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.
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Laura Bradley, Health, 3 June 2026
The winning pairs are associate professor Sung Han and graduate student Rachel Felix; assistant professor Daniel Hollern and student Monika Quackenbush; and associate professor Graham McVicker and student Han Chen.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
The Elon factor Shaun Davies is an associate professor of finance at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 2 June 2026
Anthropologist David Samson, the book’s author and an associate professor at the University of Toronto, has scaled trees to study chimpanzee beds and visited remote tribes to understand how the story of human sleep unfolded.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 1 June 2026
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Laura Bradley, Health, 3 June 2026
The winning pairs are associate professor Sung Han and graduate student Rachel Felix; assistant professor Daniel Hollern and student Monika Quackenbush; and associate professor Graham McVicker and student Han Chen.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
The Elon factor Shaun Davies is an associate professor of finance at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 2 June 2026
Anthropologist David Samson, the book’s author and an associate professor at the University of Toronto, has scaled trees to study chimpanzee beds and visited remote tribes to understand how the story of human sleep unfolded.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 1 June 2026
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“Associate professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/associate%20professor. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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