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

The findings may have broader implications beyond planetary defense, notes Masatoshi Hirabayashi, another DART scientist who was not directly involved with the new study and an associate professor in aerospace engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. —Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026

Trina Hope, director of the University of Oklahoma’s criminal justice program and an associate professor of sociology, said research often points to a mismatch between how police are trained and what most officers encounter on the job. —Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 5 Mar. 2026

Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez is a presidential associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has pioneered artificial intelligence and experimental approaches that have greatly accelerated antibiotic discovery, yielding numerous preclinical candidates. —Henry Skinner, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026

For reliable sea level information, the model should be combined with real-world satellite data that can accurately measure sea height, said Philip Minderhoud, a study author and an associate professor at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. —Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 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