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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Patricia Jewett, an associate professor and health scientist with the University of Minnesota who focuses on firearm injury prevention, said weapons such as AR-15s can produce the greatest number of victims at an individual shooting incident.
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Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
Mische is an associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
—Michael Mische, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
For Carly York, associate professor of biology at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, who was not involved in the awards, this year’s winners deliver on their aim of making people laugh and then think.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
But the why behind a family's decision to travel when school is in session is important in weighing the pros and cons, says Robin Berman, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 17 Sep. 2025
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Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
Mische is an associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
—Michael Mische, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
For Carly York, associate professor of biology at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, who was not involved in the awards, this year’s winners deliver on their aim of making people laugh and then think.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
But the why behind a family's decision to travel when school is in session is important in weighing the pros and cons, says Robin Berman, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Associate professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/associate%20professor. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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