assistant professor

noun

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

assistant professorship noun

Examples of assistant professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Today's pachanga is for Regina Mills, assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University! —

Russell Contreras, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024 Members include OpenAI’s Mira Murati, assistant professor Zhang Linghan (who has been leading China’s AI policy response), and Gill himself. —

Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024 Rights & Permissions Jacqueline Nesi is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Brown University, author of the newsletter Techno Sapiens, and co-founder of Tech Without Stress. —

Jacqueline Nesi, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2024 Quincy Law is an assistant professor of horticulture at Iowa State University. —

Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for assistant professor

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Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of assistant professor was in 1827

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