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noun

a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.

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Origin of assistant professor

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

OTHER WORDS FROM assistant professor

assistant professorship, noun

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How to use assistant professor in a sentence

“You gotta be okay with okay,” David Daum, an assistant professor of kinesiology at San Jose State University in California, said he tells teachers.
Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic physical education is not canceled|Kelly Field|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
I’m an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Utah.
Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question? (Ep. 451)|Stephen J. Dubner|February 11, 2021|Freakonomics
“We’re standing at an inflection point,” said Sam Scarpino, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.
Why Opening Restaurants Is Exactly What the Coronavirus Wants Us to Do|Caroline Chen|February 6, 2021|ProPublica
I asked Jeni Stolow, a social behavioral scientist and assistant professor in the Temple University College of Public Health, why things feel worse to me now than earlier in the pandemic.
Getting a coronavirus vaccine appointment fills me with despair. Every search ends in frustration, and I’m at a low point of a long, dark year.|Marlene Cimons|February 5, 2021|Washington Post

The theory also matches other puzzling observations, according to Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist who helped discover RSL as an undergraduate and is now an assistant professor at Rutgers University.
Mars’s mascara-like streaks may be caused by slush and landslides|Charlie Wood|February 3, 2021|Popular-Science
Molly Worthen is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Did the Southern Baptist ‘Conservative Resurgence’ Fail?|Molly Worthen|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Do you know Richard Bargis, assistant professor of philosophy at your alma mater?
How to Make Frenemies on LinkedIn|Kelly Williams Brown|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Brian E. McGeeney, MD, MPH, is a neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine.
Longtime Sufferers of Cluster Headaches Find Relief in Psychedelics|Valerie Vande Panne|February 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Gregory Weiner, assistant professor of political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.
Obama’s Second-Term Crisis|David Freedlander|January 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“It was exhilarating,” says the University of Wisconsin assistant professor of arts education.
Scott Walker's Last Stand? Democrats Lose Momentum In Wisconsin|Sally Kohn|June 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He graduated as a lieutenant in 1852, and for some years was attached to the staff college as an assistant professor.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2|Various
He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8|Various
Again was Albert sent back to Cologne, and Thomas was made his assistant professor.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume V|John Lord
He served on topographical duty, and for a few months he was assistant professor at the Academy.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler|Elizabeth Robins Pennell
"I believe it is iodine," the assistant professor replied, frigidly.
Ann Arbor Tales|Karl Edwin Harriman

British Dictionary definitions for assistant professor

assistant professor

noun

US and Canadian a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor

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