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associate professor

noun

Definition of associate professor

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

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According to the The Commercial Appeal, Strom also worked as an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. CBS News, "What we know about the California boat fire victims," 6 Sep. 2019 He was promoted to associate professor in 1976 and full professor in 1979. Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, "Richard Van Duyne, Northwestern chemistry professor who studied information transfer via minuscule structures, dies," 5 Sep. 2019 On Monday evening, Dave Karpf, an associate professor at George Washington University, tweeted the joke at the columnist’s expense. Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, "Bret Stephens's Bedbug Controversy Shows How Too Many Free Speech Champions Are All Talk," 28 Aug. 2019 Notably, John Ross, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation at the time, was strongly against removal, according to Julie Reed, an associate professor at Pennsylvania State and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. oregonlive, "Cherokee Nation picks rep. for Congress, promised by US government nearly 200 years ago," 26 Aug. 2019 Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Department of Energy and Process Engineering, challenged what is known as the Kelvinangle in boat wakes. David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "How One Physicist Solved a 127-Year-Old Wave Riddle," 21 Aug. 2019 Alongside the mapping work, a team led by Kimball Erdman, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, is also creating a cultural landscape inventory (CLI) of the Carlsbad Caverns' modern history. Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, "3-D Map to Digitize Part of Carlsbad Caverns Down to the Millimeter," 19 Aug. 2019 Kudless is currently an associate professor of architecture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, as well as founder of the design firm Matsys. Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle, "Hines pledges financial gift to UH architecture professorship," 14 Aug. 2019 Michael Brown, an associate professor at Monash University’s school of physics and astronomy told the New York Post of Asteroid 2019 OK. Fox News, "Asteroid size of Empire State Building set to fly by Earth next week," 2 Aug. 2019

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First Known Use of associate professor

1819, in the meaning defined above

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associate professor

noun

English Language Learners Definition of associate professor

: a teacher at a U.S. college or university who has a rank above an assistant professor and below a full professor