ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assistant professor mean? 

• ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (noun)
  The noun ASSISTANT PROFESSOR has 1 sense:

1. a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor

  Familiarity information: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher or lower rank than an associate professor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("assistant professor" is a kind of...):

prof; professor (someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university)

 Context examples 

An assistant professor of physics at Syracuse University is studying these materials, searching for the defects in each that produce a crack-like fissure called a shear band.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

This point-of-collection approach to water treatment could be a transformative strategy for reducing gastro-intestinal disease burden in low-income urban communities, said Pickering, assistant professor at Tufts University in the US.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Nathalie de Leon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University and the lead researcher, said the diamonds could serve as quantum repeaters for networks based on qubits.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Sidy Ndao, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, said his research group's development of a nano-thermal-mechanical device, or thermal diode, came after flipping around the question of how to better cool computers.

(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A discovery made by Junhwan Kim, PhD, assistant professor at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, is challenging science's longstanding beliefs regarding the cellular makeup of the brain.

(Discovery Challenges Belief about Brain's Cellular Makeup, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"The two vital micronutrients are highly protective and they decrease blood pressure," Maria Argos, study author and assistant professor at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago.

(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)

Asthma is an immune-mediated disease, said Sonali Bose, M.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins.

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)

You could have had kilometer-thick piles of moon sediment raining down on Mars in the early parts of the planet's history, and there are enigmatic sedimentary deposits on Mars with no explanation as to how they got there, said Purdue's David Minton, assistant professor of Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

Robin Wordsworth, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering, said: "Early Mars is unique in the sense that it's the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)