ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does associate professor mean? 

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

1. a teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

 Context examples 

“Potential fisheries catches will decrease by more than 50 per cent in many regions in the South Pacific,” says William Cheung, associate professor, University of British Columbia.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

We saw the most remarkable growth when we closed the good eye, forcing the mice to look through the injured eye,” said Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University School of Medicine’s department of neurobiology.###!!!###

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)

We found that people who habitually accept their negative emotions experience fewer negative emotions, which adds up to better psychological health, said study senior author Iris Mauss, an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.

(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is important news for families who have had a young family member suffer a sudden cardiac death, for them to know a genetic cause has been identified, said Paré, who is an associate professor of pathology and molecular medicine with the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

(Gene Causes Sudden Death in Young People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Jennifer Laurent, an associate professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Vermont said: Our results show an important connection; that kids with higher BMI tend to have a thinner cerebral cortex, especially in the prefrontal area.

(Obesity Can Affect Kids’ Working Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

While getting the right nutrients in the right quantities from food was associated with a longer life, the same wasn’t true for nutrients from supplements, says study co-author Fang Fang Zhang, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

(Healthy Diet Can't Be Replaced by Vitamins, Supplements, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The mice become metabolically hyperactive and, even when consuming a diet very high in fat and sugar, are able to resist metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and atherosclerosis, said the study’s lead researcher Filip Swirski, Ph.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

(Some gut cells slow down metabolism, accelerate cardiovascular disease, National Institutes of Health)

'This type of technology is exactly what we want to use in the future to look for signs of life on an Earth-like planet,' said Dimitri Mawet, an associate professor of astronomy at Caltech.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Giles, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, tells that the finding was most prominent during the early to middle of the night and at dawn, when people are least protected by the barrier of a bed net.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)

Yaser Sheikh, associate professor of robotics, said these methods for tracking 2-D human form and motion open up new ways for people and machines to interact with each other, and for people to use machines to better understand the world around them.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)