associate professor

noun

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

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In a November 2024 article published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Daniel Martin, an associate professor of economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, spoke about the MLB and Hawk-Eye, a strike zone monitoring AI. Brian Roberts, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 Peter Cohan, associate professor of management practice at Babson College, lauded the coming menu changes as a step in the right direction for the coffee company, but said this move alone won't be enough to turn the brand around. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025 In a research letter published in JAMA on Feb. 20, Dr. John Mafi, associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and his colleagues used Canadian data to explore what happened when people took Paxlovid. Alice Park, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025 Nick Bednar, an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota who specializes in executive branch politics, says that what makes this moment different is how quickly and indiscriminately the layoffs are happening. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for associate professor

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of associate professor was in 1819

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“Associate professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/associate%20professor. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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