assistant professor
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- assistant professorship noun
Etymology
Origin of assistant professor
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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"These vascular measures are capturing something meaningful about brain health," said Meredith N. Braskie, PhD, senior author of the study and assistant professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine.
From Science Daily
For women like Lauren Aulet, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, the files revealed conversations that were more brash than she expected.
From Salon
“You have large-scale gatherings of people for harvest days and feast days,” says Samuel Backer, assistant professor of history at the University of Maine.
James Fletcher, assistant professor of digital futures at the University of Bath, has spent more than a decade researching how people with dementia use technology in everyday life.
“These social changes exist in a legal gray area,” said Andrew Leber, an assistant professor at Tulane University and a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program.
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