Definition of "associate professor" []

• A college or university professor who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor. (noun)

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• "The researcher they are lauding is the slightly sheepish but smiling Dr. Douglas Kerr, associate professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and principal investigator on this groundbreaking stem-cell study that recently rocked the scientific world."
• "Around that time, Vena left the University at Buffalo and turned the project over to Carlos Crespo, an associate professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the university, who had worked in minority health epidemiology both at the National Institutes of Health and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
• "The researchers also apologized to patients with diabetes: Based on an interview with Denise Faustman, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, October 21, 2006."