The phrase "a recent assignment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a task or project that was given or completed not long ago.
Example: "I just finished a recent assignment for my history class that required extensive research."
Alternatives: "a recent task" or "a recent project".
A recent assignment in the Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven demonstrated the point.
For instance, a recent assignment entailed learning about fractions by using an app called "Factor Samurai".
He joined the agency in 2006 and served in Laredo, Tex., before a recent assignment to Mexico City.
Since then he has held a variety of counterintelligence positions, including a recent assignment identifying Russian spies working in diplomatic missions in the United States.
For reporting in the field, I had a Sony ICD-PX470 voice recorder with a built-in USB that was the slimmest, most unobtrusive device — until I dropped it on a recent assignment.
For a recent assignment, she had been given an analytical rundown of a jackfruit — a list of more than ninety of its volatile chemicals, identified by a gas chromatograph — and built a flavor solely on that information.
Residues V434 and F450, both in the 'stem', are near the N-terminus of a membrane-embedded helix ('helix 2' in older terminology; 'α3' in the more recent assignment from fitting a high-resolution cryoEM map) and at the junction between stem and transmembrane anchor, respectively.
Having done work at Ithaca around the topic, his most recent assignment centred on a photo project showing the diversity of Latinos in America.
In his most recent assignment, he led a Cisco team responsible for analyzing customer sentiment and experience, create insights and compel the business to drive improvement actions.
Her most recent assignment was to write a short memoir, and she was worried that she had no story to tell.
One recent assignment found McGonagle in a vacant office on the sixth floor of the Bank of America building in Uptown Village.
