university professor

American  

noun

1. a professor entitled to teach courses in more than one field or discipline at a university.

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Etymology

Origin of university professor

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Andrews Whelton, a Purdue University professor who researches natural disasters, estimated that soil testing and further remediation for the Eaton and Palisades fire would cost between $40 million to $70 million.

From Los Angeles Times

To understand what’s at stake, The Conversation turned to Cristina Bodea, a Michigan State University professor who has been studying central bank best practices for more than two decades.

From Salon

A month later, I had dinner with a university professor who told me he had a GPU – a powerful computer processor used to drive AI – under his desk.

From BBC

University professor Xavier Crettiez admits that he doesn't know the real names of many of the students on his course.

From BBC

“We’d go back and give what’s left of our life so that future generations can have a decent country, a country that we once had with democracy,” said César Pastrán, 63, a former university professor in Venezuela who now works in a call center in Chile.

From The Wall Street Journal