INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS
FACULTY POSITIONS IN BIOLOGY
The Department of Biology at IUPUI (
http://www.biology.iupui.edu/) invites applications for 3 - 5 Tenure-track Faculty Positions, at any rank, to begin August 1, 2010.
We seek candidates with a firm commitment to research excellence, who complement and expand departmental and campus-wide interdisciplinary research programs in Life and Health Sciences. Areas of research specialization are open, but we are also interested in addressing undergraduate instructional needs in Genetics & Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.
Diverse opportunities for collaboration exist with faculty in the School of Science, the School of Engineering & Technology and the adjacent Indiana University School of Medicine and its state-of-the-art core facilities, as well as with scientists in nearby pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
See the "Faculty Search" file at the Biology home page (listed above) for links to IUPUI research resources.
Each applicant must have a Ph.D., with postdoctoral experience and demonstrate evidence of research excellence and the ability to initiate and maintain an externally funded research program and have a background appropriate for successful teaching, at the graduate and/or undergraduate levels.
Applicants at the Associate or Full Professor levels, must have established records of research excellence, external funding and student mentoring.
Tenure may be offered to successful senior candidates, depending on the candidates' qualifications and accomplishments.
Each applicant should submit a CV, a statement of research plans, a description of teaching experience and teaching philosophy and names and contact information for three references, as a single PDF file, to Dr. N. Douglas Lees, Chair, Faculty Search Committee, at:
biol1fac@iupui.edu
Review of applications will continue until all positions are filled.
Application review will commence on 15 November, 2009, but those received by 15 December, 2009 are assured full consideration.
Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) is Indiana’s life and health science campus, with over $300 million in research awards. IUPUI attracts over 30,000 students, offers over 180 undergraduate and 70 graduate and professional degrees and maintains an attractive urban campus.
The School of Science enrolls more than 2,300 majors, including approximately 300 M.S. or Ph.D. students.
IUPUI was recognized in the 2009 US News and World Report College Rankings as placing 7th of 77 campuses "everyone should be watching" and in the 2008 Forbes.com list of the Top 15 percent of America's Best Colleges.
Indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the U.S., is the cultural and political center of Indiana and was recently ranked as the nation’s most affordable major housing market.
