LC Faculty TT/TN 12m

Position Details

Position Title: Assistant Professor
College/Division: Arts and Sciences
College Department: 330350-BIOLOGY
Location: Las Cruces
Target Hourly/Salary Rate: Commensurate with Qualifications
Appointment: Full-time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Bargaining Unit Announcement: This is NOT a bargaining unit position with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in Microbiology and related areas.
• Develop an independent research program that will provide avenues for grant funding.
• Mentorship of undergraduate and graduate student research.
• Productivity in scholarship, as measured by publications or other creative venues.
• Affiliate with multiple undergraduate academic issues including departmental committee assignments, advising of undergraduate majors, and departmental decisions made by all faculty.
• Participate in externally funded student training programs (G-RISE, U-RISE, McNair and LS-AMP).
• Access the Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research site and apply for research support from faculty development programs such as the NM-INBRE and U54 PARC programs.

Qualifications Required

• PhD in Biology or related life science
• Minimum of 1 yr Postdoctoral research experience or the equivalent
• Research Productivity commensurate with experience
• Prior teaching experience desirable
• The Department is broadly interested in candidates whose research focuses on the interactions between symbiotic or pathogenic microbes and their animal hosts, using state-of the field approaches.
• Applicants with expertise in the use of mammalian models is especially desirable

Preferred Qualifications

• Teaching undergraduate and graduate students, student mentorship, research area of expertise (Microbiology, host-microbe interactions)
• Experience in transforming research concepts and ideas into research design

Skills

• Teaching undergraduate and graduate students
• Student mentorship
• Research area of expertise (Microbiology, host-microbe interactions)
• Experience in service to their discipline

Special Certification/Licensure

Not specified

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

• Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
• No or very limited physical effort required.
• No or very limited exposure to physical risk.