Chemistry

Assistant Professor

The Department of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in Fall 2010.  Candidates with training in bioorganic or biophysical chemistry are especially encouraged to apply.  The successful candidate will teach courses at the introductory and advanced levels depending on the areas of expertise and conduct active, externally-funded research with undergraduate majors in biological chemistry.  Excellent facilities for research are available – NMR (400 and 300 MHz), FTIR, AFM, SEM, TEM, DLS, spectrofluorimeter, microcalorimeter, GC-MS, HPLC and a suite of molecular modeling workstations – housed in a recently constructed integrated science complex. 

Application Instructions

Interested candidates should submit a CV, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a research plan, and arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted online at http://jobsearch.mtholyoke.edu . Review of applications will begin immediately. The deadline for applications is October 1, 2009.

Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college for women with 2,100 students and 210 faculty.  Half the faculty are women; one fourth are persons of color.  It is located about 80 miles west of Boston in the Connecticut River valley, and is a member of the Five College Consortium consisting of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts.  Mount Holyoke is committed to fostering multicultural diversity and awareness in its faculty, staff, and student body and is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.  Women and persons of color are especially encouraged to apply.

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