Assistant Professor: The Department of Biology at Denison University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning fall 2010. Ph.D. is required; a strong potential for excellence in teaching and a productive research program involving undergraduates are essential. Area of specialization within the broader scope of cellular, molecular, or physiological research is open. Teaching responsibilities include introductory courses for both majors and non-majors, an intermediate level Cellular & Molecular biology course, and two advanced cellular, molecular, or physiological courses. Possible advanced course offerings include (but are not limited to): Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Eukaryotic Cell Biology, Mycology, Parasitology, Phycology, Microbiology, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Genomics, Immunology, and Virology. Courses that are not available to teach are: Developmental Biology and Genetics.

Denison University is a selective and nationally ranked, residential liberal arts college located in Granville, OH, 25 miles east of the Columbus metropolitan area (population 1.8 mil, home of The Ohio State University). We are committed to fostering an academically and culturally diverse faculty and community. The Department of Biology currently has 13 faculty members who represent a wide range of specialty areas, and the annual teaching load is three courses per year (each course with a lab component and capped at 24 students). We graduate approximately 55 majors each year. Many of these students attain positions in graduate or professional schools; others enter the job market in a wide variety of biology-related fields.

Our Talbot Hall of Biological Science (opened in 2003) includes individual faculty offices and research labs, classrooms equipped for multi-media instruction, teaching labs, and greenhouses. We have departmental and college programs for mentoring and enhancing teaching. Denison also has a 350-acre Biological Reserve and the Polly Anderson Field Station, which are available for teaching and research purposes. Note that Talbot Hall of Biological Science building does not have facilities for long-term housing of birds or mammals.

In addition to teaching, the biologist will develop their own productive research program. We offer competitive start-up funds, a generous sabbatical leave program, and a junior faculty leave following a successful third year review. During the summer Denison and several other funding agencies provide research and housing stipends for the support of students as well as faculty stipends ($2,500 for working with one student, an additional $1,500 for working with a second student, and an additional $500 for each additional student after that) to encourage collaborative research with students. Research with students during the academic year is also possible with funding for supplies available from several sources.

Applicants should submit electronic application materials on-line at Human Resources: a cover letter addressing their motivations for teaching at a small, undergraduate, residential, liberal arts college; separate statements of: 1) teaching philosophy along with brief descriptions of proposed advanced courses, 2) research interests and future plans, and 3) potential to foster and support diversity among our students, faculty, and community; curriculum vitae; copies of transcripts (graduate and undergraduate); and the names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references. Review of applications will begin October 2, 2009 and continue until the position is filled.

In a continuing effort to diversify our campus community, we actively encourage applications from people of color, women, veterans, people of diverse sexual identities/orientations, and others who may contribute positively to the diversification of ideas and perspectives. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison please see our Diversity Guide [pdf]. Denison University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Assistant Professor.  The Program of Women’s Studies and the Department of Biology at Denison University invite applications for a new tenure track position beginning fall 2010.  A Ph.D. by summer 2010 is required; a strong potential for excellence in teaching and a productive research program are essential. Both discipline and area of specialization are open but we are especially interested in candidates who can analyze the intersection of race and/or gender as it relates to biology or medicine. Teaching responsibilities include introductory courses in both Biology (“Introduction to the Science of Biology” or “Non-Majors Biology”) and Women’s Studies (“Issues in Feminism”), and advanced courses in at least one area reflecting both the candidate’s expertise and the needs of the Department and Program. Candidates should demonstrate training or other relevant experience in Biology and Women’s Studies. Specialties could include but are not limited to gender differences in epidemiology, physiology, sexuality and gender studies, reproductive technologies, pharmaceutical studies, biological anthropology, women’s health, gender-based modes of animal behavior and communication, feminist critiques of science, and gender and technology etc. A productive research program is expected, preferably with the capacity to involve undergraduates.  Active involvement in the life of the department and the program is expected.

Denison University is a selective and nationally ranked residential liberal arts college located in Granville, OH, 25 miles east of the Columbus metropolitan area. Denison is home to more than 2000 undergraduates and more than 200 full-time faculty. The college is committed to attracting and supporting an academically and culturally diverse faculty.

The Women's Studies Program is an interdisciplinary academic program examining gender as it is mediated by ethnicity, race, class and sexual identity. The Women’s Studies program currently has three faculty members, two of whom have shared appointments in Black Studies and International Studies respectively. Facilities include individual offices, multimedia classrooms, and a library and lounge shared with Black Studies. Laura C. Harris funds allow for exciting symposia and visiting scholars. Recent speakers/performers include Spike Peterson, Cynthia Enloe, bell hooks, Clara Ramona, Chuck D. and Gaye Theresa Johnson, and Saskia Sassen. Twenty-seven associated faculty members offer courses cross-listed in Women’s Studies. Women's studies majors and minors have gone on to work in human resources, personnel, community organization, government, social services and in nonprofit organizational work; others enter medical school, law school, business school or pursue other advanced degrees.

Denison's Department of Biology gives students a broad exposure to an understanding of science and the natural world, and provides a solid preparation for graduate and professional schools. The Department of Biology currently has 12 full-time faculty members who represent a wide range of specialty areas. Facilities include the new Talbot Hall of Biological Science with individual faculty research labs, classrooms equipped for multi-media instruction, teaching labs, a greenhouse and a 350-acre biological reserve with a field station near campus. Biology funds have enabled us to host a variety of exciting scholars, including Philip Gingerich, Paul Sereno, and Cindy van Dover.

Applicants should submit electronic application materials online at https://employment/denison.edu: a cover letter addressing their motivations for teaching at a small, residential college that values quality interactions between faculty and students; separate statements of 1) teaching philosophy with brief descriptions of proposed advanced courses, 2) research interests and future plans, and 3) potential to foster and support diversity among our students, faculty, and community; curriculum vitae; copies of transcripts (graduate and undergraduate); and the names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references. Review of applications will begin November 20, 2009 and continue until the position is filled.  

In a continuing effort to diversity our campus community, we actively encourage applications from people of color, women, veterans, people of diverse sexual identities/orientations, and others who may contribute positively to the diversification of ideas and perspectives. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison, please see our Diversity Guide at www.denison.edu/offices/humanresources/index.html. Denison is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.