Faculty Postion Drexel University

[ABS CO Staff]

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (http://www.ansp.org/research/) and Drexel University (Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences; http://www.drexel.edu/bees) invite applications for a joint curatorship and tenure-line faculty appointment in Ornithology. The rank of this appointment is open. The Academy's ornithology collection has nearly 200,000 specimens collected from around the world over the last 250 years, including some of the most important collections from South America. In addition to research, curators are expected to promote and insure the conservation, preparation, care, use, and security of biological collections. The successful candidate will have a commitment to expanding and using the Academy's ornithology collection in research, education, and outreach. Drexel has committed substantial resources for growth of the BEES Department. The successful candidate will have a commitment to teaching undergraduate and graduate students in BEES. Research expertise might include the areas of systematics, phylogenetics, comparative organismal biology, biogeography, biodiversity informatics, conservation or evolutionary and ecological dynamics. Applicants with research programs that complement and enrich existing interests at the Academy and in the BEES department and bring opportunities for cross institutional collaboration will be given high priority. The successful candidate will maintain a dynamic, field and museum-based, extramurally funded research program and will contribute to instruction in the newly established Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences at Drexel University. Qualifications. Candidates must have a PhD, a record of scientific achievement in research on the diversity, evolutionary biology and ecology of birds, and a strong interest in undergraduate and graduate teaching. To apply: Submit application materials by November 30, 2012. Anticipated start date for the position is September 1, 2013. Submission instructions: 1. Upload to DrexelJobs:www.drexeljobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=76366 - Curriculum vitae - Statement of research interests & goals, - Statement on teaching philosophy & experience, - Contact information for three references. 2. Forward no more than five (5) most significant publications (PDF format) to Kristen Kepics (kep...@ansp.org). For additional information about the BEES Department's hiring process, please contact the BEES Ornithology Search Committee, Department of Biodiversity, Earth, & Environmental Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (kep...@ansp.org).