Faculty Position in Analytics and Data Science: Tenure Track – Open Rank

[Laura Dietz]

Faculty Position in Analytics and Data Science: Tenure Track – Open Rank

University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire
USA

The Graduate Programs in Analytics and Data Science in the Graduate
School at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) invite applications for
a full-time, Tenure-Track faculty position (rank open). Candidates
should have a record of excellent research and clear potential for
excellent teaching. This position will have an academic home in an
existing University department within one of the University's Colleges,
chosen as appropriate for the faculty member’s scholarly emphasis.
Excellent opportunities for collaborative research exist through a
number of institutes and centers throughout UNH, including the Institute
for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, the Connectivity Research
Center, the Carsey School of Public Policy, the New Hampshire Institute
for Health Policy, and the Institute on Disability.

The programs, candidate, and the home department will work
collaboratively to determine the candidate’s teaching assignments,
research expectations, and service requirements. The teaching load will
include courses in Graduate Programs in Analytics and Data Science, in
person and online, and may include teaching in the home department.
Additional responsibilities include developing new programs, conducting
high impact, peer-reviewed scholarship, serving on department, college
and university committees; advising students (including Ph.D. students
as appropriate) and conducting service appropriate to their field and
departmental affiliation.

Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in an area related to Data
Science (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Business
Analytics, Health Analytics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics,
among others). Candidates with successful teaching experience,
multidisciplinary research, and practical experience are valued.
Candidates should have a commitment to sustain and advance the
university’s goals of diversity and inclusion.

The search committee will begin reviewing applications in September
2017. Applications received by January 2, 2018 will be ensured full
consideration. The position will remain open until filled. Applicants
are invited to apply online at
https://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/27329
and should attach a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching statement
(including, if available, quantitative evidence of teaching success),
research statement, up to three representative publications (scholarly
documents), and a list of three references for later contact.

UNH is a comprehensive land-grant, space-grant, and sea- grant
institution. It receives more than $100 million in externally-funded
research support and is well known for its integration of research and
undergraduate education. UNH has approximately 12,000 undergraduate and
2,200 graduate students. It combines the living and learning environment
of a New England liberal arts college with the breadth, spirit of
discovery, and civic involvement of a research institution. UNH is
located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston, 8
miles from the Atlantic coast, and is convenient to Northern New
England’s lakes and mountains. It is approximately one hour from Boston,
Massachusetts and Portland, Maine, and has passenger rail service to
both.

The University seeks excellence through diversity among its
administrators, faculty, staff, and students, and encourages women and
minorities to apply. The University prohibits discrimination on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status,
or marital status. Application by members of all underrepresented groups
is encouraged. UNH is an AA/EEO Employer.