JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Dr. Michael A. Vincent]

                        PLANT SYSTEMATIST
                    MYCOLOGIST/CELL BIOLOGIST
                        MIAMI UNIVERSITY
                      DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY
                         OXFORD, OHIO

     Applications are invited for two tenure-track Assistant
Professorships beginning August 1995 on the Oxford campus.
Successful candidates will join a growing, broadly-based department
committed to educational and scholarly excellence and faculty
diversity.  A Ph.D. in Botany or a closely related discipline is
required along with a genuine commitment to excellence as a teacher-
scholar.  Postdoctoral experience is preferred.  Successful
candidates will teach courses at the introductory as well as the
advanced level and develop a vigorous, extramurally-funded research
program.
     PLANT SYSTEMATIST.  We seek a broadly-trained plant
systematist/taxonomist using modern molecular techniques to address
fundamental questions in plant systematics and to complement existing
departmental and interdepartmental programs.  Areas of research
interest may include but are not limited to plant evolution,
economic/ethnobotany, tropical botany, and conservation biology.
     MYCOLOGIST/CELL BIOLOGIST.  We seek a broadly-trained
mycologist/cell biologist to complement and expand our core teaching
and research programs in mycology and related disciplines.  Research
interests should emphasize modern cellular, physiological, and/or
molecular approaches to fungal biology, including but not limited to
fungal physiology, plant pathology, and ecological interactions of
fungi.  Use of electron and/or confocal microscopy as a research to
is beneficial.
     The Miami Botany department currently has 15 full-time faculty,
with over 120 undergraduate majors, and 36 full-time graduate
students.  The department offers B.S. and B.A. degrees in Botany and
Botany-Environmental Science, M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in
Botany, and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree.  The Oxford campus,
located 35 miles northwest of Cincinnati, has over 16,000 students
and is recognized as one of the nations best liberal arts
universities.  The Turrell Herbarium, an interdepartmental Electron
Microscope Facility with state-of-the-art cryofixation capability,
greenhouse/plant growth chamber facilities, field research plots, an
Ecology Research Center, extensive analytical instrumentation, and
partnership in a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant offer
outstanding support for scholarship.  Interaction with faculty and
students in other disciplines is encouraged.
     Candidates should submit application materials (curriculum
vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy and interests, a statement
of research interest, and not more than three reprints of
representative research), and should arrange to have three letters of
reference sent to:  DR. KENNETH WILSON, CHAIR, PLANT SYSTEMATICS
SEARCH COMMITTEE (email: Wilsonk at mu-support.acs.muohio.edu) or DR.
JERRY MCCLURE, CHAIR, MYCOLOGIST/CELL BIOLOGIST SEARCH COMMITTEE
(email:McClurej at mu-support.acs.muohio.edu), Department of Botany,
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056.  Fax: 513-529-4243.  Review of
application materials begins 1 December 1994.  MIAMI UNIVERSITY
OFFERS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION.














































Dr. Michael A. Vincent, Curator    TEL: 513-529-2755
W.S. Turrell Herbarium (MU)        FAX: 513-529-4243
Department of Botany
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
Email: Vincentm at MU-support.acs.MUOhio.edu