Job announcement

[Michael Vincent]

                                                Plant Developmental Biologist
                                                           Plant Ecologist
                                                     Miami University, Oxford
                                                       Department of Botany

      Applications are invited for two tenure-track faculty positions at
the Assistant Professor level, beginning August 2001, on the Oxford campus.
Successful candidates will join a broadly-based department committed to
educational and scholarly excellence and faculty and student diversity.
Founded in 1906, the department is poised, with the support of the
University and the Ohio Board of Regents, to move toward international
preeminence as a comprehensive botanical education and research program. 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 and advanced levels, develop a vigorous, extramurally-funded
research program, and mentor graduate and undergraduate student research
projects.
      PLANT DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGIST: We seek a developmental botanist
using  state-of-the-art molecular genetic approaches to address fundamental
or applied questions concerning mechanisms that affect the development of
plant organs, tissues, or cells. The successful candidate will establish an
active research program complementing departmental programs in structural
and developmental botany, plant molecular biology, and functional genomics.
Teaching duties include an introductory course in botany or biology as well
as upper division/graduate offerings in his or her area of expertise.
Instructional and research collaboration with faculty in the
interdepartmental Graduate Molecular Biology Program is also expected.
      PLANT ECOLOGIST: We seek a plant ecologist to establish an active
research program at the community or landscape level, advise students in
field-oriented research projects, teach an introductory non-majors course
and majors courses in plant ecology and community sampling methods, and
participate in graduate ecology courses cross-listed with the Microbiology
and Zoology Departments.  It is expected that the successful candidate will
interact with a strong group of ecologists and environmental scientists
across the University in curricular initiatives.
      The Botany department has 17 full-time faculty, 4 Affiliate faculty,
and approximately 30 graduate students and 90 undergraduate majors. The
department offers B.S. and A.B. degrees in Botany and Botany-Environmental
Science as well as the M.A.,M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Botany, and
collaborates with other departments in offering an M.A.T. in Biological
Science. The Oxford campus, 32 miles northwest of Cincinnati, has over
16,000 students and is ranked 26th nationally among public universities.
Excellent facilities for research and teaching include the Turrell
Herbarium, the Electron Microscopy and Imaging Facility, an
Interdepartmental Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the Ecology Research
Center. Along with  generous internal and extramural grant support, the
department is supported by the Howard Hughes Biomedical Institute and a
newly-created Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics.
Information on the Botany department, Miami University, and Oxford may be
found at www.muohio.edu.
      Candidates should submit application materials (curriculum vitae, a
teaching statement that includes experience, interests, and philosophy, a
statement of research interests and goals, and not more than three reprints
of representative research), and have three letters of reference sent to:
Dr. Roger Meicenheimer, Chair, Plant Development Search Committee or Dr.
David Gorchov, Chair, Plant Ecology Search Committee, Department of Botany,
Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. Fax (513) 529-4243.  Screening of
applicant will begin on 1 Nov 2000. Miami University is an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer.



Dr. Michael A. Vincent, Curator
W.S. Turrell Herbarium (MU)
Department of Botany
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA

TEL:  513-529-2755
FAX:  513-529-4243
Email:  Vincenma at muohio.edu