Assistant​/Associate Professor - Nutritional Sciences

Classification

Title:

Ast/Aso Prof

Classification

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates for this rank shall hold the highest degree appropriate to their field. A candidate shall be expected to demonstrate successful experience pertinent to the position they are being recommended and have demonstrated qualities relevant to the goals of the academic unit in which they will be employed.

Job Description:

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This is a 9-month tenure-accruing position that will be 70% research (Florida Agricultural Experiment Station) and 30% teaching (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences), available in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Florida. This assignment may change in accordance with the needs of the unit. The candidate is expected to have expertise in human nutrition and metabolism (or related fields), and to develop or continue a strong research program focusing on human health and disease related to nutrition.

Teaching will include graduate and undergraduate courses within nutritional sciences. The candidate is expected to deliver quality instruction in both online and in-person modalities. The faculty member will be expected to participate in undergraduate education and advising, chair graduate committees, serve on other graduate committees, supervise thesis and dissertation research, and supervise undergraduate and postdoctoral research and publish with their graduate students.

Tenure will accrue in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department. The faculty member will seek contract and grant funding to support their program. The faculty member will support Extension activities in their program area.

The successful candidate will engage in scholarly activities related to instruction. Examples of these scholarly activities include: teaching undergraduate and/or graduate courses, advising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, participating in curriculum revision and enhancement, seeking funding for the teaching program, supervising undergraduate and graduate research and creative work, publishing teaching-related scholarship, producing learning tools, and engaging in professional development activities related to teaching and advising.

Faculty are encouraged to support and participate in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honors Program, distance and international education.

Because of the IFAS land-grant mission, all faculty are expected to be supportive of and engaged in all three mission areas-Research, Teaching and Extension-regardless of the assignment split specified in the position description.

Background Information:

The Food Science and Human Nutrition Department is a unit in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The department has approximately 30 full-time faculty members including a significant group of federally funded researchers with a rich history of national research awards. The graduate program enrolls over 60 M.S. and Ph.D. students in Nutritional Sciences, Dietetics, and Food Science. The doctoral program in Nutritional Sciences is a part of the Center for Nutritional Sciences, which is interdisciplinary and includes a number of faculty from different departments across campus, along with a vibrant seminar series.

The undergraduate student enrollment in Food Science and Human Nutrition is over 450 across the three majors:
Nutritional Sciences, Food Science and Dietetics.

Nutritional Sciences faculty within the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department conduct research in multiple areas that span micronutrients, molecular nutrition, human metabolism, physiology, and clinical nutrition. For more information about the Department please . Our faculty collaborate with colleagues from the Colleges of Medicine, Health and Human Performance, Public Health, Pharmacy, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Within walking distance are superb opportunities to participate in basic and translational research with the UF Diabetes Institute, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

The University of Florida is a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant, and Space-Grant institution, encompassing virtually all academic and professional disciplines, with an enrollment of more than 56,000 students. UF is a member of The Association of American Universities and is strongly committed to leadership in AI research and education. The University of Florida is making its Hi Per Gator  supercomputer available for faculty and students.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences includes the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, the Florida Cooperative Extension Service,…