Assistant or Associate Professor

Assistant or Associate Professor (1 of
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Position Type: Faculty

Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Full or Part Time: Full Time

Pay Grade: Dependent on Rank

Summary: Full-time tenure or non-tenure track appointment at either the assistant or associate professor rank (based on credentials and professional experience) in Pharmaceutical Sciences with special emphasis in at least one of the following:
Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical or Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutics. Successful candidates for the tenure-track position will be expected to establish a funded, nationally recognized research program as well as teach primarily in several courses within the professional PharmD curriculum.

Teaching and Service: Participate in pharmacy and graduate student education based on areas of expertise, contributing to direct teaching needs. Evaluating the success of teaching contributions may be based on student achievement, student evaluations, course/module director evaluations, and peer evaluations. Active participation on college and university committees will be required and assigned. Evaluating the success of service obligations will be based on level of participation and engagement in support of related activities.

In addition, membership and participation in state and national professional organizations is strongly encouraged.

Research: Participate in scholarly activities and/or research focus areas as appropriate. Seek extramural funding opportunities, write and submit proposals, conduct collaborative scholarly inquiries. Maintain extramural funding and productivity, generate a percentage of base salary through extramural support. Publish quality papers. Evaluating the success of this research obligation will be based on efforts toward publication and grant success.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent research-based earned doctorate and postdoctoral or previous experience with government or industry in an area related to Pharmaceutical Sciences with emphasis on Pharmaceutical or Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Teaching Experience and Expertise: an educator with experience in curriculum and course development and implementation. Contribute to the teaching and research missions of the College of Pharmacy. Successful candidates should be interested in educational innovation and up to date on contemporary educational approaches as well as being open to new educational approaches.
• Research and Scholarship:
  Track record of research/scholarship. Able contribute to the research/scholarship mission of the college and able to mentor students, fellows, and faculty as appropriate.
• Collaborative:
  Can work collaboratively with administrators, faculty, staff, and students at the college and the university.
• Humanistic Environment:
  Committed to building a humanistic culture/climate within the college and to fostering student success.

Must be able to utilize a phone, computer and other office equipment.

Teaching Effort: 40-50% with the ability to increase the teaching effort for non-tenure track faculty position. Contribute to curriculum development and delivery in the subspecialty area of medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, pharmaceutics and drug delivery. Teaching duties may include preparation and presentation of teaching/learning experiences, class materials and examinations in assigned courses; and monitoring and maintaining records of student progress in assigned courses.

Act as an advisor to graduate and mentor pharmacy students in both the classroom and laboratory.

Research Effort: 40-50% with the ability to reduce the research effort distribution for the non-tenure track faculty position. Preference will be given to research in broadly defined specialty areas that could include one of the following: pharmaceutical or medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, computational chemistry, molecular modeling, virtual screening, drug target interaction, drug development, pharmaceutics and drug delivery. Current…