{"id":437,"date":"2006-07-29T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T10:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/29\/fyi-1\/"},"modified":"2006-07-29T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T10:29:36","slug":"fyi-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/29\/fyi-1\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.union.edu\/\">Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/\">Union College<\/a> invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position starting in September 2007. The position is open with respect to research specialization and candidates with an active research program in any area of physics or   astronomy are invited to apply. A Ph.D. in physics or a closely related field is required, and post-doctoral experience is desirable. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to undergraduate education in a liberal arts setting and the ability to actively engage undergraduates in research.  Union is a highly selective, small (2150 students) liberal arts college with an engineering program, located in the Capital District of New York State, a region heavily engaged in science and R&#038;D.  The Department of Physics and Astronomy (www.physics.union.edu) includes ten full-time faculty in a variety of fields including astronomy, atomic physics, biophysics, nuclear physics, critical phenomena, and physics education.  Applicants should send a detailed curriculum vita, statements of teaching philosophy and research plans, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to <strong>Michael F. Vineyard, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308<\/strong> (Email: vineyarm at union dot edu) by the application deadline of December 1, 2006.  <i>Union College is an equal opportunity employer and strongly committed to student and workforce diversity.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(This is not, by the way, the consequence of an early and catastrophic decision in my tenure case. It&#8217;s a new position that has opened up recently. Just in case you were worried.)<\/p>\n<p>If you apply for this job, don&#8217;t feel like you have to mention in your cover letter  that you saw it on ScienceBlogs. It&#8217;s going to be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicstoday.org\/jobs\/\">Physics Today Career Network<\/a> in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position starting in September 2007. The position is open with respect to research specialization and candidates with an active research program in any area of physics or astronomy are invited to apply. A Ph.D. in physics or a closely&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/29\/fyi-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FYI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}