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College of Veterinary Medicine: Professor and Head, Pathobiology (108269)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

College of Veterinary Medicine

Professor and Head

Department of Pathobiology

The College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, invites applications for the position of Professor and Head, Department of Pathobiology. The Head is a senior member of the college administrative team and will be expected to provide visionary leadership in a large and diverse campus environment that emphasizes academic excellence and fulfillment of the Land Grant missions. This is a full-time, tenure-track, 9-month position with the responsibility to promote excellence in research across a diverse basic science faculty with programs that span pathogen biology, molecular mechanisms of infection, host-pathogen interactions and immunity, vaccine design and development, and ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases. Salary is commensurate with experience.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO. To learn more about the University’s commitment to diversity, please visit http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu. At Illinois we have an active and successful dual-career partner placement program and a strong commitment to work-life balance and family-friendly programs: http://provost.illinois.edu/faculty-affairs/work-life-balance.

Qualifications: Candidates must have a currently active and robust research program, a sustained record of external funding reflective of a distinguished biomedical scientist, and a strong professional record compatible with an appointment of full professor with tenure. Requirements include a PhD, MD, or DVM degree or their equivalent, and demonstrated excellence in biomedical research and veterinary and/or human medical education. The ideal candidate will have the demonstrated leadership, organizational, and administrative skills, including fiscal responsibility and personnel management, to advance the department’s research and education missions in a diverse and inclusive environment. The individual must have the ability to articulate a vision to lead the development and growth of the department, including consensus building and fostering teamwork in accomplishing department goals.

Duties: The Head will be responsible for the execution of departmental, college, and university policies, will direct departmental activities, and will maintain and foster high standards of scholarly activity. They will initiate and supervise the departmental recruiting, retention, mentoring, engagement, promotion, and tenure activities, and will have responsibility for the fiscal oversight of the department. We are fully committed to and proactive in creating a diverse and inclusive academic community of faculty, staff, and students, and we seek an individual who will actively support this goal. More information about the Pathobiology department can be found at: http://vetmed.illinois.edu/research/departments/pathobiology/.

Professional opportunities: The University of Illinois is one of the premier public research universities in the country, known for its uniquely multidisciplinary and collaborative research environment, ideal for building basic, translational, and applied research excellence in biomedical sciences. The College of Veterinary Medicine boasts an expert faculty with diverse and complementary interests in the areas of infectious diseases, reproductive biology, neuroscience, developmental biology, and cancer biology. The Pathobiology faculty enjoy many opportunities to collaborate with researchers across campus in such fields as chemistry, nanotechnology, bioengineering, and agriculture, focused on newly emerging solutions to the world’s health problems.

Personal opportunities: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus offers state-of-the-art research facilities and programs that include the Beckman Institute, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, the Cancer Center at Illinois, and the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, which provides facilities for high-throughput screening, flow cytometry and sorting, next generation sequencing and genomics, imaging (including fMRI), transgenic mice, NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, proteomics, and metabolomics. The campus has outstanding lab animal and agricultural animal facilities and boasts superb computational resources at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics. Urbana-Champaign offers the residential advantages of a medium-sized university city, excellent cultural opportunities, and a high quality of life paired with a low cost of living (http://www.yourewelcomecu.com/cu-community/ ).

How to Apply: To receive full consideration, applications and related documents should be received by March 1, 2019. Please create your application through https://go.illinois.edu/Pathobiology_Dept_Head. Upload application materials, including your application letter, resume, research statement, and names and email contact information for three references. Applications will continue to be accepted until a suitable candidate is identified. Additional information may be obtained from Dr. James Slauch (Search Chair) at slauch@illinois.edu.

Anticipated starting date is on or around August 16, 2019. This is a security-sensitive position. The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

Links for additional information:

The College of Veterinary Medicine (http://vetmed.illinois.edu/)

Department of Pathobiology (https://vetmed.illinois.edu/college-organization/pathobiology/)

The Program in Endocrinology, Embryology & Reproduction (https://vetmed.illinois.edu/peer/)

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program (https://vetmed.illinois.edu/ietp/)

The Neuroscience Program (http://neuroscience.illinois.edu)

The Illinois Cancer Center (http://cancer.illinois.edu)

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (https://mcb.illinois.edu)

The Department of Bioengineering (http://bioengineering.illinois.edu)

The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (https://healthinstitute.illinois.edu/)

The Mayo Illinois Alliance for Technology Based Healthcare (http://mayoillinois.org/)

The new engineering-driven Carle Illinois College of Medicine (http://medicine.illinois.edu)

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (http://beckman.illinois.edu)

The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (http://www.igb.illinois.edu/)

Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center (https://biotech.illinois.edu/)

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/)

Discovery Partners Institute (https://dpi.uillinois.edu/)

College Name or Administrative Unit:College of Veterinary Medicine Category:1-Faculty Title:College of Veterinary Medicine: Professor and Head, Pathobiology (108269) Open Date:12/17/2018 Organization Name:Pathobiology

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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