Department Chair - Department of Nutritional Sciences University of Texas at Austin
Department Chair - Department of Nutritional Sciences University of Texas at Austin
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The Department of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin invites applications for Department Chair. The successful applicant will be appointed at the Full Professor level and hold the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professorship in Nutrition. Applicants will be expected to have an internationally recognized research program and demonstrated leadership abilities in fostering transformational and collaborative science and consensus building among colleagues.
We are seeking to expand our strengths in interdisciplinary research molecular nutrition behavioral nutrition clinical and community nutrition interventions and nutrition and chronic disease prevention/management. Applicants should have a vision for continued growth for nutritional sciences within the Department and across other UT units. The Department values all aspects of the University mission including research teaching service and leadership and applicants are encouraged to highlight throughout their application their relevant experiences and skillsets in supporting academic success of all students (e.g. their specific approaches for teaching mentoring research and /or scholarly work).
The University of Texas at Austin is consistently ranked among the countrys top public universities and is one of the worlds leading research institutions. The position provides the opportunity to work in a highly multidisciplinary environment interacting with students scientists and clinicians. Faculty work with graduate students in Nutritional Sciences programs as well as the Universitywide Interdisciplinary Lifesciences Graduate Program Resources available within the Department of Nutritional Sciences include modern basic clinical and behavioral research space. Facilities within the Dell Pediatric Research Institute include resources for clinical testing feeding studies body composition and nutritional assessment. Research is enhanced by stateofthe art core facilities available through the Center for Biomedical Research Support including genomics proteomics metabolomics spatial transcriptomics bioinformatics mouse genetic engineering and imaging. Research requiring high performance computing visualization and big data analytics is possible through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC; . The Department of Nutritional Sciences has strong relationships with many units within The UT Dell Medical School including the Department of Pediatrics the Department of Population Health and the Livestrong Cancer Institute
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