Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Metabolic Health
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Metabolic Health
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The Department of Nutritional Sciences envisions a healthy and sustainable tomorrow through research education and outreach. The faculty hire in Nutritional Sciences within this cluster contributes to the departments objective to meet the strategic goals of the NIH USDA and other funding organizations that aspire to reduce the impact of disease by improving health through nutrition. General areas of interest for this hire include the broad categories of metabolism prevention and treatment of chronic disease and dietary patterns with particular focus on one or more of the following: nutrition inflammation and the gut microbiome; precision nutrition; biomarkers of healthy eating; data science; lifespan nutrition from development to old age; metabolic disorders; and health disparities. This faculty hire will contribute to the curricular goals of the department in biomedical nutrition; teach courses in advanced nutrition nutritional biochemistry and nutritional physiology; and provide experiential learning opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences through basic and/or clinical or translational research. Metabolic Health Cluster Hire The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences SEBS and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station NJAES at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey is leading the way to achieve a healthy and sustainable future. We do this through a rich tradition in research education entrepreneurship outreach and engagement. Our hiring initiative in Metabolic Health integrates the molecular and physiological underpinnings and environmental influences that impact the sustainable wellbeing of humans animals and ecosystems. Metabolic Health is essential to solving many challenges which affect the future of life on Earth. We seek to hire an interdisciplinary cluster of four tenuretrack faculty colleagues whose scholarly interests and goals fit within the SEBS core areas of strength which span from microorganisms to ecosystems. Successful applicants will prioritize and align with SEBS values of inclusivity interdisciplinary excellence and scholarly relevance leading to innovative research programs student success and community engagement. See: Faculty hires will affiliate with one of several academic departments: Animal Sciences Biochemistry and Microbiology Food Science and Nutritional Sciences. Specific research areas are shown below though any area related to metabolic health will be considered. Gastrointestinal physiology Microbial metabolism Biofunctional food processing Nutrition and metabolic health Tenuretrack ninemonth academic appointments are at the Assistant Professor level. Successful applicants will be competitive for external funding opportunities with the potential to establish an integrated research program and must be committed to teaching core and elective courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to mentoring research students at all degree levels. Rutgers and SEBS are committed to diversity equity and inclusion . One of our main priorities is to diversify our faculty ranks as outlined in the SEBS / NJAES DEI strategic plan to ensure our faculty composition reflects the diversity of our state and student population. We especially encourage applications from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences including Black Latine Indigenous and LGBTQ scientists. The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences SEBS powers the universitys robust exploration of sciences. From microorganisms to a changing climate the land air and ocean nutrition and food sciences animals and plants. SEBS NJAES continues to successfully serve the increasingly diverse population of New Jersey by integrating basic and applied research with education outreach and engagement to achieve communityserving outcomes. The New Jersey Institute for Food Nutrition and Health IFNH plays a central role in these efforts building on Rutgers extensive and pioneering work in the fields of agriculture food science nutritional science and human and animal health. IFNH underscores the commitment of Rutgers University to new transformational initiatives across the many disciplines impacting food nutrition and health. The institute embraces a culture of interdisciplinarity that seeks solutions to our health problems in the social as well as the biological determinants of health. IFNH oversees a spectrum of translational activity ranging from basic research to community outreach. The breadth of its activities is reflected in the diversity of its research centers thematic programs and student services. As one of its top program priorities the institute focuses on ways to stem the epidemic rise in childhood obesity and obesityrelated disorders such as diabetes heart disease and cancer.
The Department of Nutritional Sciences envisions a healthy and sustainable tomorrow through research education and outreach. The faculty hire in Nutritional Sciences within this cluster contributes to the departments objective to meet the strategic goals of the NIH USDA and other funding organizations that aspire to reduce the impact of disease by improving health through nutrition. General areas of interest for this hire include the broad categories of metabolism prevention and treatment of chronic disease and dietary patterns with particular focus on one or more of the following: nutrition inflammation and the gut microbiome; precision nutrition; biomarkers of healthy eating; data science; lifespan nutrition from development to old age; metabolic disorders; and health disparities. This faculty hire will contribute to the curricular goals of the department in biomedical nutrition; teach courses in advanced nutrition nutritional biochemistry and nutritional physiology; and provide experiential learning opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences through basic and/or clinical or translational research. Metabolic Health Cluster Hire The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences SEBS and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station NJAES at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey is leading the way to achieve a healthy and sustainable future. We do this through a rich tradition in research education entrepreneurship outreach and engagement. Our hiring initiative in Metabolic Health integrates the molecular and physiological underpinnings and environmental influences that impact the sustainable wellbeing of humans animals and ecosystems. Metabolic Health is essential to solving many challenges which affect the future of life on Earth. We seek to hire an interdisciplinary cluster of four tenuretrack faculty colleagues whose scholarly interests and goals fit within the SEBS core areas of strength which span from microorganisms to ecosystems. Successful applicants will prioritize and align with SEBS values of inclusivity interdisciplinary excellence and scholarly relevance leading to innovative research programs student success and community engagement. See: Faculty hires will affiliate with one of several academic departments: Animal Sciences Biochemistry and Microbiology Food Science and Nutritional Sciences. Specific research areas are shown below though any area related to metabolic health will be considered. Gastrointestinal physiology Microbial metabolism Biofunctional food processing Nutrition and metabolic health Tenuretrack ninemonth academic appointments are at the Assistant Professor level. Successful applicants will be competitive for external funding opportunities with the potential to establish an integrated research program and must be committed to teaching core and elective courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to mentoring research students at all degree levels. Rutgers and SEBS are committed to diversity equity and inclusion . One of our main priorities is to diversify our faculty ranks as outlined in the SEBS / NJAES DEI strategic plan to ensure our faculty composition reflects the diversity of our state and student population. We especially encourage applications from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences including Black Latine Indigenous and LGBTQ scientists. The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences SEBS powers the universitys robust exploration of sciences. From microorganisms to a changing climate the land air and ocean nutrition and food sciences animals and plants. SEBS NJAES continues to successfully serve the increasingly diverse population of New Jersey by integrating basic and applied research with education outreach and engagement to achieve communityserving outcomes. The New Jersey Institute for Food Nutrition and Health IFNH plays a central role in these efforts building on Rutgers extensive and pioneering work in the fields of agriculture food science nutritional science and human and animal health. IFNH underscores the commitment of Rutgers University to new transformational initiatives across the many disciplines impacting food nutrition and health. The institute embraces a culture of interdisciplinarity that seeks solutions to our health problems in the social as well as the biological determinants of health. IFNH oversees a spectrum of translational activity ranging from basic research to community outreach. The breadth of its activities is reflected in the diversity of its research centers thematic programs and student services. As one of its top program priorities the institute focuses on ways to stem the epidemic rise in childhood obesity and obesityrelated disorders such as diabetes heart disease and cancer.
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