Department of Chemistry News Bulletin
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FACULTY POSITION
The Department of Chemistry of the University of Nevada, Reno seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry. Duties include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and establishing an active and innovative experimental research program in any area of organic chemistry, particularly synthetic. Preferred research programs would complement and extend current departmental research areas and may include (but are not limited to) such areas as organic synthesis, synthetic methodology, bio-organic chemistry, organic materials, medicinal organic chemistry, organic applications to renewable energy, and molecular sensors and devices.
For the complete position description, required and preferred qualifications, and online application instructions, please go to the University of Nevada, Reno job application website. Applications must be submitted online and should be received by December 1, 2009 to ensure full consideration. The University of Nevada, Reno is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Women and under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.
For further information about the position or search, contact the Search Chair, Professor Robert S. Sheridan, 775-784-6730, or the Search Coordinator, Ms. Xanthea Elsbree, xelsbree@unr.edu, 775-682-5770.
About the Chemistry Department
State-of-the-art chemical research and high-quality education of students are key missions of the Department of Chemistry. Besides an internationally recognized graduate research program, we operate a large and multifaceted undergraduate teaching program. Each year, over 3000 undergraduates attend our courses which range from introductory classes for non-science majors to sophisticated senior level advanced courses. The department offers ACS Certified Professional Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry B.S. degrees, along with a more flexible Field of Concentration in Chemistry bachelor's degree. We have approximately 80 chemistry majors. All departmental faculty are heavily involved in our undergraduate program, and we take great pride in the sizable number of College, University, and Statewide teaching awards received by our faculty over the years. Over 2100 students are involved in chemistry laboratory courses each year. In the Fall of 2010, we will be moving our undergraduate teaching laboratories into new state-of-the-art instructional facilities in the Davidson Mathematics and Science Center, now under construction.
The Department of Chemistry has active and growing research programs, with over $3.3M in new grants in the past year, 60 graduate students, and 15 postdoctoral research associates and research faculty. The department boasts excellent independent and shared research facilities including three NMR spectrometers (Varian Unity+ 500 MHz and two Varian 400 MHz), a Bruker-Nonius Smart Apex X-ray diffractometer with LT device, Saturn GC-MS with autoinjector, a Waters Mass Spectrometer with ESI, APCI, and APPI ionization, a Bruker ProFlex MALDI-TOF MS, and general use optical instruments including a low temperature Horiba Fluoromax-3 fluorimeter, a PE Spectrum-2000 FT-IR spectrometer with mid- and far-IR capabilities, a Shimadzu UV-2550 UV-Vis spectrometer, and an OLIS/Cary CD spectrometer, amond other instruments. Custom research instruments are fabricated in the professionally staffed machine shop. The department's need for general computational chemistry is met by a modern (2006) cluster, equipped with 42 net AMD Opteron processors, 84 GB of RAM, and 2 TB of disk space. Several research groups maintain additional computational facilities, supported by the department's computing and network administrator.
Reno is situated in a broad valley of the Truckee River on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and on the western boundary of the Great Basin high desert. Reno weather is temperate due to the mountainous location and the elevation of 4500 feet. Summers are comfortable and dry with cool evening temperatures and low humidity. Despite heavy snow in the surrounding mountains, winters in Reno are moderate usually with only occasional, short-lived snowfalls. With a population of 383,000 in the greater Reno area, the region offers the advantages and excitement of a major urban area along with the quality of life characteristic of a relatively small western community. Reno also supports a thriving arts community rivaled by few cities of its size: philharmonic and chamber orchestras, a municipal band, an opera guild, a performing artist series, a summer arts festival, and active theater groups. Several art galleries, museums, and a planetarium are located on or near the university campus and throughout the community.
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