[NHCOLL-L:2465] Job Announcement - Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, UC Berkeley

[Carla Cicero]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Faculty Position in Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology

The Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 
seek a colleague at the Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator level in 
the area of Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology, to serve as Curator of either 
extant birds or mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and to develop 
an outstanding teaching and research program. We expect the successful 
candidate to have an intellectual commitment to collection-based research, 
expertise in one of the two aforementioned taxonomic groups, the capacity 
to achieve intellectual leadership in the area of research specialization, 
and to contribute to interactions among the diverse faculty of Integrative 
Biology. Candidates should have a strong commitment to both undergraduate 
and graduate teaching.

The position is available 1 July 2005. Applicants should submit a 
curriculum vitae and a statement of research and teaching objectives, 
including a vision for the future of natural history museums such as the 
MVZ. Applicants should also arrange for at least three letters of 
recommendation to be sent directly to the search committee and should refer 
their reviewers to the UC Berkeley Statement of Confidentiality at 
http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.

Applications should be sent to: Search Committee, Vertebrate Evolutionary 
Biology Search (Position ID# 954), Department of Integrative Biology, 3060 
VLSB, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140.  The deadline for 
receipt of applications is 15 January 2005.

Further information about the department, the MVZ, and this faculty 
position can be found at http://ib.berkeley.edu/ and 
http://mvz.berkeley.edu.  The University of California, Berkeley, is an 
Equal Opportunity Employer committed to excellence through diversity.