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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am circulating the job announcement below on behalf of the Search Committee Chairperson!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University (<a href="https://integrativebiology.msu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">https://integrativebiology.msu.edu</span></a>)
and the Michigan State University Museum (<a href="https://museum.msu.edu/">https://museum.msu.edu/</a>) are conducting a search for an<b> Assistant/Associate Professor(s) and Curator of Vertebrate Collections</b>. The advertisement can be viewed here (<a href="https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/520983/assistant-professortenure-system">https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/520983/assistant-professortenure-system</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We seek excellent scholars who have independent, specimen-based research programs with strong potential for external funding. Curation, teaching, and
integrated DEI activities are also important components of the position. We would be grateful if you could share our posting with colleagues and listservs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please share suggestions of candidates with the Search Committee Chair (Catherine Lindell <a href="mailto:lindellc@msu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">lindellc@msu.edu</span></a>)
so that we can encourage these individuals to apply. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Laura<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Laura Abraczinskas (she/her)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Collections Manager, Vertebrate Collections<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michigan State University Museum<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">409 West Circle Drive<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">East Lansing, Michigan 48824<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(517) 355-1290 (office)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg</i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">–</span><i>Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides
on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
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