Ivory Filter Flask: 8/13/13 edition

Good morning! Between August 6 and August 12, there were 20 academic positions posted on the C&EN Jobs website. The numbers:

Postdocs: 2
Tenure-track: 13
Temporary faculty: 1
Lecturers: 0
Staff: 4
US/non-US: 18/2

Holy assistant professors, Batman!: Lots of open assistant professor positions.

Providence, RI: Brown is search for a faculty position in inorganic chemistry.

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue has an assistant professor opening in biochemistry. 

Omaha, NE: Creighton is looking for an assistant professor of biochemistry (bioanalytical, bioorganic, bionanofemtozyngachemistry, etc, sounds like.) (Kidding with that last one.)

Harrisonburg, VA: James Madison University has 3 openings for assistant and associate professors of chemistry. (biochemistry, materials, laser/atmospheric)

Kearney, NE: The University of Nebraska - Kearney is looking for an assistant professor of chemistry - I love how "equipment caretaker" is listed in the job description.

Sherman, TX: Austin College is search for an assistant professor of chemistry to teach biochemistry, among other classes.

Riverside, CA: You ARE the Last Minute Lecturer! La Sierra University announces a 1 year visiting assistant/associate professor position, with salary at 52-56k! Wooooooo! Starting date: September 1, 2013. (Pack up, send in your resume, get on your camel and get moving.)

Baton Rouge, LA: LSU is looking for a Ph.D. chemist to look after maintaining their NMR spectrometers. 

Ivory Filter Flask: 7/23/13 edition

Good morning! Between July 16 and July 22, there were 15 new academic positions posted on the C&EN Jobs website. The numbers:

Postdocs: 1
Tenure-track: 10
Temporary faculty: 1
Lecturers: 0
Staff: 3
US/non-US: 13/2

Palo Alto, CA: Stanford is looking for a tenured professor of theoretical chemistry.

Camarillo, CA: CSU Channel Islands desires an assistant professor of chemistry.

Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah wishes to hire a synthetic chemistry postdoc for drug-protein conjugate research.  

Newberry, SC: Newberry College wishes to hire an assistant professor of chemistry; 46-48k offered. Well north of the 2000 census median household income of 27k.

Florence, AL: The University of North Alabama is hiring an assistant professor of chemistry; primary teaching responsibility is physical chemistry.

Bozeman, MT: Last minute lecturer time! Montana State is looking for non-tenure-track faculty to start teaching August 16, 2013 through next summer. Hurry! 

Ivory Filter Flask: 7/2/13 edition

Good morning! Between June 25 and July 1, there were 6 academic positions posted on the C&EN Jobs website. The numbers:

Postdocs: 1
Tenure-track: 2
Temporary faculty: 1
Lecturers: 1
Staff: 1
US/non-US: 6/0

Minneapolis, MN: The University of Minnesota's Center for Drug Design is looking for a postdoc in medicinal chemistry for work on an anti-viral project; 36-38k offered.

Northfield, MN: Carleton College desires a chemistry stockroom manager. No educational requirements listed in their ad -- B.S./M.S.?

Huh: I'm pretty sure this director position is at some sort of fracking-related research institute at Penn State.

LML time: Well, friends, it's time for the Last Minute Lecturer! Our first entrant for the year is Case Western (Cleveland, OH), who's looking for a Instructor/Senior Instructor. Deadline for application is July 26, with teaching to start in the 2013/2014 school year.

Also, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) is looking for a 1-year visiting assistant professor in physical chemistry for the 2013/14 school year. 

Ivory Filter Flask: 8/7/12 edition

Good morning! Between July 31 and August 6, there were 20 academic positions posted on the ACS Careers website.

Total number of ads: 20
- Postdocs: 2
- Tenure-track faculty:  11
- Temporary faculty: 1
- Lecturer positions: 0
- Staff positions:  6
- Ratio of US/non-US positions: 18 /  2

Hamilton, New Zealand: The University of Waikato is looking for a lecturer (assistant professor, in US-speak) of environmental and analytical chemistry. 

It's time for 2013 openings!: 11 to start today, 6 in the last day. 

Northhampton, MA: Smith College is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of organic chemistry, starting July 2013. 

Orlando, FL: The University of Central Florida is looking for an assistant professor of NanoNanoNanoNano: 

The NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC) (www.nanoscience.ucf.edu) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of experimental nano-bio sciences with emphasis on nanotoxicity, nano tissue engineering, protein nanotechnology, or other cutting edge nanotechnology fields.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College desires an assistant professor of biochemistry, to start September 2013.

Last minute lecturer: The University of North Alabama, come on down. You've won the award for coming in late, late, late (emphasis mine):

The University of North Alabama is accepting applications for a one-semester appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Hygiene beginning August 20, 2012. Candidates must have a Master’s Degree in chemistry – a Ph.D. is preferred. Teaching duties in the fall will include undergraduate analytical chemistry (Quantitative Analysis) with corresponding laboratories.

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Ivory Filter Flask: 7/24/12 edition

Good morning! Between July 10 and July 23, there have been 17 academic positions posted on the ACS Careers website. The numbers:

Total number of ads: 17
- Postdocs: 5
- Tenure-track faculty:  6
- Temporary faculty: 1
- Lecturer positions:  3
- Staff positions:  2
- Ratio of US/non-US positions: 16 / 1

Kingston, RI: The University of Rhode Island seeks an assistant professor of organic chemistry, starting in the Fall 2013 semester.

An Ocean State day: Brown University is looking for an assistant professor of chemistry in nanoscience/chemistry; the position is associated with Brown’s Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation. This position starts in the Fall 2013 season.

Vienna, Austria: Want a post-doc in Austria? Who wouldn't? How long is it planned for? Well...:

A 6-year post-doctoral position (‘Universitaetsassistent’, salary scheme B1), is available at the surface science group at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria. The successful applicant is expected to build an independent research portfolio in the area of electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

Well, at least you have time enough to get settled!

Hurry up! We want to hire you!: Inaugurating a new feature of the IFF -- checking out departments that are frantically hiring for the upcoming academic semester. CSU-Bakersfield is hiring a lecturer for 2012-2013. The University of Washington is hiring a full-time lecturer in organic chemistry and one in general chemistry, both to start in mid-September 2012.  Ohio University (Athens, OH) is looking for 3 visiting assistant professors -- check this out:

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University invites applications for 3 full-time Visiting Assistant Professors, beginning August 27, 2012. These are non-tenure track, one year renewable positions. Teaching responsibilities may include lecture and/or laboratory courses in general, biochemistry, organic, physical, analytical chemistry and toxicology... Review of applicant materials will begin immediately and continue until successful candidates are identified. For full consideration apply by August 5, 2012.

Cutting it kind of close, aren't you?

[Assignment desk: there should be a blog/webcomic about The Lecturer with No Name, a dude(tte) who wanders the middle part of the US, taking visiting assistant professor positions, righting wrongs and correcting Texas carbons.]