The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (curated by Andrew Spaeth and myself) has 428 research/teaching positions and 65 teaching positions.
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On December 5, 2023, the 2024 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List had 472 research/teaching positions and 49 teaching positions.
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ReplyDeleteAny word from Rice or UTenn's materials posting? Those are both >6 weeks from deadline now.
ReplyDeleteHowdy folks, Tori Barber here! I am still the owner of the tracker google sheet but am not monitoring it at all any more (too busy assistant professoring- thanks CJ!). If anyone is interested in getting admin privileges on the tracker and taking over moderation please contact me- vbarber@chem.ucla.edu
ReplyDeleteThis week was oddly slow. We had less stuff pop on the tracker this whole week than we did in the three days leading up to Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeletewhat is going on with MIT? it's been 2 months nobody has reported anything on the sheet, i;m guessing interview requests went out and nobody reported? any insight?
ReplyDeleteSome chatter from spreadsheet before it's deleted: MIT went straight to onsites and they're currently under way. Duke intends to go straight to onsites and they'll invite those in mid Jan
ReplyDeleteThanks! Any word on UCIrvine?
DeleteNothing there, discussion has turned towards Cornell's searches now.
DeleteDoes anyone have any info on the Mount Sinai Pharmacological Sciences search in chem bio/med chem? It's been ~12 weeks from the deadline... I did try emailing for an update but didn't get a reply.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have a good list of which universities post their faculty candidates online? So far I've seen that Indiana University, University of Illinois U-C, and Texas A&M all post their faculty candidate seminars on their public calendars.
ReplyDeleteDuke, Harvard, mit, Stanford, Chicago, ut Austin, Cornell are some I’ve seen
DeletePretty sure I saw Vandy do it in the past. If you really want to know, look at their seminar list online. Sometimes they won't publish a nice list but will have several postdocs (or no title at all) scheduled for the semester.
DeleteYale does, too, for their phys chem, orgo and theo chem candidates
ReplyDeleteThough Yale has invited onsites, the search targets seniors
DeleteHow do you know that?
DeleteAs someone who has spoken to one of division profs. At least for one search they are not targeting senior hire. First the committee will vote on assist prof candidates and only if it fails will they move to seniors.
DeleteFor those having experience with proposal talk during campus interview from Chemistry, what are the common questions asked? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMine varied quite a bit from university to university. Some asked me about what classes I'd want to teach, teaching experience etc. Others wanted me to specify how the work I'm planning is differentiated from my grad/postdoc PI's work. Others were curious about what pieces of capital equipment were most important to execute on my research vision. People whose research is closer to yours may have questions about particular nuts-and-bolts kinds of things (potential side reactions in my case, for example).
DeleteExcellent examples, I can add that I was asked which project exactly I would start with and why (high-risk high-reward vs routine expts, long-term vs short-term readout, comp vs expt, etc)
DeleteSame as the above. I was also asked to outline my first grant - aims, what preliminary data I would need, etc. The structure/composition of my lab (who would get certain things done, how undergrads could play a role).
DeleteIn addition to the aforementioned questions, they may ask what major instruments are NOT available on campus and how you can carry out those experiments. What funding agency?
DeleteThank you for the helpful answers! Sounds like most of the time will be focused on higher level questions related to your research. Would they typically go into details and test your e.g. textbook knowledge?
DeleteI didn't get anything that felt like they were quizzing me qualifying exam style, but if they smell blood (sense a weakness) they could ask I suppose. Never heard of it happening, though.
DeleteI have seen that when I was in the audience as a graduate student. A candidate proposed a mechanism in their research talk and some professors did ask fundamental questions related to their model.
DeleteWant to share some information about Utah State inorganic position. Liu left the department mainly because he wanted to start his business career while for sure he was not happy about the department management. The department leadership did a poor job not to keep this very productive faulty. The department had a very notorious record in its inorganic division. All three previous inorganic faculty left for different unhappy reasons. Another inorganic faculty, Yujie Sun (now at UConn) left because he was unfairly treated by a senior inorganic colleague. Please be cautious if you are applying the inorganic opening at Utah State University. I also heard that the department head declined to offer the p-chem position for a top candidate that was selected by the p-chem search committee. The department atmosphere is really bad now. USU should consider changing the department head.
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