Faculty -Organic Chemistry

About Bellarmine University:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.

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Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Job Description:

The Department of Chemistry and Physics at Bellarmine University invites applications for a tenure track position in Organic Chemistry at the rank of assistant professor effective August 15, 2024. Teaching responsibilities include introductory and advanced courses in organic chemistry, and lower division service courses as necessary. Candidates with undergraduate teaching experience are preferred. Although Bellarmine's primary mission is teaching, successful candidates are expected to develop an active undergraduate research program.  Publications co-authored with undergraduate students in peer-reviewed journals will be strongly encouraged.  Research instrumentation includes FT-NMR, FTIR, GC/MS, and HPLC-MS. 

Requirements:

A Ph.D. in organic chemistry or a related field is required.

Additional Information:

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Application Instructions:

Submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, a description of research (including an estimate of research expenses), sample student evaluations if available, and contact information for three professional references. To apply, click on the appropriate link in this posting.  Consideration of complete application packets will begin January 5, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

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