Tenure Track Position Available:
Asst. Prof. of Physics

McMurry University, a United Methodist affiliated liberal arts university, seeks to fill a tenure-track assistant professorship in Physics beginning August 2008. The successful applicant is expected to teach undergraduate physics courses at all levels (including courses for non-science majors), carry out a modest research program, and be willing to support the University Mission Statement. Additional consideration will be given to those applicants who can involve undergraduates in research and/or who have an experimental or engineering physics background. A Ph.D. in Physics or Engineering Science is required by the start date.

To apply, please send

A letter of application (please give us a sense of your personality, your background, your interests, and how these fit with McMurry)
Curriculum vitae
Graduate and undergraduate transcripts (these may be unofficial transcripts initially, but we will need official transcripts from the final candidate)
A brief statement (about a page) of your teaching philosophy
Brief statements(less than 3 pages if possible) of your research interests. Please address:

your interests briefly,
if and how you can involve undergraduates,
if you have significant equipment needs, and
if you have grant-writing experience.

Three letters of recommendation

Dean Gary Wilson
McMurry University, Box 57
Abilene, TX 79697

Full consideration will be given to those who apply before December 7, 2007. Upon receiving your application materials, we will send you a standard (administrative) application form to fill out and return, thereby completing your application. It is important that you fill out the application form and return it promptly as we cannot fully consider your application until the form is returned.

Contact: Paper correspondence should go to Dean Wilson so that the information can be placed in your folder. You should direct any questions related to application materials to the Dean's office at (325) 793-4774. Questions about the position should be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Tikhon Bykov: bykovt@mcmurryadm.mcm.edu, (325) 793-4875.

The normal teaching load is 3 lectures and 2 labs per week. General education courses have typical enrollments between 15 and 30 students; upper division physics courses have enrollments of 5 + 2 students. Freshman physics enrollment (students in the first course for majors) as been gradually increasing over the past several years. McMurry is a Project Kaleidoscope Leadership Initiative Institution and a member of the National Undergraduate Research Observatory consortium.

McMurry University links:
School of Natural and Computational Sciences	Department of Physics	McMurry Course Catalog
Abilene, TX links:
Abilene Reporter News	City Sponsored Site	Corporate Sponsored Site
McMurry New Employee Web Page

Updates:

9/21/07 Update SNCS Links WK.

9/3/07 Update New Employee Link WK.

8/24/07 Add Engineering Science WK.

8/22/07 Wording updated WK.

7/23/07 Created Page WK.

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Tenure Track Position Available: Asst. Prof. of Physics

Tenure Track Position Available:
Asst. Prof. of Physics