The School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Texas State University is searching for a full-time tenure-track faculty position (Assistant Professor) in Nutrition. The proposed start date is Fall 2024.
Institution (Location)
Texas State University
Position Description
Candidate’s Qualifications (who should apply)
Required Qualifications
- Earned PhD or equivalent doctorate degree in nutrition (with at least 18 graduate hours of coursework in nutrition); ABD candidates will not be considered;
- Experience teaching at an accredited college or university;
- At least one year of postdoctoral research/scholar experience;
- Experience engaging with, creating, or managing large datasets;
- Research with human participants, patients, or clients;
- An active research program related to one or more of the following areas and focusing on dietary patterns and nutrition on individual, community, or population health, mother/child dyad outcomes, or chronic disease;
o Nutrition interventions, including planning, design, implementation, evaluation or analyses of randomized controlled trials, or implementation science;
o Nutrition epidemiology, including analyses of national panel surveys, national cohort studies, large randomized controlled trials, complex or big data;
o Systems or computational biology or analyses of proteomic, metabolomic, transcriptomic, nutrigenomic, nutrigenetic, or microbiome data from diverse biological samples
- Experience writing or co-writing grant applications for external funding;
- Recent publications in impactful journals related to the above-mentioned research topics.
Preferred Qualifications
- Registered dietitian credential;
- Experience teaching courses as instructor of record at the collegiate level;
- Experience teaching research methods, statistics/biostatistics, or epidemiology courses at the graduate level;
- Experience applying for federal grants;
- Experience securing external funding as a PI, Co-PI, or as the nutrition lead;
- Experience mentoring undergraduate or graduate students;
- Teaching or research awards received at the graduate or postdoctoral level;
- Undergraduate degree in nutrition.
How to Apply
Candidates should apply via Texas State University Jobs website: https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/43569. Please create an account and submit the required materials to posting:
- Cover letter that addresses all required and preferred qualifications
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research statement (Summary of past research accomplishments and plans for future research)
- Teaching philosophy statement
- Unofficial Transcripts
- Contact information for three references.
Review of materials will begin on October 2, 2023.
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