Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry at Cornell College is seeking an organic chemist for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position beginning in August 2024.  Applicants must have an earned doctorate in chemistry or a closely related field by September 2024.

The successful candidate may be considered for a future tenure-track position.  The teaching load is six courses per year, with primary responsibilities in organic chemistry, additional responsibilities in general chemistry, and potentially an upper-level course in the second year.

The department seeks individuals committed to excellence and innovation in undergraduate education who will provide extensive mentoring to our diverse students.

The candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to the department’s strong student-faculty research program, including participation in our 8-week Cornell Summer Research Institute (https://www.cornellcollege.edu/research/).

The College strongly supports STEM education and routinely provides internal funding to facilitate student-faculty research.

The Chemistry department is located in the recently-built Russell Science Center, which houses a variety of instrumentation to support coursework and research projects, including several types of spectrometers (UV-vis, fluorescence, atomic absorption, ICP, and a 400-MHz NMR with autosampler), chromatography equipment (HPLC, GCMS, FPLC, and flash), and an atomic force microscope.

About Cornell College

Cornell College is a national liberal arts college committed to excellence in teaching and the creation of a welcoming community in which all individuals are respected and included.

Our innovative curriculum includes a focus on the essential abilities of writing, quantitative reasoning, and intercultural literacy as well as experiential learning.

Cornell’s One Course At A Time academic calendar is divided into eight 3½-week blocks in which students take and faculty teach a single course.

This one-at-a-time approach fosters strong student engagement and close faculty-student relationships while allowing faculty freedom to design and carry out their classes, on campus or off.

Because Cornell College values diversity and strives to create a welcoming community in which all individuals are respected and included, the entire campus community engages in dialogue around issues of difference, identity, and ideology.

The college is committed to fostering a faculty and staff community that reflects our diverse student body.

We encourage applications from candidates who share our vision for a campus that embraces differing backgrounds, viewpoints, and identities and who will excel at teaching and mentoring a broadly diverse student body.  (See our diversity statement.)

All Cornell faculty are expected to participate in service to their department and to the college and to facilitate their department's support of the college's Ingenuity core curriculum.

The college encourages interdisciplinary interests among ...