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Duke University Dance Program Position announcement for Assistant Professor of the Practice in Ballet Position: Assistant Professor of the Practice in Ballet (regular rank) Start date: July/August 1, 2020 Position description: The Duke University Program in Dance seeks an outstanding professional with expertise in traditional and contemporary approaches to ballet technique and choreography, actively engaged in a combination of movement practice, creative process, and theoretical inquiry. We seek a candidate who embraces 21st-century approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives in ballet in contributing to the development of the undergraduate program as well as to the new MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis. We seek an individual with established relationships in the professional field - nationally and internationally - and who will continue the Program’s strong ties with the local community. Candidates with teaching / research experience that demonstrates work with a diverse student population will be valued. Responsibilities: Our new colleague will teach courses at all levels of ballet technique and performance projects, broadly defined, for the concert stage or other site-specific venues at the undergraduate and graduate levels; participate in interdisciplinary collaborations and/or investigations of the theoretical bases of contemporary dance practice. Additional areas of teaching expertise could include interdisciplinary creative work, creative technologies for dance, and / or somatic practices. Our new team-mate will provide leadership serving the undergraduate and graduate programs; engage in curriculum development and advising undergraduate and graduate students; assist with the production of dance events; cultivate, when possible, interdisciplinary collaborations with arts and non-arts faculty, students, and other constituencies; and participate in governance within the program, the university and the professional field. Our new colleague will contribute to ongoing projects in dance as a researcher, artist and administrator; will pursue or maintain a national and international profile as an artist/researcher; and will be committed to contributing alongside the current faculty to enhance the Dance Program’s ambitious vision. The Duke University Dance Program currently offers an MFA, a BA and a minor in Dance. The Dance Program is an independent unit within the University’s School of Arts and Sciences. Salary: Commensurate with qualifications.  

The University of New Hampshire, located in Durham, is a Research Land, Sea and Space Grant University that has been recognized both nationally and internationally for research excellence and a commitment to sustainability. The College of Life Sciences and Agriculture is organized into four interacting academic units plus the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station. UNH is the state’s flagship public research university. Our 15,000 graduate and undergraduate students are served by a full-time faculty of about 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The 188-acre campus is located in Durham, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast. For additional information regarding all that UNH, Durham, and New Hampshire have to offer, please see www.unh.edu . Summary of Position The Herbarium is seeking to hire a Collection Manager in the Department of Biological Sciences. The Collection Manager is responsible for the maintenance and organization of the collection, which involves oversight and documentation of all collection-related procedures, filing, labeling, and preparation of specimens. It also requires strong management skills. The Collection Manager is expected to maintain working knowledge of modern techniques in systematic botany, specimen digitization, database management, herbarium collection maintenance, and fieldwork. The building housing the herbarium is scheduled for expansion and renovation that will provide prominent new space for the collections. The Collection Manager will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing moving the collection into the new space and developing exhibits to highlight the collection. The Collection Manager, in conjunction with the Herbarium Director, will develop collection improvement grants. The Collection Manager reports to the Herbarium Director, supervises and works closely with students, faculty, staff and volunteers, working in the collections. The Collection Manager will be expected to teach two undergraduate courses each year including Systematic Botany. Additional Job Information       The College of Life Science and Agriculture maintains the Albion Hodgdon Herbarium, which contains over 200,000 specimens of vascular plants (120,000), marine macroalgae (84,000), bryophytes (1,600) and lichens. The collection is a preserved, documented, and curated assemblage important to a wide array of research and teaching activities. The presence and growth of the collection at UNH is important to the University, New Hampshire, and New England because it is a readily available local resource of identified voucher specimens for the region, as well as being used in research at the national and international levels. Most of the collection (95%) has been digitized and is accessible through online portals.  

  The Nicholas School of the Environment (NSOE) at Duke University invites applications for a faculty position in physical oceanography. This is one of four areas of interest for two tenure-track Assistant Professorships that NSOE plans to fill in the natural sciences. We seek an outstanding and visionary candidate who studies large- to regional-scale physical oceanography, focusing on such problems as ocean-atmospheric interactions and/or basin-scale material transport and mixing, especially as these may relate to past, current, and future climate and ocean environments. Applicant's work should be grounded in theory and use observational or modeling approaches. Successful candidates are expected to develop an externally funded and nationally recognized research program, teach and mentor undergraduate, professional and graduate students, and engage in service within NSOE, the University, and in the broader scientific community. Successful candidates are also expected to demonstrate a commitment to advancing excellence through diversity and inclusion.

Geoscientist The Nicholas School of the Environment (NSOE) at Duke University invites applications for a faculty position in Near-surface Geology and Geophysics. This is one of four areas of interestfor two tenure-track Assistant Professorships that NSOE plans to fill in the natural sciences. We seek an outstanding and visionary candidate who uses geologic and geophysical approaches to characterize subsurface energy, mineral, and/or water resources, or to elucidate geologic conditions that could lead to natural or anthropogenically induced geohazards. Successful candidates are expected to develop an externally funded and nationally recognized research program, teach and mentor undergraduate, professional and graduate students, and engage in service within NSOE, the University, and in the broader scientific community. Successful candidates are also expected to demonstrate a commitment to advancing excellence through diversity and inclusion.