Tenure-Track: Assistant Professors of Entomology - Arthropod Systematics and Biodiversity

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Description The Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, invites applications for two (2) full-time, 9-month academic faculty positions as Assistant Professor of Entomology in Arthropod Systematics and Biodiversity. Both positions are located on the main campus of Texas A&M in College Station, TX. One of these positions will have responsibilities for research (50%), teaching (30%), and service (20%). The increased service percentage includes duties as the Curator of the Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC), where they will be responsible for its direction and development, including supervision of a full-time collection manager. The second position will have responsibilities for research (60%), teaching (30%), and service (10%), and will support the TAMUIC in their area of taxonomic specialization as a member of the departmental systematics group . Competitive candidates will have strong backgrounds in collection-based research, documented taxonomic expertise in one or more groups of insects or terrestrial arthropods, and strong records of scholarly accomplishment. Specialized experience and interests may include descriptiv...