Assistant Professor of Biology - Animal Behavior

Job description

Description Located in Portland, Oregon, Lewis & Clark College is a small liberal arts college with 2,100 undergraduates. We invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Biology with expertise in vertebrate animal behavior and evolution. We believe doing science is the best way to learn science, and we prize transformative and inclusive undergraduate mentorship starting in the classroom and extending to our research programs. The ideal candidate will conduct research centered on understanding vertebrate behavior in either terrestrial, freshwater or marine systems, and should be committed to developing a productive, inclusive, and externally funded research program involving undergraduates. The successful candidate will be broadly trained, with an organismal, field-oriented perspective that appreciates the role of natural history in providing entry points for student engagement, learning, and inspiration. This perspective will support their teaching in a rotating slate of five lecture or lab courses per academic year. Courses may include our core introductory Biology series, upper division Animal Behavior with lab, Evolution, one or more u...