Assistant​/Associate or Full Professor

Position Details

Posting Number: PG194348EP
Internal Recruitment:
No

Working Title:

Assistant/Associate or Full Professor
Anticipated Hiring Range:
Commensurate with education, experience and rank at the time of hire

Work Schedule:

8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday (additional work outside of standard hours may be required due to business needs)

Job Location:

Raleigh, North Carolina
Department:
Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Program

The Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at NC State University serves as an international hub of interdisciplinary research, engaged scholarship and dialogues surrounding opportunities and challenges associated with genetic engineering and society. Positioned at the nexus of science and technology, the social sciences and humanities, the GES Center has taken a national and international lead in examining the technical, ethical, and societal dimensions of the products and impacts of biotechnology.
The GES cluster and center has been lauded as the “poster child for interdisciplinarity” at NC State through its composition, projects, educational programs, and events that span the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, arts, and engineering.

About The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program ( CFEP )
NC State launched the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program in 2011 as part of the  strategic plan to bring the nation’s best and brightest faculty to campus. The program enhances the university’s commitment to supporting and expanding interdisciplinarity through outstanding research and scholarship, and strengthens NC State’s historic expertise in the sciences, engineering, math, design, textiles, humanities and social sciences, and education.

The program’s efforts align with NC State’s land-grant mission and vision, and build momentum toward strategic goals outlined in the new strategic plan, Wolfpack 2030:
Powering the Extraordinary.

The current 20 clusters have been selected on these important criteria:

• Ability to achieve national eminence in proposed topic
• Alignment with university strategic priorities
• Demonstration of real interdisciplinarity
• Potential to build on an existing university strength (or strength of the existing assets)
• Opportunity for faculty to engage in both research and teaching of proposed topic
• Ability to attract funding
• Commitment to share resources and physical infrastructure
• Commitment to interdisciplinarity and collaboration among multiple colleges
• Demonstration of a balanced hiring plan with clear leadership

The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program is supported and managed by the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs. The program has grown from an initial 12 clusters to 20 clusters today.

• Bioinformatics
• Carbon Electronics
• Data-driven Science
• Digital Transformation of Education
• Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security
• Environmental Health Science
• Forensic Sciences
• Genetic Engineering and Society
• Geospatial Analytics
• Global Environmental Change and Human Well-Being
• Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
• High-dimensional Integration of Biological Systems
• Leadership in Public Science
• Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities
• Modeling the Living Embryo
• Precision Medicine
• Sustainable Energy Systems and Policy
• Synthetic and Systems Biology
• Translational Regenerative Medicine (now Translational Predictive Biology)
• Visual Narrative

More than 75 current NC State faculty have been hired through the program. In addition to recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and promoting NC State’s continued excellence and national renown, the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cultivates a growing culture of interdisciplinarity at the university. We invite you to explore more information about the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program and this cluster at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Related programs and facilities at NC State:
Bioinformatics Research Center ( BRC )
Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center ( BTEC )
Comparative Medicine Institute ( CMI )
Data Science Academy ( DSA )
Genetics & Genomics Academy ( GGA )
Integrative Sciences Initiative ( ISI)

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