Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 3-Year Visiting Position

Role details

The Chemistry Department at The College of Wooster invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry to begin in August 2024. The position is renewable for a total of three years pending a positive teaching performance in 2024-2025. We are looking for a broadly trained chemist with a commitment to teaching excellence. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. by the time of appointment.

Primary responsibilities include teaching general chemistry courses and laboratories within one’s specialization , with additional possible teaching opportunities in the chemistry curriculum and in mentoring undergraduates within Wooster’s nationally-recognized Senior Independent Study research program . The College of Wooster is an independent college of the liberal arts and sciences with a commitment to excellence in undergraduate education. We enroll a racially, socioeconomically, and culturally diverse student population of approximately 1,960 undergraduate students, of which 6% identify as Latinx, 10% as Black/African American, 4% as Asian, 4% as multiracial, and 60% as white.

Fifteen percent (15%) of our students are studying on international visas. Twenty-five percent (25%) are Pell-eligible, and 12% are first-generation college students. We are interested in hiring faculty who can contribute to the intellectual vibrancy of the community through culturally relevant pedagogy, curricular diversity, intercultural fluency, and a commitment to ensuring equitable outcomes for racially and ethnically minoritized and marginalized student groups . The Department of Chemistry has eight full-time faculty members and graduates approximately 15-20 majors annually, many of whom pursue advanced study and/or careers in chemistry.

The department is housed in a modern teaching/research space that was renovated and expanded in 2018 to integrate with our life sciences facilities. Department instrumentation accessible for use in student-mentored research includes a modern 400 MHz NMR spectrometer, a liquid chromatography high-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer (LC-QTOF-MS), and a liquid chromatography triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (LC- QqQ -MS), among other laboratory facilities. For more information, see https://wooster.edu/area/chemistry/ . The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. by the time of appointment.

Primary responsibilities include teaching general chemistry courses and laboratories within one’s specialization , with additional possible teaching opportunities in the chemistry curriculum and in mentoring undergraduates within Wooster’s nationally-recognized Senior Independent Study research program .