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disability/medical or religious exemption by December 8, 2021, or
before their start date if after December 8. Assistant/Associate/Full
Professor
Nutrition and
Global Health Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
The Division of Nutritional
Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University invites applications for a cluster hire comprised of two positions in nutrition
and global health: this cluster links to initiatives in the Division including external partnerships with the
World Health Organization, Cochrane, and others. Both positions are for 9-month,
full-salaried, tenure-track faculty
members, with an expectation to hire one Assistant
Professor and one Associate/Full Professor. We seek experienced candidates with demonstrated research excellence and a
recognized scholarly reputation, appropriate for rank, in nutrition and global health. Successful
candidates should have experience in interdisciplinary research addressing the role of nutrition in human health and disease
particularly in international settings.
Candidates are expected
to be leaders in their disciplines and have demonstrated research excellence. Commensurate with rank,
research excellence should be demonstrated by an active, externally funded research program as well as by a substantial
record of publication in recognized peer- reviewed
journals. Candidates may have disciplinary expertise in nutrition,
epidemiology, data science and/or medicine or a related field. Individuals working at the
intersection of related fields such
as those leveraging the use of big data, bioinformatics, and advances in
artificial intelligence to address challenges in nutrition and global health are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will be expected to teach at both
the undergraduate and graduate level.
The Division
of Nutritional Sciences
The Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University is among the largest academic
units in the United
States devoted to human nutrition and is distinguished by its
multi‐disciplinary faculty. The mission
of DNS is to advance discovery in basic disciplines and to promote
the health and well‐being of populations in the U.S. and globally. The scholarly activities
in DNS include research, education and translation,
and extension and outreach. These activities integrate knowledge across the
physical, biological, and social sciences
to address important questions related to nutrition and health, food systems, and social and institutional
environments and governmental policies related to nutrition and human health. The multidisciplinary
environment supports faculty who work across the Division’s 4 programmatic foci of Precision Nutrition, Lifecycle Nutrition,
Food and Nutrition Systems, and Social and
Behavioral Nutrition. The DNS undergraduate program consists of four majors (~750 students in total) and a University-wide minor in
Global Health. The Nutritional Sciences
and Global and Public Health Sciences majors are offered in the
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and in the College
of Human Ecology (CHE), the Human Biology,
Health and Society
major is offered in CHE, and the
concentration in Nutrition in the Biological Sciences Major is offered
in CALS and the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Division is home
to the Food and Nutrition Education in Communities program, which leads
the New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
(NYS EFNEP) delivered
through the Cornell
Cooperative Extension (CCE)
system. DNS is the administrative home for the
Cornell Graduate Field of Nutrition and the Graduate Field of Epidemiology and
currently has two NIH- sponsored
training grants to support pre- and post-doctoral trainees. DNS is the only
nutrition-focused World Health
Organization | PAHO Collaborating Center in the US and is an Affiliate Center
in the US Cochrane Network. Academic Environment at Cornell University
Cornell is a major Land Grant research and teaching institution established in 1865 with both endowed and state‐assisted
units. The student population on the Ithaca campus is approximately 5,350 graduate/professional students and more
than 14,000 undergraduates. Cornell offers a strong, interdisciplinary research environment, and has ongoing campus‐wide investments in Radical Collaborations that seek to leverage our
uniquely collaborative environment to advance the areas of social sciences, sustainability, data science,
digital agriculture, genome biology, humanities and arts, infection biology, nanoscale science and
molecular engineering. Other Cornell programs and initiatives include Cornell Cooperative Extension,
the Cornell Center for Health Equity, the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality, the Global Cornell
Initiative, the Engaged Cornell Initiative, and the Academic Integration Initiative that seeks to strengthen linkages among Weill Cornell Medicine,
Cornell Tech and Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca, NY. Qualifications:
The candidate is expected to have:
- A doctoral degree
(e.g., PhD, ScD, DrPH, MD/PhD)
in nutrition, epidemiology, medicine, or a related field
- Demonstrated research excellence in DNS’
strategic focus areas including maternal and child nutrition, precision nutrition, obesity and chronic disease
prevention, and biological systems and networks linked
to nutrition-related
phenotypes
- Commensurate
with rank, demonstrated research excellence supported
by a record of publication in the field and a strong externally funded research program
- An interest in building academic
linkages within DNS program areas, and with other departments and centers throughout the University
- Interest in teaching
at the undergraduate and graduate
level
Responsibilities:
The candidate is expected
to: - Maintain a vigorous,
externally funded research
program
- Maintain a high level of scholarly activity
- Mentor graduate
students
- Forge professional relationships within the Division
of Nutritional Sciences
and other academic
units on campus
- Participate in the Division of Nutritional Sciences’ undergraduate and graduate
teaching programs
Academic Rank and Compensation:
The two positions, which are part
of this cluster hire, are 9-month appointments, with the expectation of tenure. The Assistant and the Associate/Full position are designated as 50%
effort in research, 50% in teaching/instruction. Salary level will depend on experience and
expertise and will be competitive with comparable positions at peer universities.
Applicants must apply through
Academic Jobs Online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19711 and upload a cover letter, CV, research statement, a teaching
statement, and a statement of diversity. Applicants must also arrange for three confidential letters of
recommendation to be submitted through Academic Jobs Online. Review of applications will begin in late October 2021 and will continue until this position
has been filled.
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