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Department Chair Position
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
http://www.cis.uab.edu/Applications and nominations are being accepted for the position of Department Chair. Candidates should possess proven leadership and administrative skills and have an established reputation as a scholar. The Chair will be expected to provide vigorous leadership in the development of interdisciplinary collaboration initiatives in bioinformatics with the highly ranked UAB biomedical research community.
The Department of Computer and Information Sciences is one of five departments in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and administers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs. The department currently employs nine full-time faculty members and a number of adjunct faculty. The student population includes 476 undergraduate, 63 M.S., and 15 Ph.D. students as of Fall 2001. Departmental research strengths include object-oriented distributed computing, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, geometric modeling, and bioinformatics. Average research grant funding in the department is $242,000 per faculty member.
UAB is an urban university of 16,000 students located on a 270-acre campus in downtown Birmingham, a southeastern center of medicine, telecommunications and finance, with a population of more than 900,000. The university attracts more than $325 million per year in federal funding, which ranks it among the top 20 public institutions in the U.S. in NIH funding and 29th in total federal R & D funding. UAB is classified as a Carnegie Doctoral Research Extensive University. The UAB Office for the Advancement of Developing Industries (OADI), a business incubator, provides entrepreneurship opportunities and is host to a company founded by one of the department's recent Ph.D. graduates who was selected by MIT Technology Review Magazine as one of the top 100 young innovators for 2002.
The successful candidate will be appointed to a tenured position as Professor within the Department, with salary at a level commensurate with qualifications and experience. Letters of application should include a full curriculum vitae and names and addresses of five references. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled; screening will begin immediately. Applicants from minority and women applicants are especially encouraged.
Nominations or applications should be sent to:Chair_search@cis.uab.edu
or
Department Chair Search Committee
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170The University of Alabama at Birmingham is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.