<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Dear Colleagues,<br><br><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-170231d2-7fff-34b5-3925-3124a0281ffa"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The </span><a href="https://slss.vcu.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">School of Life Sciences and Sustainability</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (SLSS) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) invites applications for three Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. </span></span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-2004e358-7fff-831a-9c32-b7bc68d126d6"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Full position descriptions and application instructions are available at</span><a href="https://vcujobs.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://vcujobs.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (search by position number).</span></span><br><ol><li><b>Tenure track position in </b><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e4ae09a8-7fff-1b4f-b8ce-b383ca7372e7"><b><a href="https://vcujobs.com/jobs/assistant-professor-earth-system-science-school-of-life-sciences-and-sustainability-vcu-main-campus-virginia-united-states" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Earth System Science (Position No. 45000999)</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b> </b>Seeking a candidate whose work integrates modeling, remote sensing, and/or field observations to investigate large-scale linkages among terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic processes. The ideal candidate will complement the scholarship of current SLSS faculty and utilize the resources of VCU’s field station, the </span><a href="https://ricerivers.vcu.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Rice Rivers Center</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.
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</b><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fce9df5f-7fff-bb63-b9be-325b39202e29"><b><a href="https://vcujobs.com/jobs/assistant-professor-ecology-school-of-life-sciences-and-sustainability-vcu-main-campus-virginia-united-states" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Ecology (Position No. 45001000)</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Teach lecture and lab courses in ecology and related areas; contribute to general biology instruction.

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