Texas Tech University seeks Professor

The Department of Animal and Food Sciences seeks to fill the new Mark and Celia Miller Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence with an associate or full professor. It is expected that this individual will promote excellence in the department through a strong teaching program focused on meat science. Additionally, it is expected that this individual will further promote meat science research within their area of expertise in collaboration with current faculty. Finally, this individual will contribute significantly to the meat science program and departmental outreach and engagement needs. This will be accomplished, in part, through enhancing relationships with stakeholders. Among stakeholders, primary emphasis will be given to outreach and engagement activities which promote meat science at Texas Tech University and recruitment of the highest quality undergraduate students. This position will also have an expectation of service to the department, college, university and professional associations.

This is a 9-month, tenure-track position with 50% teaching, 30% outreach and engagement, 15% research, and 5% service appointment. The candidate should have demonstrated expertise in meat science and an understanding of animal agriculture. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have the capacity to effectively communicate about these topics to a broad range of audiences, including but not limited to, undergraduate and graduate students, high school students, industry professionals, and meat scientists. The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate and instruct with other faculty in animal science disciplines including nutrition, meat and food science, judging, physiology, behavior, welfare, and others as related to their expertise. The successful candidate will build an outreach and engagement portfolio to achieve excellence by serving as a catalyst, collaborator and connector to foster mutually beneficial partnerships between the university and the community (https://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/outreach-engagement/).

Additionally, the successful candidate will build an extramurally funded research program that targets relevant funding agencies, such as commodity groups, foundations, and private industry. In addition to these, the candidate may also lead efforts to apply for federal funding to enhance scholarship of teaching in the meat science program and department. Likewise, the candidate may contribute to other federally funded research or integrated proposals, with emphasis on meeting deliverables related to outreach or teaching within integrated proposals.