POSTDOC
Princeton University
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program

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The Council on Science and Technology is neither accepting applications nor awarding fellowships until further notice.

The Council on Science and Technology at Princeton University is seeking applicants for its Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program. The program is designed to provide up to three years of stipend support to postdoctoral fellows who wish to obtain further training in both research and teaching. The fellows will conduct research with Princeton University science or engineering faculty members. In addition, the fellows will be involved with the undergraduate educational program at Princeton University, including teaching, curriculum development and instructional laboratory design, and will work closely with an experienced mater teacher. The goal of the program is to prepare candidates for careers in both research and teaching.

The features of the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program include the following:

• Fellows will be selected based on their outstanding scientific achievements and on their excellence and interest in teaching.
• The fellowship duration is generally three years, allowing for the development of a significant piece of research (estimated to require two years), along with teaching experience; both activities are expected to be conducted concurrently.
• Each fellow must identify his/her research mentor at Princeton before submitting an application, as explained below, but does not necessarily have to choose a teaching mentor at application time. Upon selection, Council will recommend a teaching mentor if needed, according to the individual fellow's discipline and teaching interests.
• Teaching load typically involves one course per year, shared between the fellow and the mentor, gradually increasing the fellow's responsibility in the course, and allowing the fellow to assume full responsibility for a course in subsequent years if he/she so desires. No teaching is required during the first semester, although a fellow may choose to do so. The teaching semester may also be chosen according to other research constraints, such as field work obligations. In order to allow productive research, the program seeks a proper balance between research and teaching time.
• The Fellows Program conducts monthly lunchtime meetings, inviting guests speakers to exchange research and pedagogical interests and creating a community with the other Council fellows from various disciplines in the sciences and engineering.
• Modest funding is available for the reimbursement of initial relocation expenses, as well as a yearly trip to a conference or workshop.

Applicants should submit (by regular mail or as attachments to e-mail) the following documents:

• Application forms downloaded from the Council's Website
• CV and publication list
• Three letters of reference should be requested and mailed separately

Eligible candidates should have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in one of the sciences, or engineering fields, and be both interested and have previous experience in undergraduate teaching at a U.S. university. Before applying, applicants must first identify a research mentor from among the Princeton University science and engineering faculty, and obtain his or her agreement to act as research advisor. Candidates will be evaluated on the basis of their previous research and teaching accomplishments, as well as their proposed research plans at Princeton University. The stipend will be commensurate with experience. Princeton University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Applications are currently being accepted for fellows to begin in the fall of 2008. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2007. Interviews of the top candidates will be conducted at Princeton on January 21 & 22, 2008 and decisions will be announced by the end of February, 2008. Applications can be downloaded from the Council's Web Page or requested from stcweb@princeton.edu, cprevost@princeton.edu, or by calling Carol Prevost at (609) 258-4316.

For general information about applying to Princeton, please link to:http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm,,

Postdoctoral 2008/09 Application Deadline: December 1, 2007