This network of clusters will establish a cohort of new professors who can transform our institution’s ability to address the grand challenges facing society in Illinois and around the world such as ameliorating the impacts of climate change on food security, human health, and ecosystem integrity, developing alternative technologies for clean energy and agricultural sustainability, and addressing social injustice arising from environmental inequities. As a result, UIUC will be able to build on our existing strengths in convergence research with a quantum leap toward the holistic and transdisciplinary team-building needed to address the most challenging problems of the 21st century. Research across these fields would be focused on interrelated issues central to the common theme of establishing a sustainable, just, and resilient society during the remarkable transitions facing society in the 21st century due to the earth’s rapidly evolving physical and human environment. We envision a cohort of new hires bringing new and diverse research ideas that involve collaborations across the college to address the grand challenges facing society.
We are searching for the following positions:
Assistant Professor, Environmental Journalism, Department of Journalism, College of Media
Assistant Professor, Climate change and climate projections, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor, Climate Justice and/or Environmental Justice, Department of Geography and GIS, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor, Climate-driven environmental hazards, Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor, Insect Microbiomes, Department of Entomology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor, Any subdiscipline of Plant Biology, Department of Plant Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Health Humanities and Environmental Justice, Department of Asian American Studies
Associate or Full Professor, Shelford-Pitelka-Batzli Professorship in Mammalian Ecology, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The new hires will be encouraged to participate both in new programming and ongoing events designed to help connect scholars around these important issues.
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