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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Times">As part of
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Georgia Tech’s</b> continuing growth in the biological sciences, the
<b>School of Biological Sciences </b>is searching for the <b><span style="color:#545454;background:white">Elizabeth Smithgall Watts</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<b>Ecology and Conservation</b>. We favor exceptional candidates at the late associate or early full professor stage, but will consider any candidate with an outstanding record of scholarly contributions.
<span style="color:black">We encourage candidates focusing on macro-organisms in any system, or using any approach, but are especially interested in experimentalists making significant contributions to areas including
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">field ecology in natural or urban settings, population or community ecology, conservation, behavior, or chemical ecology.</span>
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Candidates will be favored if their research integrates well with the department's strengths in ecology, evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, microbial ecology, or marine ecology. This chair facilitates interactions
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</span>Biological Sciences also has research/educational partnerships with the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia Aquarium, and several Atlanta-area universities.
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<span style="font-family:Times">The <b>Georgia Institute of Technology</b> is <span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">
located in the diverse, and thriving metropolis of Atlanta, is consistently a top ranked educational and research institution, and prides itself on its resources, collaborations, quantitative and rigorous undergraduate student body, and its commitment to diversity,
equity, and inclusion</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Candidates can submit online at
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, including a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three to five references. Review of applications begins October 1, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled.</span><b><span style="font-size:
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text1">Georgia Tech is an equal education/employment opportunity institution dedicated to building a diverse community. We strongly encourage applications from women, under-represented minorities, individuals
with disabilities, and veterans. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
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