What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Professor - Biology Education position at UMass Boston?
The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor to pursue a teaching and research program focused on Biology education and/or pedagogy in science. The position will begin September 1, 2026. We will prioritize candidates who are committed to improving student success in the first years of undergraduate study. The faculty member will focus on teaching and/or leading instructional teams in our core first-year General Biology courses. They will also stimulate the development of pedagogical models that can be adapted for other courses, establish an externally funded research program, direct the research of graduate and undergraduate students, and interact with a dynamic group of biologists in research areas ranging from molecular and cellular biology to ecology and evolution. Applicants must have a PhD or equivalent degree and relevant postdoctoral research or teaching experience. Commitment to excellence in teaching and to applying innovative pedagogical approaches is expected.
Application instructions: Candidates should submit: (i) a cover letter detailing how their proposed research and teaching would contribute to and complement work within the Department, (ii) a curriculum vitae, (iii) a statement of teaching philosophy, including teaching experience, areas of teaching strength, and their vision for the first-year biology courses, and (iv) a statement of research plans. Applicants should also include contact information for three references. Applications should be submitted by December 1, 2025, for full consideration. Review of applications will then continue until the position is filled.
For further information, visit the Biology Department website at http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology or contact the Chair of Search Committee, Brian White at brian.white@umb.edu or Rachel Skvirsky, Chair of Biology, at rachel.skvirsky@umb.edu.
UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.
