Announcement of Statistics Faculty Opening Tenure-track Assistant Professorship Applications are invited for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Statistics starting August 2009. Applicants must show promise of excellence in both scholarly research and teaching, as well as interest in research collaboration. Research interests compatible with those of current faculty members are desirable. These include modern computational statistics, statistical genetics, spatial statistics, Bayesian inference, time series, categorical data analysis, and bioinformatics. Opportunities abound for interdisciplinary research in medicine and public health, economics, environmental sciences, engineering, law and justice, and other areas. The Department and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are strongly committed to gender and ethnic diversity; the strategic plans of the University, College and Department reflect this commitment. Applicants must complete a Ph.D. prior to August 19, 2009, and must be free to assume the duties of this position on that date. Candidates must submit applications online at http://jobs.uiowa.edu/. Do not mail paper applications. Screening of applications begins on December 1, 2008, and will continue until the position is filled. Attachments to the application must include the letter of interest, curriculum vitae, name and contact information of references, statement on research, statement on teaching, Ph.D. thesis abstract, publications, manuscripts in progress, and graduate transcripts. Refer to requisition number 55837. Please also arrange to have three letters of reference sent to: Statistics Search Committee Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1409 Email: statistics-search@stat.uiowa.edu The Department currently has 18 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 9 Fellows of the American Statistical Association. The Ph.D. degree is offered in statistics, and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in both actuarial science and statistics. For additional information about the Department, please refer to the website: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/ Founded in 1847, the University of Iowa offers its 29,000 students over 100 areas of study. Among the University's distinctions are one of the largest university-owned teaching hospitals in the nation, and the internationally accaimed Writers' Workshop, which fostered the talents of Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, and Kurt Vonnegut. In 2008 Forbes ranked Iowa City #10 America's Smartest City. In 2007 Sperling's ranked Iowa City #5 Best Places to Live in the nation, and Outdoor Magazine ranked Iowa City the #1 Best Midwestern Town. In 2006 Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine ranked Iowa City the #10 Smartest Places to Live in the nation. Iowa City is located within 300 miles of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. The regional airport isserved by 5 airlines. For more information on Iowa City, please visit: http://www.icgov.org/.

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