This presentation was designed to assist and educate the interviewee regarding balancing teaching and research for new faculty, and was authored by Sarah Keller (UW).
The following slides are too dense with information. I think that’s OK. Most of the information will be useful to you after you are hired, rather than before. I want this document to serve as a self-contained resource online when you (and others who were not accepted to this conference) need it in the future. - SLK
Yes! We are hiring in the Chem. Dept. at
UW Seattle!
We typically have 2 openings every year.
Please apply!
How we hire faculty at uw chemistry...
We receive>300 applications for 2 advertised positions.
Step 1: sort and file
A secretary punches holes in the top of your pages, binds them in a folder so absent-minded professors don’t lose them,
reads your cover letter, decides whether you are a physical/organic/inorganic/materials/analytical/”OTHER” chemist and puts your file in that box.
Advice at step 1
State your subfield clearly in your letter so your file doesn’t end up in the wrong box. If you are interdisciplinary, state what you’d teach.
“Within your department, I would teach physical chemistry, so would fit in your P-chem division, even though my closest research colleagues are in your division of inorganic chemistry.
Leave big margins at the top of all pages. Do not print doublesided.
Step 2: file the letters of recommendation
As your letters arrive,
a secretary binds them on top of the materials already in your folder,and checks off a list of how many of your 3 letters have arrived.
Advice at step 2
Call the secretary to verify that all of your letters have arrived.
Letters do get lost in the mail. A committee member may assume that a writer doesn’t like you if his/her letter if it is missing. Sometimes it is true!You want to find out early if one of your writers has not been forthright with you, and you need to ask a different writer.
Your letters of recommendation are on top. Faculty tend to read them first. Do all you can to help your writers produce a good letter for you.
Provide them with a list of talking points (and address labels).
It is often the third writer who impresses the committee. Your Ph.D. advisor probably loves you. Your postdoctoral advisor probably loves you. If you’ve gotten someone else to love you, that’s quite valuable.
Step 3: narrow it down
A single faculty member can read on the order of 100 folders, then winnow out the top 20, and also probably note the top 10.
Advice at step 3
By the 99th application, that faculty member is really tired.
Don’t send us every paper you’ve written.
We don’t want to read 20 pages at 10-point font in your research proposal.
Hopefully you’ve written your research proposal very clearly. Don’t just describe how interesting your field is, but tell us exactly what you will do. For UW, this document should be>3 pages… 5 is good… 10 is longish.
Outline what your first experiments will be: something that a beginning grad student or postdoc can do to produce preliminary results, an early publication, and subsequent funding.
Outline the eventual experiments you will do to address a big, sexy, important problem, that is not just an extension of your previous work… backed up with lots of references.
Diagrams outlining your research plan are helpful.
Questions & Answers
A golfer on a fairway is 70 m away from the green, which sits below the level of the fairway by 20 m. If the golfer hits the ball at an angle of 40° with an initial speed of 20 m/s, how close to the green does she come?
A mouse of mass 200 g falls 100 m down a vertical mine shaft and lands at the bottom with a speed of 8.0 m/s. During its fall, how much work is done on the mouse by air resistance
Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with the study of matter,it composition,it structure and the changes it undergoes
Adjei
please, I'm a physics student and I need help in physics
Adjanou
chemistry could also be understood like the sexual attraction/repulsion of the male and female elements. the reaction varies depending on the energy differences of each given gender. + masculine -female.
Pedro
A ball is thrown straight up.it passes a 2.0m high window 7.50 m off the ground on it path up and takes 1.30 s to go past the window.what was the ball initial velocity
2. A sled plus passenger with total mass 50 kg is pulled 20 m across the snow (0.20) at constant velocity by a force directed 25° above the horizontal. Calculate (a) the work of the applied force, (b) the work of friction, and (c) the total work.
you have been hired as an espert witness in a court case involving an automobile accident. the accident involved car A of mass 1500kg which crashed into stationary car B of mass 1100kg. the driver of car A applied his brakes 15 m before he skidded and crashed into car B. after the collision, car A s
can someone explain to me, an ignorant high school student, why the trend of the graph doesn't follow the fact that the higher frequency a sound wave is, the more power it is, hence, making me think the phons output would follow this general trend?
Nevermind i just realied that the graph is the phons output for a person with normal hearing and not just the phons output of the sound waves power, I should read the entire thing next time
Joseph
Follow up question, does anyone know where I can find a graph that accuretly depicts the actual relative "power" output of sound over its frequency instead of just humans hearing
Joseph
"Generation of electrical energy from sound energy | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore" ***ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7150687?reload=true
A string is 3.00 m long with a mass of 5.00 g. The string is held taut with a tension of 500.00 N applied to the string. A pulse is sent down the string. How long does it take the pulse to travel the 3.00 m of the string?
