Positions Available:
Faculty
- Assistant/Associate Professor of Turfgrass Management, Full time, Tenure-track The successful candidate is expected to provide oversight for the Certificate Program in Golf Course Turfgrass Management, including curriculum coordination, student recruitment, advising, and budgetary matters, as well as teach two to three courses per 8-week term of the program. (Posted January 18, 2008)
Graduate Assistantships
- Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship in Hydropedology — A motivated student is sought to pursue a Ph.D. in hydropedology, with an emphasis on integrated interdisciplinary and technology-enhanced approaches to research and teaching at the interface between pedology, hydrology, and landscape/geomorphology.
(Updated November 21, 2007) - Department-Funded Graduate Assistantships. The Department annually awards assistantships to highly qualified students to pursue graduate study in Agronomy and Soil Science. Current thrust areas include crop ecology and management, plant genetics and molecular biology, turfgrass science, biogeochemical processes, land use, and soil and water quality. Competitive stipends and a benefit plan that includes a tuition waiver and 80% of health care premiums bring the total value of an annual package to > $32,000. For more information contact David Sylvia, Department Head, dmsylvia@psu.edu.
Post-doctoral positions
- Postdoc/Research Associate Position in Hydropedology/Soil Hydrology and Hillslope/Catchment Hydrology. (Posted April 21, 2008)
Staff
- Senior Extension Associate and Director, Agriculture and Environment Science and Policy Center. (Posted June 6, 2007)
Wage staff
- Summer Research Opportunity in Urban Biogeochemistry, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. (Posted April 2, 2008)
- Student Assistant to assist research in environmental soil and water sciences in Summer 2008, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Hydropedology Research. (Posted April 21, 2008)
- Work Study Student Research Opportunities, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Maize Molecular Genetics Laboratory.
