Assistant Professor

Employment Type: Permanent Faculty

Vacancy ID: FAC0006130

Salary Range: Commensurate with Education and Experience

Position Summary/Description:

The primary purpose of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is to provide excellent education, research and service in the field. This goal breaks down into four important components: 1) to teach psychology and neuroscience to undergraduates in a manner that will introduce them vigorously to its broad scope; 2) to offer scientific and professional training to graduate students in the areas of behavioral and integrative neuroscience, clinical, cognitive, developmental, quantitative, and social psychology; 3) to carry out cutting-edge research in these areas, and 4) to provide consulting and administrative support services to the science and profession of psychology and neuroscience as well as to the university, the community, the state, and the nation.

The Department consists of six programs: behavioral and integrative neuroscience; clinical psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; quantitative psychology, and social psychology. Each program is designed to acquaint the student thoroughly with the theoretical and research content of the specialty and to provide training in the research skills needed to become a competent and creative investigator. In addition, the programs focus on the development of appropriate professional skills.

The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience currently ranks 2nd in the College in grant funding with over $12 million annually in awarded grants and approximately $20 million annually in expenditures from all funds. The department has two large undergraduate majors (Psychology and Neuroscience) in the College of Arts and Sciences with approximately 2900 total majors, a minor in Neuroscience and one of the largest graduate Ph.D. programs with approximately 120 graduate students. The Department is also home to the UNC Psychology and Neuroscience Community Clinic, which provides therapeutic treatment and assessment services to a variety of constituencies on campus and in the community.