Applicants must provide a current cover letter that includes a brief description of 1) your preparation to teach undergraduate majors level general microbiology with a focus on bacteria and microbial diversity with lecture (2 hrs/wk) and laboratory (6 hrs/wk), a proposed research program at a comprehensive, regional, state university involving both undergraduate and Master’s level graduate students (including your area of research and teaching background, and how you have addressed, or plan to address teaching to diverse student groups), 3) a CV, and 4) contact information of three professional references. The Department of Biological Sciences includes 13 tenure track faculty, 12 part-time lecturer faculty, 25 master’s students, and 500 undergraduate biology majors with options in cell & molecular biology, organismal, evolutionary, and ecological biology, or plant biology, as well as 80 microbiology majors in general or medical microbiology.