Benefits offered include retirement, multiple medical insurance options, supplemental insurances (dental, life, long-term disability, accident, vision, long-term care, etc.), Tax Saver Flexible Benefits Plan (saves tax dollars on some childcare and medical expenses), university holidays (14 per year), generous annual (vacation) and sick leave benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and possible educational leave and tuition exemption for coursework at campuses of the LSU System. Sturgis (New Agronomy Bldg) Pay Grade: Other Academic Job Description: The visiting scholar will participate in sugarcane molecular genetics research on the development and application of genomic resources and quantitative genetics tools for the improvement of the sugarcane variety development programs in Louisiana and Guatemala.