The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) established the University Strategic Partnership in 2003. This partnership supports DTRA’s twin requirements for: the provision of innovative independent academic research on reducing the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction; and the development of the next generation of supportive critical-skill scientists and engineers. The success of the University Strategic Partnership is significantly contingent upon the uninterrupted performance of assigned research projects that have time-sensitive achievement milestones.
The objective of this fellowship program is to assist DTRA to address critical scientific, technology and engineering needs for reducing the threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This program will enable DTRA to utilize mission-critical expertise possessed by highly qualified faculty and graduate students (nearing completion of their degree) who hold doctoral or terminal professional degrees in relevant scientific, technical and engineering disciplines.
Post-Doctoral Fellows will be selected based upon their responsive ability to enhance the DTRA mission to counter WMD. Key science and technology skills include: nuclear and radiation physics; weapons engineering; chemistry of materials, structural, electrical and mechanical engineering; broad-based nano-technological science and applications; weapons effects and system response technologies; physics, chemistry and biological sciences related to detection, characterization and destruction of WMD materials; medical and pharmaceutical sciences; information technology, modeling, data visualization and advanced computational sciences; social, adversarial and behavioral modeling and analysis.
Additional Information
For a qualified candidate, this opportunity would provide the following to a US citizen, capable of obtaining a security clearance at the Secret level, to spend one year working at DTRA (Fort Belvior):
Jan Mahar Sturdevant (jbm18@psu.edu) for more details such as the recruitment letter and application.
Thrust area 1: Science of WMD Sensing and Recognition
Thrust area 2: Cognitive and Information Science
Thrust area 3: Science for Protection
Thrust area 4: Science to Defeat WMD
Thrust area 5: Science to Secure WMD
Thrust area 6: Cooperative Counter WMD Research with Global Partners
]]>The Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is seeking candidates for the position of Frymoyer Chair. The Frymoyer Chair is a tenured, full professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The anticipated start date is Fall 2012 or Spring 2013.
The endowed chair was established in 1999 through a gift of $1.5 million from the Edward J. Frymoyer Foundation. The holder of the Frymoyer Chair is expected to have a significant impact not only in the College, but also across multiple disciplines at the University and in the public and private sectors. Funds from the endowment will support the chair holder's contributions to instruction, research, and public service with the overall intent to foster the use, benefits, and effectiveness of the information sciences around the globe.
The Pennsylvania State University is the land-grant University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is comprised of the University Park campus, where the College is located, and 23 other campuses throughout the state.
The College was founded in 1998 to develop information science and technology leaders for the digital, global society, and enrolled its first class of students in the 1999-2000 academic year. The College at University Park, which includes 50 full-time faculty, currently serves approximately 1100 undergraduate students, 110 resident graduate students, primarily in the Ph.D. program, and 100 non-resident graduate students in a professional master’s degree program. In addition, the IST undergraduate curriculum is offered at 19 other Penn State campuses. In January 2004, the College moved into a new 190,000 square foot building on the University Park campus. The building houses both the College of IST and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. To learn more about our structure, vision, mission, goals, faculty and students, please see http://ist.psu.edu.
We seek a candidate who will provide research leadership as our College moves forward in its second decade of existence. We have faculty strengths in: (1) computational informatics and artificial intelligence; (2) human computer interaction and cognitive studies; (3) information systems development/enterprise architecture; (4) security and informatics; and (5) social policy, economics and informatics. As an interdisciplinary faculty we collaborate on problems of national significance. We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated research leadership in cutting edge problem areas such as infrastructure and internet security and privacy, innovation in web search, health informatics, network science, social media, and educational technology. The successful candidate will have a well defined and sustained record of funded research and accomplishments. However, we will not limit our search to specific research areas or problems.
Applications from those who seek to be a part of a vibrant, civil and diverse academic community and who do research and teaching in any of the information and technology sciences are welcome. Qualified candidates are invited to send a cover letter with their research vision, their curriculum vita, as well as names and email addresses of four persons who will write letters of recommendation to chairsearch@ist.psu.edu. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.
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