Faculty Application Instructions

Submission Deadlines

The schedule for upcoming Membership Committee meetings is listed below.  Applications and supporting documents must be in Kristina Fern’s office at least 10 days before the meeting to allow time for distributing materials to the Committee.  Deadlines are strictly enforced. 

 Faculty Application Checklist

(All materials should be sent electronically to Kristina Fern at Kristina.N.Fern@uth.tmc.edu) 

1. Completed Application Form

2. Completed Additional Information Requested by GSBS Form 

3. Two letters of support from GSBS faculty members who have agreed to sponsor the candidate and been asked by the candidate to write letters on his/her behalf

• Sponsors may send e-mails directly to Kristina or give their letters to the candidate to submit along with the application materials
  
  
• The candidate’s chair may serve as one of the sponsors although that is not required

4. Curriculum vitae

5. Biosketch (no special format is required although normally the NIH format is used)

6. Digital photograph (ideally, your faculty photograph taken by your primary institution -- if you don’t have one, we’d like to have a high resolution digital photo that meets these specifications: .jpg format, at least 24 bit color, 1200 x 1800 pixels in size at 300 dpi)

7. Research description (in Word format -- not a PDF)

A description of your research is required. PhD students are required to complete three 10-week tutorials in three different labs; those experiences help them choose their advisors.  Tutorials may be offered by Regular Members; Associate Members are not eligible to offer tutorials. Your research description will be part of your faculty profile on the GSBS website.  

The format for research descriptions is as follows:

• A brief (~250 words) paragraph to describe your overall research program
  
  
• In your paragraph, be sure to include key words and phrases that would help students identify you when they’re searching for faculty in whose research they’re interested 
  
  
• Give examples of the types of projects students might work on and what they could learn while doing a tutorial in your laboratory (only for Regular Members)   
  
  
• Consider your audience: your profile will be read by students looking for advisors
  
  
• It will also include links to:
  
  
  • Your PubMed list of publications - please provide your PubMed bibliography link for your page
  • Additional sites of your choice (e.g. your lab website, your Program faculty page, your institutional faculty page, etc.)
    

If you have any questions - contact Kristina at 713.500.9857 or Kristina.N.Fern@uth.tmc.edu.