| When: | Open |
| Stipend: | The stipend for this half-time research appointment is $16,000 per year with tuition waiver. |
| Research: | The applicant should have interests in quantitative and molecular genetics and the interface of these disciplines in an applied breeding program. |
| Deadline: | Open |
| Application: | Interested persons
should send
the following information to:
Dudley Huber a cover letter,
curriculum
vitae, three
references, GRE
scores, and a copy of
their college
transcripts. |
| Environment: | The University of
Florida campus
is located in Gainesville in the north central portion of
the state and has some 49,000 students in residence. The
University
of Florida is one
of
only 17 public land-grant universities which are members of the
prestigious Association
of American
Universities.
In 1996, Gainesville, Florida was voted by Money magazine
as the number one city in America in which to live.
The Cooperative Forest
Genetics
Research Program (CFGRP) founded in November of 1953and was
one the first university/industry cooperative research program.
Our mission is to develop geneticall-improved varieties of southern
pines for refprestation of harvested timberlants in the lower coastal
plain of the southeastern United States. Also resident at the School of
Forest Resources
and Conservation is the
Forest Biology Research
Cooperative (FBRC) whose mission is to optimize the productivity,
health and sustainability of intensively managed southern pine forest
ecosystems. |