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As the world population grows, proactive and innovative strategies to efficiently produce high quality animal protein in a sustainable way are essential. Sustainability is a tripartite challenge that includes key environmental, economic, and social considerations. Adaptability and resilience to environmental challenges, such as rising temperatures, water shortages, weather extremes, and strained ecosystems will be critical in feeding a growing global population while confronting climate change. Adaptability and resilience to management challenges, such as shortages of skilled labor, disruptions in supply chains, changes in consumer preferences, and revisions to regulatory policies, will also be important in the coming decades.
To help address these issues, the Dairy Innovation Hub seeks to fund a full time 9-month tenure-track faculty position to build an internationally recognized and extramurally funded research program that focuses on adaptive dairy cattle nutrition and an impactful teaching program. "Adaptive" refers to the ability of dairy calves, heifers, and cows to achieve and maintain optimal health and performance in the face of these and other unforeseen external challenges and in ways that are sustainable and efficient. The field of animal nutrition is evolving rapidly, in terms of the forages, concentrates, and alternative feedstuffs that can be used to produce milk and meat efficiently under varying environmental conditions and constraints, and in terms of our understanding of the interactions of nutrition with immunology, metabolic health, reproduction, longevity, behavior, and welfare. These factors contribute to maintaining the dairy industry's social license to operate by enhancing animal health and welfare while capitalizing on the ability of ruminants to consume and convert non-human-edible plants, industry byproducts, and food waste, into nourishing proteins to feed the human population. Consideration of the animal's entire lifespan, from fetal programming through calf rearing, heifer management, and mature cow health and performance, will be critical in addressing adaptability and resilience in a holistic manner. Broadly speaking, this individual will carry out impactful research, teaching, and outreach activities that, from a nutritional and interdisciplinary perspective, will allow dairy cattle and dairy farmers to achieve predictable quality and performance under unpredictable conditions.
This newly created position is supported by the Dairy Innovation Hub in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and carries a commitment to the three functions of research, instruction, outreach, as well as professional and university service as appropriate to the position and rank. The Hub is an exciting initiative at the three leading UW agricultural schools (UW- Madison, UW-Platteville, and UW-River Falls) to foster dairy research, education, and outreach in the priority areas of Stewarding Land and Water Resources, Ensuring Animal Health and Welfare, Growing Farm Businesses and Communities, and Enriching Human Health and Nutrition. The Assistant Professor will join a world-class university and a college with diverse expertise in agricultural and life sciences. The incumbent's tenure home will be the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty in the department, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center, and across campus. The Wisconsin dairy sector has a strong collaborative relationship with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is highly motivated to help explore and develop innovative solutions to the industry's challenges. As a Hub supported position, the faculty member will also have the opportunity to collaborate with other Hub researchers, pursue Hub funding opportunities, and participate in Hub programs. For more information on the Dairy Innovation Hub () and UW-Madison CALS Hub efforts () please visit the websites.
The Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences is committed to collaborative research, innovative instruction, and outreach to foster scientific discoveries, produce skilled leaders, and advance animal agriculture and sustainable food systems to enrich the lives of students, scientists, stakeholders, and society. Research expertise across disciplines contributes to core strengths in the areas of integrated dairy sciences, sustainable livestock production systems, and meat science and animal biologics. Diverse research facilities enable nearly all types of research, with on-campus facilities including the Dairy Cattle Center, Livestock Lab, and Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery (MSABD) Building all located within short walking distance of the research labs. A 600-cow dairy research facility, as well as beef, sheep, and swine research facilities, are located 30 minutes from campus (Arlington, WI), and a dairy heifer research unit 2 hours from campus (Marshfield, WI) and beef unit 1.5 hours from campus (Lancaster, WI) are also available. Collaborations across campus, the Dairy Innovation Hub, and with countless industry and stakeholder partners will result in leveraging expertise, farms, and laboratory facilities.
Additionally, the Department has a long-standing collaboration with the US Dairy Forage Research Center (USDFRC), a research center of the US Department of Agriculture devoted to the optimization of the use of forages in improving dairy cattle production and sustainability. Experts in soil chemistry, agronomy, dairy cattle genetics, dairy nutrition, and microbiology work on long-term, interdisciplinary research projects aimed at developing cost-effective solutions for US dairy farmers. The center is located on the UW-Madison campus and maintains research dairy herds at Prairie du Sac, WI and Marshfield, WI. This network of research, outreach and instruction units uniquely positions Wisconsin as a center of dairy stewardship innovation in the 21st Century.
Perform research, teaching, and outreach in an area of expertise in ways that are relevant to dairy agriculture and related fields.
Develop and carry out a vigorous extramurally-funded research program recognized at state-, national-, and international-levels for its innovative approaches to advancing dairy-related land and water stewardship. The candidate will work independently and within a collaborative research team to support the mission of the Dairy Innovation Hub.
Teach classes in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, which also contribute to college undergraduate and graduate programs. Teaching responsibilities will be commensurate with college expectations and consistent with the teaching loads of other departmental faculty.
Facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and collaborative efforts within the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and federal labs.
Contribute to outreach and service functions of the department, college, university, and professional societies. Outreach to diverse audiences will be central to this position. Moreover, consistent with the mission of the University of Wisconsin System, the candidate will be committed to service to the community, state, nation, and world for the benefit of all.
Contribute to programs aimed at increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the department, college, and university. Promote an inclusive and diverse climate within our campus and associated communities.
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
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Required
PhD in Animal or Dairy Sciences or related fields required by the start date of the position.
Post-doctoral experience preferred but not required. The successful candidates will have a record of or demonstrate potential for:
i) Securing extramural funding
ii) Publications in peer reviewed journals
iii) Graduate student training/mentoring
iv) Teaching and curriculum development
v) Contribution to the outreach and service functions of CALS and the Dairy Innovation Hub
All requirements must be met by the start date.
Full Time: 100%
It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.
Ongoing/Renewable
Anticipated Begin Date:AUGUST 19, 2024
Salary:Negotiable
ACADEMIC (9 months)
Benefit information at:
The UW-Madison College of Agricultural & Life Sciences is committed to maintaining and growing a culture that embraces diversity, inclusion, and equity, believing that these values are foundational elements of our excellence and fundamental components of a positive and enriching learning and working environments for all students, faculty, and staff. At CALS, we acknowledge that bias, prejudice, racism and hate have historically occurred in many forms that cause significant and lasting harm to members of our community. We commit to taking actions each day toward a college that is inclusive and welcoming to all. The Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences is committed to advancing diversity in all areas, including scholarship, instruction, and engagement.
UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
A criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring.
Apply online at "Jobs at UW" () under job number 279628. Applications must be received through the UW-Madison's online application system.
To begin the process, please click "Apply Now".
Applicants must upload the following information as a single PDF document:
1) Cover letter
2) Curriculum vitae
3) Statements of:
a. Research accomplishments and future goals (2-page limit)
b. Teaching and mentoring philosophy and experience (2-page limit)
4) Electronic reprints of one or two articles (pdfs) that are relevant to the position
5) Contact information for three references
For questions on the application process, contact Todd Schry () in CALS Human Resources. Direct all questions pertaining to the position to Luiz Ferraretto in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences ().
The deadline for assuring full consideration is September 1, 2023; however, the position will remain open, and applications may be considered until the position is filled.
Luiz Ferraretto
608-265-5352
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Assistant Professor(FA040)
Department(s):A07-COL OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES/ANIMAL & DAIRY SCIENCES
Employment Class:Faculty
Job Number:279628-FA
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
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