Minimum Qualifications
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ( UTRGV ) will emerge in 2015 by combining the existing University of Texas-Pan American ( UTPA ) and University of Texas at Brownsville ( UTB ), and adding a new school of medicine. This transformation will elevate our strong intellectual and research foundation in the environmental sciences into a self-sustained, world-class research enterprise integrating environmental, water, and energy components across the lower Rio Grande Valley. To further develop this program, the University of Texas System has implemented the Rio Grande Valley Initiative, which seeks to fill multiple open-rank faculty positions (Job Vacancy F13:14-066). This cluster of faculty, supported through the STAR (Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention) program, will focus on the ecologically and economically important water systems of the Rio Grande, the Lower Laguna Madre, and the Texas Gulf of Mexico coast. The subtropical Rio Grande Valley and delta region encompass a remarkable resource that includes coastal, climatological, geological, transborder political, and socioeconomic interfaces. We wish to establish a collaborative consortium of research-intensive faculty to model and understand the complex interactions between human elements and natural environments that affect population growth and available resources of this unique semi-tropical setting.
