How many published papers do you need? Do you need teaching experience? How much?
How do you network to get your name out there?
Do you need a postdoc? Does it matter where? Or is with whom more important?
Can you just do what your PhD advisor does?

Please join us for a conversation with EARTH alumni who have served as Department Chair at Research-1 (R1) universities and led the search for and hiring of several dozen early career faculty.

*Please note: this event is geared towards graduate students, but all are welcome!

Tracy Frank runs a research and teaching program focused on carbonate sedimentology and petrography, low temperature geochemistry, paleoclimate, and paleoceanography with a special interest in mass extinctions. She spent two years at Penn State as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to her first faculty position at the University of Queensland in Australia. She then moved to the University of Nebraska where she was Rosowski Professor and Chair. Tracy is now department chair at the University of Connecticut. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland in 2019.

John Geissman runs a research and teaching program focused on the structural evolution of the Basin and Range Province, Triassic paleomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau, and deformation in the Himalaya. John spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before starting his faculty career at the Colorado School of Mines. He then moved to the University of New Mexico and was department chair at the University of Texas at Dallas. John served as President of the Geological Society of America in 2011-2012 and in various advisory roles for the National Science Foundation.