Welcome to Pitzer-Scripps Science Department Faculty Search Page

The Department of Natural Sciences of Pitzer and Scripps Colleges is currently in its final year of a three-year transition from being the 3-college Keck Science Department. With our conversion to a two-college program, we will be adding additional tenure-line faculty to our department. 

The Scripps-Pitzer Science Department in the process of hiring two new tenure-track colleagues to join our department in the Fall of 2024. We hope this website will help you learn more about our outstanding program. 

Our current tenure-track searches are listed below along with links to the position descriptions and application details:

Biology – One position in cellular and molecular biology and one in animal evolution

Physics – One position in experimental physics

The Scripps-Pitzer Science Department will continue to build on the strengths of the former Keck Science Department while developing new initiatives that promote the missions of our two sponsoring colleges. The department will be opening its new, state-of-the art science building, the Nucleus, in the Fall of 2024. To learn more about the Nucleus, please follow this link. 

In addition to being a two-college partnership, our department is an interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Analysis, Neuroscience and Physics. We offer traditional majors in each of these fields along with many additional interdisciplinary majors. For a list of majors and more information about courses and requirements, please follow these links, Pitzer - https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/catalogs/ Scripps - https://catalog.scrippscollege.edu/

The faculty of the Pitzer-Scripps Science Department are successful teacher-scholars who value student-centered pedagogy and a hands-on approach to scientific research.

To meet our faculty, please go to the individual discipline links above. You can use the links on these pages to learn more about the research programs of individual faculty members.

To learn more about student research opportunities, please follow the research link at the top of this page.

Students are key members of our department. In addition to taking classes and doing research with us they serve as peer mentors, lab TAs, tutors, and DEI interns.  

To learn more about the goals, actions, and activities of our DEI committee, please follow this link, https://sites.google.com/view/keckdei/home