Faculty Cover Letter
Dr. Margaret Rice-Hurston
77 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
November 12, 200x
Dr. Dijou Babatunde
Physics Department Chairman
Claremont College
Claremont, CA 91711
Dear Dr. Babatunde:
I am happy to have the chance to apply for a faculty position at Claremont College. Enclosed is a copy of my current curriculum vitae, which includes a list of my publications
and my teaching and research proposals.
My teaching philosophy has developed through my experience as a high school chemistry
teacher, as a teaching assistant at Harvard University, and as a research supervisor at M.I.T. In my experience, the most successful classes are those in which there is a high level of student participation. I will try to encourage classroom participation by carefully organizing each lecture. With clear organization, students are more likely to believe they understand the framework of the class and will therefore be willing to ask questions about sections they do not understand. A second technique that I think will be useful is asking questions of individual students in order to create a more participatory
classroom environment. I would also be interested in developing new courses, particularly
courses for non-physicists that might focus on a single topic of current interest.
The research project I would like to pursue at Claremont involves coherent time-domain
teraherz spectroscopy of condensed matter systems. I think this is an excellent project for an undergraduate school because it explores exciting physics, it involves many useful
technologies, and it is unusual enough that there will be very little competition with larger
research groups.
I have asked that four letters of recommendation be sent to you on my behalf. The writers are James Smith, my thesis advisor; Marvin Gardner, my post-doctoral advisor; and Randall Miller and Daniel Golden, in whose courses I was a teaching assistant at Harvard University. Their addresses appear on the last page of my curriculum vitae.
I appreciate being considered for your faculty position. Please let me know if I can provide
you with any additional information to support my application.
Sincerely,
Dr. Margaret Rice-Hurston
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