SUBJECT:	Search for the Interim Director of the Sustainability
	Solutions Institute (SSI)

The Search Committee for the Interim Director of the Sustainability Solutions Institute (SSI) is accepting nominations for the position of Interim SSI Director. The mission of SSI, a research program at UCSD, is to bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers from the campus and around the world to help solve key sustainability problems. Information on the Sustainability Solutions Institute may be found at:

http://ssi.ucsd.edu/esiportal/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Candidates must possess academic qualifications and hold a tenured senior level academic appointment at the University of California, San Diego.

Applications (CV and statement of interest) and nominations may be submitted, in confidence, by email to: Dean Robert Sullivan, Chair of the Search Committee (rssullivan@ucsd.edu). Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2010. The person selected will begin July 1, 2010 for a 3-year term. The University of California, San Diego is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

Search Committee members include Farooq Azam, SIO; Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; and Dean Robert Sullivan (Chair), Rady School of Management.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank Professor Paul Linden, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, for his outstanding service as the Founding Director of the SSI. I am also grateful to the members of the search committee for their assistance.

Arthur B. Ellis Vice Chancellor for Research