The bidding is particularly fierce in such fields as ceramics, computers, chemical engineering and all aspects of biotechnology. And although higher salaries alone are rarely sufficient to trigger such a move, the new buildings and equipment that are made possible with such special appropriations offer a powerful lure to some faculty.
Edward Arnold rejected offers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania to accept a position of assistant professor at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), a unit ofRutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. "It's exciting to be part of a nucleus of a new center and to help in deciding how things will progress," said Arnold, a structural biologist. "I am the third of 18 new faculty to be recruited, and I can help shape further hiring."
The absence of formal teaching duties was another inducement, Arnold said. The state-supported CABM ...
