XV.B.3   Senior Research Scientist/Scholar

This appointment is appropriate for persons of high professional attainment, outstanding ability, and critical importance to a major research program. The term of appointment in this rank may be up to five years, conditional upon the availability of salary support, and is renewable in successive terms of up to five years, conditional upon the availability of salary support. Nominations for this rank are submitted for approval by the department chair and sent to the appropriate appointments committee. In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences these appointments are reviewed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee; in the School of Medicine, by the Term Appointments and Promotions Committee. Procedures in the other professional schools are described in the relevant portions of Sections V-XIV. For senior research scientists who have served at least five years at that rank, non-reappointment for reasons not relating to the absence of salary support requires one year's notice.