Neal Smatresk
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| 16th President of the University of North Texas |
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Assumed office February 3, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Veldon Lane Rawlins, PhD |
| 9th President of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
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In office August 6, 2009 – January 2014 |
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| Preceded by | David Brian Ashley, PhD |
| Succeeded by | Leonard Michael Jessup, PhD |
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July 9, 1951 New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Deborah Ann (née Hoddick) (married for thirty-eight years) |
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Gettysburg, BA (1973) Buffalo, SUNY MA (1978) UT Austin, PhD (1980) Penn, post doc |
| Website | president |
Neal Joseph Smatresk, PhD (pronounced SMAH-tresk; born July 9, 1951 in New York), is an American academic research biologist, physiologist, and university president, who currently, as of February 15, 2017, is in his fourth year as the 16th President of the 126-year-old University of North Texas. Smatresk had previously served as President of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a role he had held since August 6, 2009. At age sixty-five, Smatresk is in his thirty-fifth year as an academician in higher education ... fifty-four percent of his life. Twenty-five of those years have been spent in Texas.
From 2004 to 2007, Smatresk served at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (aka Chief Academic Officer). From 2007 to 2009, Smatresk served at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as Executive Vice President and Provost. Then on July 10, 2009, Smatresk stepped-in as Acting President, and on August 6, 2009, he became President. Smatresk has been President of the University of North Texas since February 3, 2014.
In 1979, Smatresk participated in a research expedition of alpha helix in Micronesia under the auspices of the National Science Foundation. From 1980 to 1982, Smatresk was a National Institutes of Health trainee at University Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. From 1982 to 2004, he served on the faculty at The University of Texas at Arlington — from 1982 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor of Biology, from 1988 to 1994, he was Associate Professor of Biology, from 1994 to 1998, he was Chairman of the Biology Department, and from 1998 to 2004, he was Dean of Science. While at UT Arlington, Smatresk chiefly researched how respiratory neurobiology of vertebrates changes during the evolutionary transition from aquatic breathing to aerial breathing.
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