The University has appointed biology professor Allan Smits as associate dean of sciences and Renée Tursi as associate dean of humanities and social sciences.
Both positions are in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Smits previously was chairman of biological sciences at Quinnipiac. He joined the University in 1996 and before that taught and conducted research at the University of Texas at Arlington for eight years.
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Smits earned a doctorate in physiology from the University of Kansas in 1984 and completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in pulmonary research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in biology from California State University.
Smits received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Service to Students in 2005.
Tursi previously was assistant dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. She joined Quinnipiac in 2004. She was an assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina from 2000 to 2004.
Tursi earned a doctorate in 2000 and a master's degree in 1994 in English, both from Columbia University in New York City. She earned her bachelor's degree in communications from Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. Tursi also did preparatory training in piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.