1991 -- M.A. in Zoology, University of Montana (Missoula, MT), Thesis topic: Red Squirrel Cache Sites and Cache Pattern in Pattee Canyon, Montana
1986 -- B.S., The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA), Research topic: Sarcomere Length in the Fifth Periopod of Callianassa gigas
2005 to present --
Associate
Professor, Dept. of Biology,
1998 to 2005 --
Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Biology,
1996 to 1998 -- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Santa Barbara/National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
1993 to 1996 -- Teaching Assistant, Div. of Biology, Kansas State University
1994 -- Instructor, Kansas State University Continuing Education
1991 to 93 -- Research Assistant I, Montana State University
1989 to 91 (summers) -- Science Team Leader/Anatomy Instructor, University of Montana Upward Bound
1990 to 91 -- Assistant in Toxicology, State of Montana, Div. of Forensic Science
1986 to 89 -- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Zoology, The University of Montana
Burton, R. S. 1998. Attributes of red squirrel caches in a non-serotinous conifer forest. Northwestern Naturalist, 79:108-112.
Paden, C. M., X. Zhou, J. A. Watt, R. Burton, J. Pickett, and M. M. Oblinger 1995. Coordinated upregulation of aI- and bII-tubulin mRNAs during collateral axonal sprouting of central peptidergic neurons. Journal of Neuroscience Research 42:402-412.
Paden, C. M., Xinrong Zhou, John A. Watt, Rebecca Burton, Judith Pickett, and Monica M. Oblinger 1995. Distribution of growth-associated Class I a-tubulin and class II b-tubulin mRNAs in adult rat brain. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 362:368-384.
March, 2005 –Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education: Creating Seamless P-16 Education in Wisconsin: Examples of Success in the Midwest
May, 2004 -- Delaware Valley College: Implementing Outcome Assessments (with D. Lieberman)
July, 2003 -- Freodtert Memorial Hospital Beginning Manager Training Series: Problem Solving Parts 1 and 2
August, 2002 -- Audubon Middle School Faculty: Using Inquiry to Teach Science (with L. Truchan)
April, 2002 -- Freodtert Memorial Hospital Intermediate Manager Training Series: Problem Solving
February, 2002 -- U. of Denver: Teaching to elicit higher levels of thinking: Self assessment (with L. Ehley and D. Leister)
August, 2001 -- Gilmour Academy: From institutional outcomes to effective student assessment (with D. Leister)
March, 2000 -- Bellarmine College Guarnaschelli Lecture Series: Seminars in Assessment (with M. Diez)
April, 2000 -- U. of Wisconsin-Whitewater: Food Management by Eastern Woodrats: Behavior and Physiology
November, 2004 -- National Council for Teachers of Mathematics: Chocolate: An Integrated Unit in Math and Science (with G. M. Burton)
June, 2003 -- American Association of Higher Education: Teaching and Assessing Problem Solving: How students learn to do it (with J. Abromeit & Students)
August, 2002 -- Ecological Society of America: Institutional Transformation of Curriculum: What does it take?
June, 2001 -- American Society of Mammalogists: Spatial Considerations in Translocation Efforts: Identifying Optimal Configuration of Artificial Dens for Endangered Woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes riparia)
August, 2000 -- Ecological Society of America: The mock EIS: A problem-based learning activity
June, 1998 -- American Society of Mammalogists: Immune challenge affects torpor duration in Mesocricetus brandti
October, 1997 -- UCSB EEMB Seminar: Woodrat Energy Management: Fasting and Immunosuppression
August, 1996 -- Animal Behavior Society: Food rationing by the eastern woodrat
March, 1996 -- Kansas Academy of Sciences: Food rationing by the eastern woodrat
February, 1996 -- KSU Student Research Forum: Food rationing by the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana)
February, 1995 -- KSU Student Research Forum: Assessing immunological function in the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana)
April, 1991 -- Montana Wildlife Society Nongame Symposium: Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) cache sites and cache pattern in Pattee Canyon, Montana
April, 1989 -- Montana Wildlife Society Nongame Symposium: Identifying Montana chipmunks