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
1981 to 90 (summers) – Girl Scout camp staff and trainer, Utah Girl Scout Council
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.
August, 2010 – Carmen High School: Problem Solving (with M. Czarnik)
January, 2010 -- Waterford High School: Using rubrics effectively (with M. Czarnik)
December, 2009 -- Lemoyne-Owen College: Transforming the Educational Environment at LeMoyne-Owen College (with M. Czarnik)
November, 2009 -- Waterford High School: Assessing student learning (with M. Czarnik)
August, 2009 -- Olive-Harvey College: Outcomes and Assessment (with M. Czarnik)
January, 2006-–Fairmont College: Teaching and Assessing Higher Thinking Skills (with A. van Heerden. & J. Moore)
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
October, 2009 -- Association of College and University Biology Educators: Student working groups: Pitfalls and lifelines.
October, 2008 -- Association of College and University Biology Educators: Effective Learning Outcomes.
October, 2007 -- Association of College and University Biology Educators: Bridges or Barriers: An analysis of logodiversity in animal behavior textbooks.
October, 2005 -- National Council for Teachers of Mathematics: Chocolate: An Integrated Unit in Math and Science
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