Dr. Dana (Dan) R. Elliott

EDUCATION:

William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, BA in Biology, 1967;

University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, MI, summer 1967;

Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO, MS in Biology, 1971;

University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, PhD in entomology, 1981

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Raytown, Missouri, Public Schools, 1967-68;

Kansas City, Missouri, Public Schools, 1971-72;

Liberty, Missouri, Public Schools, 1972-74;

Central Methodist University, Fayette, Missouri, 1974-to date

ARMED FORCES SERVICE: United States Army Artillery; August, 1968 to May, 1970; one year of service in South Vietnam; Sergeant E-5; Good Conduct Medal, Army Commendation Medal Bronze Star Medal first oak leaf cluster; honorable discharge

HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Beta, Beta, Beta; Omicron Delta Kappa; Missouri Academy of Science; Missouri Archaeological Society (Vice-President 1985-1991 and President 1991-1997); Geological Society of America; Paleontological Society of America

HONORS AND AWARDS: Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Teaching (1988-89, 1989-90 and 1993-94); Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; Hanson Award for Excellence in Teaching (1990-91, 1992-93 and 1994-95); Glen C. Riegal
Award for Outstanding Science Faculty (1992-93); United Methodist Church Award for Exemplary Teaching (2003-04); Carl and Eleanor Chapman Award for Outstanding Non-professional Archaeologist of Missouri (2004-05)

BIOGRAPHICAL RECOGNITION: Outstanding Young Men of America; Who’s Who in the Midwest; International Who’s Who in Education; Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology; American Men and Women of Science; Personalities of America; 500 Personalities of the World; International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement; International Book of Honor; Men of Achievement; Two Thousand Notable Americans; Community Leaders of America; Dictionary of International Biography; Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders of America; Who’s Who in American Education; Who’s Who Environmental Registry; Who’s Who Among American Teachers; Who’s Who in Science and Engineering; Who’s Who in America

PROFESSIONAL STATUS: Tenured, Full Professor of Biology and Curator of The Stephens Museum

M. S. THESIS: “A Study of the Comstock-Kellogg Glands and Analogous Tissues in Grass-Hoppers (Acrididae)”; Central Missouri State University

PhD. DISSERTATION: “Species Diversity of Leafhoppers and Vascular Plants Observed in Old Field Succession”; University of Missouri-Columbia

NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS AND MINICOURSES ATTENDED:

International Institute for Marine Science Studies, in association with Hofstra University, Marine Biology of Isla Mujeres, Mexico, October 26-29, 1984;

International Institute for Marine Science Studies, in association with the Minister of Fisheries of Mexico, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, February 27-March 2, 1987;

Marine Biology at the Institute of Marine Science on Roatan Island, Honduras, July 19-23, 1992;

International Meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeology, Kansas City, Missouri, January 6 and 7, 1993;

“Dinosaurs of the Como Bluffs area of Wyoming”, excavation and study of dinosaurs under the direction of Dr. Bob Bakker of Dinamation, Inc., July 23-29, 1994;

“Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs”, Chautauqua Course, Grand Junction, Colorado, June 8-14, 1998.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS:

Whitenack, L; D. R. Elliott and J. P. Brandenburg. 2002. A Case Study in Paleoecology from the Mississippian of Missouri, with a Focus on Chondrichthyan Teeth. Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science 36:7-10.

Blake, D. B. and D. R. Elliott. 2003. Ossicular Homologies, Systematics, and Phylogenetic Implications of Certain North American Carboniferous Asteroids (Echinodermata). The Journal of Paleontology 77(3):476-489.

D. R. Elliott. 2003. The Last Meal of a Mississippian Starfish. Oral presentation at the North-Central Regional Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Carbondale, Illinois. Published abstract: 2003 GSA Abstracts With Programs 35(2):16-5.

D. R. Elliott. 2006. Intelligent Design, Scientific Literacy, and Politicizing Science. Oral presentation at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England, July 26, 2006.

D. R. Elliott. 2007. Intelligent Design, Scientific Literacy, and Politicizing Science. Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table. 2(4):797-804.