Short bio of Ted Burk
Ted Burk grew up in a small town near Topeka and attended the University of Kansas, graduating in 1974 with a B.A. in Biology. He was a graduate student at New College of the University of Oxford as a Danforth Fellow and a Rhodes Scholar, where he earned a D. Phil. in Zoology in 1979 under the supervision of the well-known evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. After a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida, he joined the Creighton Biology Department in 1982, becoming Professor of Biology in 1996. He was Chair of the Biology Department from 1990 to 2000 and is currently acting Chair of the Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences Department. He has received both the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the College's Outstanding Advisor Award. At Creighton, he teaches General Biology, Animal Behavior, Entomology, and a non-major's course on Charles Darwin's life and impact. His research interests are in behavioral and conservation biology of insects; he has authored 27 papers and book chapters and is co-author of the textbook Biology of Animal Behavior