Richard Dean Allen

Background

Allen, Richard Dean was born on September 20, 1935 in Dallas Center, Iowa, United States. Son of Deane Curtis and Lemira Inez (Packard) Allen.

Education

Student, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, 1953-1955; AB, Greenville (Illinois) College, 1957; Master of Science, University of Illinois, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1964.

Career

Instructor, Greenville College, 1960-1961; postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1965; lecturer, director Electron Microscope Svc. Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-1969; assistant professor, Messiah College, 1965-1968; associate professor microbiology, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1969-1975; professor, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, since 1975; member graduate faculty department tropical medicine, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, since 1977; director biological electron microscope facility, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, since 1985; member graduate faculty cell, molecular and Neuroscience, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, since 1988. Visiting professor U. Colorado, Boulder, 1975-1976.

Achievements

• Richard Dean Allen has been listed as a noteworthy Cell biology educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Society Protozoologists (president 1981-1982, Hutner prize 1978), American Society for Cell Biology, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Marilyn Grace Switzer, June 28, 1958 (deceased June 1987). Children: Lorna Marie Allen Wilfong, Steven Richard, William Scott.

Father:

Deane Curtis Allen

Mother:

Lemira Inez (Packard) Allen

Spouse:

Marilyn Grace Switzer

child:

Lorna Marie Allen Wilfong Allen

child:

William Scott Allen

child:

Steven Richard Allen