Center for Scientific Studies

Books

• Calculus Set Free: Infinitesimals to the Rescue. Bryan Dawson. Oxford University Press (February 2022). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• Christian Worldview Handbook. Edited by David S. Dockery and Trevin Wax. B&H Publishing Group (November 2019). Union Contributor(s): Hunter Baker (Essay Author); Jimmy H. Davis (Essay Author); Steve R. Halla (Essay Author); Harry Lee Poe (Essay Author); Mary Anne Poe (Essay Author). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• Reformation 500: How the Greatest Revival Since Pentecost Continues to Shape the World Today. Edited by Ray Van Neste & J. Michael Garrett. B&H Academic (February 2017). Union Contributor(s): Ray Van Neste (Editor); J. Michael Garrett (Editor); Gavin Richardson (Chapter 1: "Reform our church all out of joint”: The Lollard Movement and the Medieval Origins of the Reformation"); Bradley G. Green (Chapter 5: "An introduction through which we are prepared for faith in the gospel…: Augustine, Calvin & the Authority of the Church & Holy Scripture"); Justin D. Barnard (Chapter 6: "'Comfortable Words': Reforming the Lord's Supper"); Harry Lee Poe (Chapter 7: "The Primacy of Preaching in the English Reformation"); John T. Netland (Chapter 9: "The Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction: Reformation Themes in 19th Century English Novels"); Hunter Baker (Chapter 14: "Martin Luther and the Question of Political Quietism"); Jimmy H. Davis (Chapter 15: "The Impact of the Reformation upon the Flowering of Modern Science"); James A. Patterson (Chapter 2: "Anabaptist Kinship Revisited: Implications for Baptist Origins and Identity"); J. Henry Allen (Chapter 12: "The Historical Legacy of Luther"). Book Website | Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• Laboratory Studies in General Botany. Delmar Vander Zee, Jeff Ploegstra, Michael Schiebout. Independent (July 2016). Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• Green Chemistry Laboratory Manual for General Chemistry. Sally A. Henrie. CRC Press (March 2015). Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• From the Cloud of Witnesses: Founders Day Addresses at Union University. Edited by Ray Van Neste. BorderStone Press, LLC (February 2014). Union Contributor(s): James A. Patterson (Chapter II: J.R. Graves, Union University, Baptist Identity); Jimmy H. Davis (Chapter IV: Union's Science Heritage); Ray Van Neste (Editor; Introduction; Chapter III: Charles Bray Williams and Biblical Studies at Union University). Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education. Edited by David S. Dockery. B&H Academic (May 2012). Union Contributor(s): Thomas R. Rosebrough (Chapter: "Faith and Transformational Teaching"); Ralph Leverett (Chapter: "Faith and Transformational Teaching"); Gene Fant (Chapter: "The Heartbeat of Christian Higher Education: The Core Curriculum"); Harry Lee Poe (Chapter: "The Gospel, Worldview, and Christian Higher Education"); Gregory Alan Thornbury (Chapter: "Biblical and Theological Studies in the Christian University"); Taylor Worley (Chapter: "The Study of Philosophy"); John T. Netland (Chapter: "Beauty, Meaning, and Power: Bearing Witness in the Profession of Words"); Scott Huelin (Chapter: "On Language and Interpretation"); James A. Patterson (Chapter: "The Study of History"); Hunter Baker (Chapter: "The Study of Political Philosophy at the Christian University"); Roman R. Williams (Chapter: "An Invitation to Sociology"); Steve R. Halla (Chapter: "Christianity and the Arts"); Christopher W. Mathews (Chapter: "Music Education from a Christian Perspective"); Mark Bolyard (Chapter: "A Christian in the Sciences"); Jimmy H. Davis (Chapter: "Science, Theology, and the Search for the Historical Adam"); Jeannette Russ (Chapter: "Christian Scholarship in Math, Physics, and Engineering"); E. Blake Watkins (Chapter: "The Study of Health Care at the Christian University"); Mary Anne Poe (Chapter: "Social Work and Counseling in the Christian Intellectual Tradition"); Emily Lean (Chapter: "The Study of Business at the Christian University"); Kimberly C. Thornbury (Chapter: "Student Life: Thinking Biblically about Vocatio and Community"); C. Ben Mitchell (Chapter: "Engaging the Culture and the Academy"). Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History. Harry Lee Poe and Jimmy H. Davis. IVP Academic (February 2012). Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  
• Supplemental Mathematics for the Curious: Number Theory. Bryan Dawson. Royal Fireworks (January 2009). Buy at Amazon.com or Google Products | Find in Google Scholar or Nearby Library
  
  

Articles

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• "Hyperreal differentiation with an idempotent ultrafilter," Journal of Logic & Analysis. (December 2024) by Bryan Dawson (with Samuel Allen Alexander)
• "Six in one: cryptic species and a new host record for Olixon Cameron (Rhopalosomatidae, Hymenoptera) revealed by DNA barcoding," Journal of Hymenoptera Research. (May 2024) by Jeremy Blaschke (with Allaina L. Armstrong, Jayme E. Sones, Volker Lohrmann, Paul D. N. Hebert, Dan H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs)
• "Using DNA barcoding to identify high-priority taxa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park," Environmental Entomology. (May 2024) by Jeremy Blaschke (with Emerie Landers, Brandon Claridge, Will Kuhn, Victoria Seymour, Hettie Peek, Scout Fluet, Jake Ramgren, Jake Phelps, Brayden Paulk, Lydia Cordner)
• "Production of secondary metabolites in regenerated Southern wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum L.) under various experimental conditions," In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant. (September 2023) by Mark Bolyard, Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Adna Alihodzic)
• "Production of secondary metabolites in regenerated Southern wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum L.) under various experimental conditions," In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant. (September 2023) by Mark Bolyard, Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Adna Alihodzic)
• "Production of secondary metabolites in regenerated Southern wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum L.) under various experimental conditions," In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant. (September 2023) by Mark Bolyard, Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Adna Alihodzic)
• "Biofilm and Cancer: Interactions and Future Directions for Cancer Therapy," International Journal of Molecular Sciences. (August 2023) by Esther Choi (with Ben Murray and Sunga Choi)
• "Detecting Trends in Abundance and Distribution of Seagrasses in Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida," Gulf and Caribbean Research. (June 2023) by James Kerfoot and Michael H. Schiebout (with Samantha N. Jones and Beth Orlando)
• "Detecting Trends in Abundance and Distribution of Seagrasses in Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida," Gulf and Caribbean Research. (June 2023) by James Kerfoot and Michael H. Schiebout (with Samantha N. Jones and Beth Orlando)
• "First record of phytomyxid infection of the non-native seagrass Halophila stipulacea in Puerto Rico," Botanica Marina. (February 2023) by Michael H. Schiebout (with James E. Kaldy, Cayla Sullivan, Angel Dieppa, Ivelisse Cappielo Cosme, and Marco Orizondo Lugo)
• "Anti-biofilm activity of Pseudomonas fluorescens culture supernatants on biofilm formation of Staphylococcus epidermidis 1457," BMC Research Notes. (December 2022) by Esther Choi (with Bethany Wells, Gabrielle Mirabella, Emilee Atkins and Sunga Choi)
• "APE1/Ref-1 with reducing activity induces mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition in TNF-a-stimulated breast cancer cells," Integrative Cancer Science and Therapeutics. (August 2022) by Esther Choi (with Sunga Choi, Ki Mo Kim)
• "Dual Function of Secreted APE1/Ref-1 in TNBC Tumorigenesis: An Apoptotic Initiator and a Regulator of Chronic Inflammatory Signaling," International Journal of Molecular Sciences. (August 2022) by Esther Choi (with Sunga Choi, Yu-Ran Lee,Ki-Mo Kim, Byeong-Hwa Jeon)
• "Northward expansion leads to cold tolerance? Investigating thermal adaptation of the non-native pike killifish (Belonesox belizanus) in Florida," Environmental Biology of Fishes. (April 2022) by James Kerfoot
• "Dream, a Train, and Three Binary Sequences," Math Horizons. (February 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "Parasite Soup: Faith and Science in the History of Parasitology," Journal of Religion & Science. (January 2022) by Jeremy Blaschke
• "Influence of Soil Saturation on Survival and Growth of Bottomland Oaks Six and Fourteen Years after Planting," Southeastern Naturalist. (June 2021) by Michael H. Schiebout and James Kerfoot (with David C. Mercker and Joshua S. Bowden)
• "Influence of Soil Saturation on Survival and Growth of Bottomland Oaks Six and Fourteen Years after Planting," Southeastern Naturalist. (June 2021) by Michael H. Schiebout and James Kerfoot (with David C. Mercker and Joshua S. Bowden)
• "The Lake Wobegon Paradox," The Mathematical Intelligencer. (December 2020) by Bryan Dawson
• "†Cretolixon – a remarkable new genus of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Rhopalosomatidae) from chemically tested, mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber," Fossil Record. (December 2020) by Jeremy Blaschke (with Lohrmann, V., Zhang, Q., Michalik, P., Müller, P., Jeanneau, L., and Perrichot, V.)
• "Application of Pigments to Squirrel Legs at Various Stages of the Plastination Process," Journal of Plastination. (December 2020) by Mark Bolyard, James A. Huggins and Robert Wamble (with R. Lewis)
• "Application of Pigments to Squirrel Legs at Various Stages of the Plastination Process," Journal of Plastination. (December 2020) by Mark Bolyard, James A. Huggins and Robert Wamble (with R. Lewis)
• "Vegetation Classification Exercise for the Pawnee National Grasslands, USA," Vegetation Classification and Survey 1. (November 2020) by Michael H. Schiebout (with Franklin SB, Šibik J)

Non-Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• "Mathematics & Faith: A Path for Integration," Journal of the Union Faculty Forum. (December 2023) by Matt Lunsford
• "A Christian Mathematician's Apology," Journal of the Union Faculty Forum. (January 2021) by Matt Lunsford

Presentations

• "Calculus with Infinitesimals: Simplifying Computations and Improving Understanding Using the Approximation Relation" at Joint Mathematics Meetings (Indigenous Voices in Mathematics session) in Seattle, WA (January 2025) by Bryan Dawson
• "Teaching Calculus using Infinitesimals" at Preconference Workshop (Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences) in Sioux Center, IA (May 2024) by Bryan Dawson
• "Approximating the Master: Reconciling Euler's Power Rule Proof with Modern Infinitesimal Analysis" at 24th Biennial Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences in Sioux Center, IA (May 2024) by Bryan Dawson
• "Solvability by Irreducible Radicals over Finite Fields" at Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the MAA in Knoxville, TN (March 2024) by Matt Lunsford
• "Chromatographic Analysis of Common Analgesic Compounds Using TLC, LC, and HPLC" at 20th Annual Union University Scholarship Symposium in Jackson, TN (April 2023) by Jimmy H. Davis (with Elizabeth Smith)
• "Development of a Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SalenH₂ and Metal(salen) Undergraduate Experiment" at American Chemical Society National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN (March 2023) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Breanna Johnson)
• "Green Poly(L-lactic acid) Polymer Synthesis Developed for Use in an Organic Chemistry Experiment" at American Chemical Society National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN (March 2023) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Naomi Dalton and Colin Coleman)
• "Development of a Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SalenH₂ and Metal(salen) Undergraduate Experiment" at American Chemical Society National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN (March 2023) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Breanna Johnson)
• "Green Poly(L-lactic acid) Polymer Synthesis Developed for Use in an Organic Chemistry Experiment" at American Chemical Society National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN (March 2023) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Naomi Dalton and Colin Coleman)
• "Communication Faith to Collegiate Non-Major Biology and Chemistry Students" at The 22^nd Christianity and the Academy Conference (February 2023) by Jimmy H. Davis (with Christine Menzel)
• "JMM Workshop on Exploring the Teaching of Calculus Using Infinitesimals: Hands-on Practice in Issues Related to Curriculum Design" at Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA (January 2023) by Bryan Dawson
• "A Widely Applicable Nonstandard Test for Series Convergence" at PRIMA Congress 2022, Indigenous Mathematical Scientists special session in Vancouver, BC, Canada (December 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "A Tale of Four Integrals" at Colloquium at the University of North Alabama in Florence, AL (October 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "A Tale of Four Integrals" at Colloquium at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN (October 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "A Tale of Four Integrals" at Colloquium at Murray State University in Murray, KY (October 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "Exploring the Teaching of Calculus Using Infinitesimals: Hands-on Practice in Issues Related to Curriculum Design" at Colloquium at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN (September 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "Development of a Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SalenH₂ and Co(salen) Undergraduate Experiment." at Biennial Vonference on Chemical Educatino (BCCE) in West Lafayette, IN (July 2022) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Breanna Johnson)
• "Development of a Poly(L-lactic acid) Nylon 6-6 Polymer Synthesis Experiment for Organic Chemistry" at Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) in West Lafayette, IN (July 2022) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Colin Coleman)
• "Communication Faith to Collegiate Non-Major Biology and Chemistry Students" at American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Annual Meeting at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA (July 2022) by Jimmy H. Davis (with Christine Menzel)
• "Development of a Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SalenH₂ and Co(salen) Undergraduate Experiment." at Biennial Vonference on Chemical Educatino (BCCE) in West Lafayette, IN (July 2022) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Breanna Johnson)
• "Development of a Poly(L-lactic acid) Nylon 6-6 Polymer Synthesis Experiment for Organic Chemistry" at Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) in West Lafayette, IN (July 2022) by Jimmy H. Davis and Sally A. Henrie (with Colin Coleman)
• "A Tale of Two Mentors: G. H. Hardy and C. S. Lewis" at Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences in Azusa, CA (June 2022) by Matt Lunsford
• "The Nearly Universal, Easy-to-use Level Comparison Test for Series" at 23rd Biennial Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences in Azusa, CA (June 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "Big-oh Notations, Elections, and Hyperreal Numbers" at 23rd Biennial Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences in Azusa, CA (June 2022) by Bryan Dawson (with Samuel Allen Alexander)
• "Analysis of Secondary Metabolites in Southern Wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum)" at 19^th Annual Union University Scholarship Symposium in Jackson, TN (April 2022) by Mark Bolyard and Jimmy H. Davis (with Adna Alihodzic)
• "Analysis of Secondary Metabolites in Southern Wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum)" at 19^th Annual Union University Scholarship Symposium in Jackson, TN (April 2022) by Mark Bolyard and Jimmy H. Davis (with Adna Alihodzic)
• "The Nearly Universal, Easy-to-Use Level Comparison Test for Series" at Mathematical Association of America Southeaster Section Centennial Section Meeting in Mount Berry, GA (March 2022) by Bryan Dawson
• "The Gospel and Discomfort: Defining Racism" at Community Workshop, Union University in Jackson, TN (September 2021) by Faith Zamamiri-Davis
• "Zebrafish as Research Models" at Guest Presentation for Future Leaders of STEM, John P. Freeman K-8 Optional School in Memphis, TN (April 2021) by Faith Zamamiri-Davis
• "The Hyperreal Numbers" at KME 43rd Biennial National Convention (April 2021) by Bryan Dawson
• "Potential Catalysts for Polymerization of Phenols" at Union University Scholarship Symposium 2021 in Jackson, TN (April 2021) by Jimmy H. Davis (with Jacob Greene)
• "Potential Models of a Biochemical Catalyst" at Union University Scholarship Symposium 2021 in Jackson, TN (April 2021) by Jimmy H. Davis (with Paige Bogard)
• "Scientific Ethics During a Pandemic" at Keynote Address – National Chemistry Week – Union University in Jackson, TN (October 2020) by Jimmy H. Davis

Awards

• Newell Innovative Teaching Award (May 2021) Jeremy Blaschke
• Carla D. Sanderson Faculty of the Year Award (May 2021) Jeremy Blaschke