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2 Union Profile

4 For Discussion: What Does it Mean to be Human?

8 Union Graduates Lead the Way in Law School

12 Crucial Conversations Attract Top Thinkers 3 to Union

14 Union’s Commitment to Urban Education

16 Anesthesia and Patient Care: Union Nursing Strengths Resonate in Haiti

20 One Year, Three Top Honors at Union

28 Ensuring the Future with Innovative Programs

42 Study with the Authors

48 Going Places: Union’s Excellence-Driven World Travel

54 The Benefits of Rigorous Scientific Inquiry

60 Speakers

61 Faculty Scholarship For Discussion: What Does It Mean to be human? For Discussion: What Does it Mean to be H u m a n ?

he campus coffee house atmosphere is relaxed. TStudents study, visit and sip hot beverages. Seated around one table is a group things – such as the weather – because either find or help create a group like of faculty members in an ongoing we find the conversation about the this,” said Gruenke. “We don’t always discussion that began several months issues we’re talking about so interesting agree, but we can disagree charitably and before. The question they are answering and compelling. These are bright use those disagreements to sharpen our is short, but not simple: What does it people around the table, and I want to understanding of difficult questions.” 5 mean to be human? hear what they have to say.” “This question is so important and it The other members of the group has so many dimensions that we really share Mitchell’s commitment: all attend need an interdisciplinary approach to it weekly meetings consistently, even with a strong ethical component,” said during university breaks. This question is so C. Ben Mitchell, Graves Professor of The discussion group is made up of “important and it has Moral Philosophy at Union. Mitchell and Justin Barnard, Associate so many dimensions The group has talked about the nature Professor of Philosophy and Director that we really need of the human embryo to the ethics of of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for an interdisciplinary embryonic stem cell research, robotics, Intellectual Discipleship; Jay Bernheisel, approach to it with artificial intelligence, the relationship Assistant Professor of Engineering; a strong ethical For Discussion: between the body and the soul, the Mark Bolyard, Professor of Biology and nature of human consciousness, and Department Chair; Jennifer Gruenke, component. organ transplants. Associate Professor of Biology; Fonsie “It was started as a conversation Guilaran, Assistant Professor of Physics; What Does It Mean among a few of us who were interested and Micah Watson, Assistant Professor “Some of the most significant in collaborative interdisciplinary of Political Science and Director of the opportunities” and challenges that discussions, and it grew from there Center for Politics and Religion. we will face in the 21st century are to this group,” Mitchell said. “The “I’m halfway through my first year so complex that no single area of to be human? conversation seldom moves to other at Union, and I came here hoping to knowledge can lay legitimate claim to We are looking at how to “translate ethical reflections into public policy recommendations and asking to what extent Christian perspectives can be brought into public policy, because of our conviction that the Christian intellectual tradition does have something to offer culture. ” C. Ben Mitchell G r av e s P r o f e s s o r o f Moral Philoso p h y For Discussion: What Does it Mean to be H u m a n ?

possessing a corner on the whole truth,” the world? How do we bring those ideas said Barnard. into the marketplace of ideas?” “The landscape of higher education Out of the conversations have must change to meet this challenge,” come a couple of specific things, he said. “I view our group, in part, as including collaboration on a paper an incubator for the change needed. for presentation at a professional Difficult conversations across radically conference and a journal article with distinct disciplinary divides have public policy implications. immeasurable value in moving higher “We are looking at how to translate education in that direction.” ethical reflections into public policy Mitchell finds it helpful to understand recommendations and asking to what terminology and methodology across extent Christian perspectives can be disciplines, something this kind of group brought into public policy,” Mitchell makes possible. “Because we use different said, “because of our conviction that language to discuss our subjects and the Christian intellectual tradition does 7 interests, clarifying our terminology and have something to offer culture.” trying to come up with common language “The discussion also affects the is an important part of the process of classroom because it enriches our trying to understand one another from own lecturing and engagement in the the context of our discipline.” classroom and it deepens our respect “All of our questions focus on for our colleagues in their disciplines,” emerging concerns and are future- Mitchell said. oriented. We are exploring ways that “It’s so important in my life at emerging biotechnology challenges our Union; I can’t imagine getting to a understanding of what it means to be place where we can just stop.” human,” Mitchell said. “Can you really The group carefully selected a meeting upload human consciousness into a place that is popular with students. computer, as some people are suggesting “It’s important for students to see we ought? Is it 1) possible? 2) desirable? faculty across the disciplines getting What do we lose, and what do we gain if together,” Mitchell explained. we do that?” “Hopefully that will encourage them As engaging as the conversations are, that faculty can have these kinds of their words will not remain casually discussions, and also be a model that around the table in the coffee house. will encourage them to have these “What difference do our ideas make in kinds of conversations themselves.” C. Ben Mitchell G r av e s P r o f e s s o r o f Moral Philoso p h y Union Graduates lead the way in law school U n i o n G r a d u at e s L e a d the Way in L a w S c h o o l

hen Sean Evans is having a bad day, he has been known Wto shut his office door, settle back in his chair and open a small drawer in his desk.

Inside it are letters and printed skills, each of which he sees as vital to Lea points to individual faculty emails from former students who felt success in law school. members who helped him hone compelled to write Evans and tell him Union graduates are being accepted valuable academic skills. how well prepared they were as they at some of America’s top law schools: entered law school. University of Virginia, Northwestern, “Everyone has bad days,” said Evans. Vanderbilt, Emory and University of 9 “I go to my drawer of letters and Georgia are just a few examples. The small class remember that while it’s tough, it pays Not only are they accepted in these sizes also allowed off in the long run.” highly competitive environments— “ Evans, Associate Professor of Political they excel after they arrive. one-on-one attention Science and Department Chair, also Brian Lea majored in English literature and individualized serves as a primary adviser for Union’s and minored in political science while at comments. pre-law students. Union, and even found time to pitch on You cannot put a “We’re doing the kinds of things that the Bulldog baseball team. At Georgia, price on that kind help them to be successful,” said Evans. he graduated first in his law school class, “They’re smart when they come here, contributed to the law review and now of attention— and then I think we do a pretty good clerks for the Honorable Ed Carnes on I was a better law Union Graduates job of developing them.” the United States Court of Appeals for student for it. Evans favors political science and the Eleventh Circuit. economics as majors for pre-law students. “Each of my English teachers Union has a number of faculty members demanded excellence and precision from “The thesis project, with Gavin lead the way in those areas with J.D. degrees. students,” recalls Lea. “The small class Richardson” as my adviser, taught me to Evans teaches a constitutional law sizes also allowed one-on-one attention marshal a large amount of information class using the Socratic Method. He and individualized comments. You cannot and force it into a readable piece. pushes students to develop critical put a price on that kind of attention­— Those skills helped me publish twice in law school thinking, research and communication I was a better law student for it.” during law school,” said Lea. “Dr. We tend to produce students “who are well-rounded. There’s a liberal arts connection that’s there. It’s not preparing you to go to law school — it’s preparing you for a well-rounded life. ” Gene Fant D e a n , C o l l e g e o f A r t s a n d S c i e n c e s U n i o n G r a d u at e s L e a d the Way in L a w S c h o o l e a L r i a n B

Evans’ class on the presidency involved Scarborough at Vanderbilt, Jordan about the success of these students in projects that required formulation of a Scott at the University of Alabama law school. He said beyond America’s long-term strategy. Both of those skills on a full ride and Nathan Tilley at the shores such studies are seen as a natural are vital to law school and a successful University of Tennessee. preparation for many careers. post-scholastic life in the law.” “Those relationships are going to Fant predicts stories such as these Lea also commends Gene Fant, Dean create paths for other students to will become more common in the years 11 of the College of Arts and Sciences follow,” Watson said. ahead. Union’s new intercollegiate and a Professor of English, for helping “And that will create a line for us,” debate program has been highly students develop writing skills that are Watson said. “They’ll say, ‘OK, who successful and is likely to attract students useful in law school. Fant once served else do you have that might be coming interested in law and the humanities. as Assistant Director of the Mississippi up the line?’” At a time when many institutions are Institute for Law-Related Education. It is not uncommon to see high- moving away from a core curriculum, “Some places only teach analytical achieving Union graduates with Union’s emphasis on these basic, skills and don’t teach high-level reading backgrounds in economics, ethics and required courses could connect fields and writing, or the other way around,” philosophy excel in top law schools. such as theology, philosophy, political said Fant. “We’re really trying to do Jon Dockery, an economics major science, English, and history. That a merger of those things. Instead of and ethics minor at Union went on connectivity, Fant said, helps expand a putting things in silos we look at the to become a Wigmore Scholar at student’s worldview. Gene Fant D e a n , C o l l e g e o f A r t s a n d S c i e n c e s connections between psychology and Northwestern Law; Brody McMurtry “We tend to produce students who theology, for example. With the law and Russell Hilton, both Christian are well-rounded,” said Fant. “There’s a schools, that’s happened. I think we’re ethics majors, later completed liberal arts connection that’s there. It’s going to see more of that happening.” distinguished academic records at not preparing you to go to law school — Assistant Professor of Political the law schools of the University of it’s preparing you for a well-rounded life. Science Micah Watson cited three Virginia and Emory respectively. “That allows you to be very creative 2009 Union graduates who have School of Christian Studies Dean and inventive in your profession in gone on to top law schools: Alex Gregory Thornbury smiles when asked ways that many people are not.” Crucial Conversations Attract top thinkers to union C r u c i a l C onversations At t r a c t T o p T hinkers to U n i o n

icah Watson has the benefit of running a center whose Mmission is of immense interest to a large number of people. “Everyone’s interested in politics and The center has also sponsored have come from top-rated research religion,” Watson said. “Even if they’re other lectures from such scholars institutions like Princeton, Vanderbilt afraid that people are going to argue as Jeffry Morrison of Regent and the University of Chicago, while about it.” University, who spoke on “Religion others have come from excellent Watson, Assistant Professor of Political in the Constitutionalism of George liberal arts schools like Amherst. As Science, is Director of Union University’s Washington”; Michael Sugrue of Ave these professors have interacted with Center for Politics and Religion, which, Maria University, whose lecture was the Union students, they have left with over the past couple of years, has brought entitled, “Measure for Measure: The quite favorable impressions. highly regarded scholars to the Union Bible Contra Puritanical Christianity”; campus to address a variety of topics and David Michelson of the University and engage students with meaningful of Alabama, who discussed “The End of presentations and conversations. Christianity in Iraq?” And conversations, Watson said, The presence of such scholars are what the Center for Politics and regularly visiting the Union campus It’s going to open up Religion is all about. has multiple benefits, said Watson, “the imagination of 13 “I hope that the center is able to provide who joined Union’s faculty in 2007 some of our students focused areas of conversation where we following the completion of his Ph.D. at and help further can talk about important issues in a more Princeton University. an evangelical sustained and reflective way, and have a As Union’s students listen to these forum for those sorts of conversations that scholars speak and interact with them excellence in higher do happen in the dorm rooms and around on a personal level, they begin to think education. That has the dinner table,” he said. “Maybe I can do that,” Watson said. been there before, The keystone event for the center was “It’s going to open up the imagination but I think this is last year’s conference, “Making Men of some of our students and help further going to broaden Moral: The Public Square and the Role an evangelical excellence in higher and deepen it and of Moral Judgment.” Featuring Robert education,” he said. “That has been also prepare our Crucial Conversations P. George of Princeton University, Jean there before, but I think this is going to Bethke Elshtain of the University of broaden and deepen it, and also prepare students to impact Chicago, David Novak of the University our students to impact a wider segment a wider segment of of Toronto, Christopher Tollefsen of the of the society when they get out into it.” the society when Attract top University of South Carolina and other There is another benefit as well: in they get out into it. prominent scholars, the conference was addition to exposing Union students to designed to honor the work and thought a wide array of thinkers, hosting them of George on the 15th anniversary of his on campus introduces them to Union’s thinkers to union Making Men Moral book. students. Some of the visiting scholars ” Union’s Commitment to Urban Education U n i o n ’ s C o mm i t m e n t t o U r b a n e D u c at i o n

Teachers love seeing their students “get it.” For Danny Song, a 2009 Union willing to go into places of sacrifice and have faced the challenges of discipline, University graduate and 11th grade difficulty, because a teacher can’t pray or poor reading and writing skills, and English teacher in the heart of Memphis, read the Bible in math class. a worldview framed by the students’ the reward is worth the daily challenges “However, urban education – being a personal difficulties. and struggles of being an urban teacher. great math teacher – is a valid response “Their worldview is shaped really “When you see in their eyes that they to the gospel,” said Montague. by hopelessness. I’ve heard it said that understand, there’s no feeling like it,” His goal for this program is long- the definition of poverty is not lack of he said. term retention of great teachers in the resources, but a lack of hope,” said Song. Song is among 23 resident students in Memphis urban schools. the pioneer class of Union’s partnership “It’s harder to share Jesus this way, 15 with the Master Teacher Residency without using words,” said Song. “I program. Another Union graduate, struggled with this for a long time. When you see in Emily Vasser (’02), is also part of the What is the point of teaching them their eyes that they 12-month cohort. English if their souls are lost? I’ve found “ The residency program integrates in the Bible that God is concerned understand, there’s Union master’s degree coursework about social justice and freeing earthly no feeling like it. with extensive Memphis classroom bondage. He’s at work in that too.” experience. Each resident is paired with Jennifer Grove, Union University a mentor-teacher in the content area Assistant Dean of Education in “We understand that they’re in hard for four days per week while earning a Germantown, explained that although situations,” but we cannot let that be Master of Arts in Education degree and MTR residents are helping students an excuse for them. The world is not Union’s teacher licensure in elementary academically, they also want them to going to let that be an excuse for them; or secondary education. experience God’s love and to know college admissions won’t excuse them. The MTR residents, in turn, commit to that the teachers care completely about The ACT score is very unforgiving.” teaching in the Memphis schools for three them, not just their ACT scores or the “If we can take these kids from being Commitment to years after graduation from the program. end-of-the-year high stakes exams. bonded to poverty and hopelessness, David Montague, director of the MTR “What I would ask people to pray for maybe someday they’ll look back and program, said that the idea of going is for the Holy Spirit to open the kids’ say, ‘a teacher came into my life, into my into urban education is sometimes not eyes to see Christ in me,” Song said. world, and gave me freedom, and now I Urban Education particularly attractive, even to Christians In the classroom, Song and others can see clearly why he was there.’” Anesthesia and Patient Care: Union Nursing Strengths Resonate in Haiti A nesthesia an d Pat i e n t C a r e : U n i o n N u r s i n g S t r e n g t h s R esonate in H a i t i

n Jimani, the need and desire to provide quality health care I to the earthquake victims of nearby Haiti is great. Resources are strained.

As a new day dawned in this village in Several times the administrators of They have ongoing relationships within the Dominican Republic just east of the the makeshift hospital would walk by the Dominican Republic and provide border with Haiti, medical volunteers Smith, tapping him on the shoulder several teams each year to help with needed help. The nurse-to-patient ratio and whispering “you are blessed!” routine medical care in the villages near was 30-to-1 at their makeshift surgical The Union group, which included Santo Domingo. facility and post-operative center. The students studying in the nurse 17 arrival of capable reinforcements anesthesia and nurse practitioner tracks, was uncertain. as well as faculty, spent seven hours Yet victims of the January earthquake getting to Jimani from Santo Domingo. Going to each in Haiti arrive here frequently. Most They had divided into teams, and most individual tent need multiple surgeries and extensive of the nursing students and faculty went “ rehabilitation for crippling injuries. right to work with primary patient care. was shocking, just So when a team of volunteers from Three in the party, including Smith, to see the actual Anesthesia and Union University’s School of Nursing helped with anesthesia for the surgeries. environments that rolled into Jimani on two large buses, “We just did surgery after surgery, and they were living in. hospital administrators at first were many of the patients went to surgery stunned — and then quietly wept every day,” Smith said. Patient Care: Union tears of joy. The makeshift hospital building had Following the January earthquake, “People were amazed that (Union) six tiny operating rooms. There was little nursing” faculty members investigated had that many people who would be ventilation, and only a few places in the ways they could both help earthquake willing to come,” said School of Nursing building had air conditioning. Some victims and maintain their annual Nursing Strengths Dean Timothy Smith, who led the first 225 patients were spread out among a commitment to people in the of two groups that helped earthquake few rooms in the hospital, another small Dominican Republic. When they made victims. “We were able to go in and take adjacent building, and scores of tents. the necessary connections, students who care of large numbers of people, and Difficult conditions are not unknown had already signed up for the trips had Resonate in Haiti that was a de-stressor for them.” to Union nursing students and faculty. a choice: serve near Santo Domingo People were amazed “that (Union) had that many people who would be willing to come. We were able to go in and take care of large numbers of people. ” Timothy L. Smith D e a n , S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g A nesthesia an d Pat i e n t C a r e : U n i o n N u r s i n g S t r e n g t h s R esonate in H a i t i

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or approach the border and help tent held four different families.” earthquake victims. She said things that had been so “I actually had mixed feelings about important to her a few days before the Timothy L. Smith D e a n , S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g going to the border or through to Haiti,” trip—her classes and graduation plans— said Bethany Giacobozzi, a Union nurse suddenly moved to the back of her anesthesia student from Boston who mind. Leaving the camp was difficult. plans to graduate later this year. “I just wanted to stay so that I could Giacobozzi was in the second Union see people throughout those tents delegation of nursing students and being able to walk and being able to be faculty, arriving shortly after Smith’s transported back home.” group returned to campus. Giacobozzi That might take six months or more. and her colleagues benefitted from the “They accepted it and they did very first group’s experiences. well,” Smith said of the students, “but But there was little preparation for the getting them on the bus (to leave) the pain and suffering the groups observed. last day was tough.” “Going to each individual tent Added Giacobozzi: “I hope there was shocking, just to see the actual are more teams that are going to go environments that they were living in,” through there.” said Giacobozzi. “A lot of times, a single One Year, Three Top Honors at Union Three Union University scholars in three different disciplines each took home one of the top academic awards in their respective fields in 2009.

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One Year, Three Top Honors at Union Bobby Rogers: 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize O n e Y e a r , T h r e e T o p H o n o r s at U n i o n

riter-in-Residence Bobby Rogers wrote poems for his Wcollection Paper Anniversary over the course of 10 years. But it was one relatively brief telephone call that provided a critical breakthrough in his project.

That call came from Ed Ochester, the “One of the luxuries of teaching at Greensboro, New York University, sole judge in the Agnes Lynch Starrett Union is that I’d been able to be selective University of Virginia and other top Poetry Prize competition from the in where I sent it out,” Rogers said. graduate programs in creative writing. University of Pittsburgh Press. According to Rogers, the University of “Union is a very good place to study “He’ll tell you it’s the best university Pittsburgh Press operates in a traditional creative writing,” said Rogers. poetry series in the land,” said Rogers. manner, keeping books in print. “And who knows? He may be right.” “It’s just one of those presses where Ochester broke the news that Rogers’ you hope your book will find a home,” collection had received the 2009 said Rogers, who also has won the We get some Starrett Award. The work that became Greensboro Review Literary Prize in “talented students 23 known as Paper Anniversary had been Poetry for 2002 and has been nominated here with a selected from more than 700 entries. twice for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. “People who read poetry and care Although the poems in Paper compelling about poetry—this is one of the prizes Anniversary were written over the worldview and that they are familiar with,” Rogers said. course of a decade, it was a one-semester interesting stories to Competition is so intense for this faculty research leave that helped tell. It’s just a joy to award that many poets consider it a Rogers shape the collection. He said the work with them. great honor to finish among the top time away from his daily routine allowed 20 entrants. Rogers had achieved that him to write a consistent body of poems distinction in previous years. His name that worked well together, rather than a Rogers sees his own writing as a is now listed with the outstanding poets collection scattered over a longer period keystone” element in his teaching Bobby Rogers: who won those competitions. of time. Many are in narrative form and successes. Shortly after the Starrett Award Also of great significance is the focus on the two themes about which announcement, Rogers was nearly half- publishing commitment that comes Rogers most enjoys writing: families and finished with a second book of poetry. with the award. Paper Anniversary is life in the South. “When you’re teaching a craft,” 2009 Agnes Lynch scheduled for publication in fall 2010. When he is in the classroom at Rogers said, “it’s crucial to practice the At the time of Ochester’s call, Union as a Professor of English, Rogers craft, be involved professionally and be Rogers had been engaged in selecting a cultivates a group of talented students. able to pass that on to students.” publisher. He had committed himself to He has seen some continue their studies Starrett Poetry Prize waiting for the best possible opportunity. at Boston University, Ohio State, UNC- Hal Poe: 2009 Edgar Award O n e Y e a r , T h r e e T o p H o n o r s at U n i o n

t was a prize with which Hal Poe was distinctly I familiar — the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

The award takes its name from Edgar consider the founder of the mystery Allan Poe, the renowned 19th century genre in literature. 25 American author. Hal Poe, Union’s “The sub-text of the whole book is Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Poe’s spiritual journey, and the fact that Culture, is a direct descendent of the most people didn’t realize he became a The sub-text of the man who penned such classic stories as Christian six weeks before he died,” Hal whole book is Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and poems such Poe said. “The book discusses all of his “ as “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” stories in light of the spiritual questions spiritual journey, So when Hal Poe won an Edgar he was asking.” and the fact that Award, the significance resonated both The book was commissioned most people didn’t on ancestral and literary levels. and released to coincide with the realize he became a “I was truly surprised,” said Poe. “One bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s Christian six weeks doesn’t expect to win an award like this. birth in 1809. before he died. It’s one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country, comparing with the National Book Award or a Pulitzer Prize. It was a huge honor.” Hal Poe: The award came for Poe’s book ” entitled Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories. The biography retraces the life and 2009 Edgar Award contributions of the man many Emily Lean: Academy of Management 2009 Best Paper Award O n e Y e a r , T h r e e T o p H o n o r s at U n i o n

hen Emily Lean embarked on a research project about the Wimpact of domestic violence in the workplace with two colleagues and a corporate business leader, she hoped to translate raw academic findings into something of practical use for any office manager.

She could not have imagined the Management announced Lean and The article recommends an approach reaction that work has generated. her colleagues had won its Best Paper that can be summarized in three words: “Everyone has got a story,” said Lean, Award for 2009. recognize, respond and refer. who began her work while still a doctoral “This is the award of all awards,” “You don’t have to be the expert,” student at the University of Arkansas. said Keith Absher, dean of the McAfee Lean said, “but you have to be “Everyone knows someone who had School of Business Administration at conscious enough, and know your a boyfriend who stalked them or the Union. “This is the big time. There’s employees well enough to recognize girlfriend who wouldn’t stop calling.” not any other award in the field that their behavior and point them in the Lean tells her classes that even can compare to this as far as scholarly right direction, not come after them though those might not seem like activity is concerned.” serious crimes, they are still considered But Lean and her co-authors were not 27 forms of intimate partner violence. motivated by prestigious awards. They “Coming Into the Light: Intimate saw a need to do top-level research Partner Violence and Its Effects at and then present results in a form that My husband joked Work” is a 15-page presentation managers without specialized academic “that it’s all downhill published in the Academy of training could understand. from here. Management Perspectives journal. The “We did a lot of empirical studies, research was funded by grants from looking at statistics,” Lean said. “But the National Institute of Justice and that’s interesting pretty much only and make them feel uncomfortable the Women’s Giving Circle at the to academics. We were able to take about” themselves or embarrassed.” University of Arkansas. that information and translate it Lean was graduated with a Union Lean is now an Assistant Professor into something that everybody could business degree in 2002. Her Union Emily Lean: in Union’s McAfee School of Business understand. This is a layperson’s article colleagues say it is highly unusual to Administration. She co-authored the written for managers.” publish such a significant work and win paper with Anne O’Leary-Kelly and Lean sees cultural engagement at one of the field’s top academic awards so Carol Reeves, faculty members at the every level of the project. The future early in a career. Academy of Management Sam M. Walton College of Business at managers she educates must be able “My husband joked that it’s all downhill the University of Arkansas, and Jane to recognize the signs of domestic from here,” Lean said with a smile. “It’s Randel, Vice President of Corporate abuse. She also wants them to be able nice to win the award, but it’s more Communications at Liz Claiborne, Inc. to demonstrate Christian caring in an important that the award can be used to 2009 Best Paper Award After publication, the Academy of appropriate yet effective way. have a tangible benefit for Union.” Ensuring the Future with Innovative Programs The Christian intellectual tradition is a stream,“ and we need to encourage our faculty to step into it. Don’t be on the shoreline. Step into it and be a contributing scholar in Ensuring the Future your discipline. with Innovative A ssociate Provost an d D e a n o f I nstruction Barbara McMillin Programs ” Gateway Program Focuses New Students on Academic Challenge E n s u r i n g the Future w i t h I nnovative Pro g r a m s

nion takes an uncommon approach to the common need Ufor new students to understand the demands of higher education. The University’s groundbreaking “We intentionally decided to steer the importance of the liberal arts,” said Gateway Program opens a philosophical away from that type of course model and Kriaski. “It made me even more grateful “front door” and invites students to an make this a genuinely academic course,” to be at Union, where I would receive introductory understanding of the core said Barnard, “a course that’s a true an excellently well-rounded education.” curriculum, the Christian intellectual gateway to the core course curriculum. “Coming in, I think most students tradition, how a Christian should engage So in that sense, there aren’t a lot of really don’t have any idea of what culture and the overall integration of models out there.” college is about,” said Gene Fant, Dean faith and top-tier learning. At the start of the Fall term, all of the College of Arts and Sciences. 31 “Our goal is to begin to introduce students meet together for a series of them to the main contours of the plenary sessions, with one meeting Christian intellectual tradition,” said devoted to each of these three themes: Justin Barnard, Director of the Carl Christian Faith, Worldview and Culture Our goal is to F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual and the Liberal Arts. After that, students begin to introduce Discipleship, Associate Professor of meet in smaller sections led by a rotating “ them to the Philosophy and Coordinator of the series of faculty members, each of whom Gateway Program. focuses on one of the three themes. main contours “When they get to those core courses Assignments tend to push students of the Christian and those major courses, they’ll have a to think about the themes in practical intellectual peg on which to hang all the things that ways. Some might look at a music video tradition. Gateway Program they’re being given.” and analyze its cultural presuppositions. Many colleges and universities have Others reflect on cultural events or great required an introductory course of works of literature. “Students are really prone to not this type, often awarding one hour Among the 500 new students enrolled figuring” things out until their senior Focuses New Students of credit. Barnard said many of those in the new Gateway course was Jason year, if left to their own devices.” courses are simply extended freshman Kriaski, who earned dual enrollment “This is really helping the students orientation sessions that explain credits before arriving as a full-time to target in. It’s the start of getting them academic requirements and the system freshman in the Fall. to think Christianly in ways that on Academic Challenge of receiving college credit. “One of the benefits was the stress on are rigorous.” Union faculty members have founded a variety of creative study programs designed to help students engage the world’s culture in a way that is not always possible in a classroom. They explore cultures and disciplines that sometimes greatly stretch comfort zones but also instill a hunger for more of these opportunities. Three such programs are Common Foundations, Scientific Discovery in North Africa, and UU in Italy.

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tudents of the arts often find themselves reading Schurch history. Budding theologians must become familiar with art.

33 tions on on Study Tours: da Crossing Disciplines mm o oun C and Borders F N Scientific Discovery in nion University faculty and students have made an interdisciplinary investment in North Africa. U ort Through their efforts during the past five so the people contribute resources, effort years, work has been accomplished through and time,” said Randall Schwindt, an a non-government organization on tasks Associate Professor of Engineering who such as water purification, development of coordinates the student teams and makes renewable energy sources and elementary the trip with them during Spring Break. science instruction in local schools. “Working together for the common good Union engineering and science is itself a positive change.” students provide the know-how and Schwindt’s wife Virginia is Assistant legwork to complete these tasks in Professor of Social Work at Union. She h an area where many people do not accompanies him on the trips. Everyone understand English. Because French is traveling from Union looks forward to

widely spoken, Union students studying building relationships and seeing more Afric that language also make the annual trip continuity and development in projects and serve as translators. from year to year. The NGO partnering with the “We are seeking to apply what we are 34 group from Union works alongside learning in engineering, science and government efforts to promote French, but we are working together,” community groups and development. Schwindt said. “It’s been a really good “They try to get buy-in from the people, experience in that way, to cross disciplines.”

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t was a moment that would be difficult to I duplicate in a classroom lecture.

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y almost all accounts, faculty development is a traditional strength Bat Union University. For years, individuals would inquire about highly specific needs in their classroom settings – perhaps a rubric for evaluating their students, for example – and find willing, effective help from the Center for Faculty Development.

Yet despite the success, something service, and then an institution will her description with newfound enthusiasm. was missing. have some other arm that is sort of their Patty Hamilton, Associate Professor of “What we found was that we were faith integration component,” observes English, completed a 15-month faculty only meeting the needs of a select few McMillin. “We see ours as being one. The research leave. She published two major who would say ‘I don’t know how to do thread of faith integration runs through articles, one of which stemmed from this; can you support me?’” said Barbara all that we do in faculty development.” information she had the time to gather McMillin, Associate Provost and Dean A second prong is called “Fresh for her initial idea. of Instruction. Start.” It is an orientation for new “I think this is how scholarship works “We looked for a way to meet faculty members. The annual number of at its best,” Hamilton said. “Answering individual needs while addressing bigger newcomers has increased dramatically, one question will unearth a new set of picture faculty development issues.” from less than 10 a few years ago to questions that call out to be answered.” Such a philosophy is not typical of most several dozen in Fall 2009. The larger George Guthrie, Benjamin W. Perry institutions. But Union’s call to reclaim group brings much more diversity of Professor of Bible, used a faculty research 37 the Christian intellectual tradition experience, and that can be a challenge leave to become a scholar-in-residence at naturally lends itself to connectivity when designing an orientation to Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. across traditional academic lines. Union’s faith-and-learning approach to He took his entire family and said the “There was an important need for higher education. experience will shape several significant our faculty to be able to talk to each “We feel one of our strongest offerings is research projects in years to come. other about the connections between what we do for new faculty,” said McMillin. “If God gifts us with opportunities to go English and history and accounting,” A third prong, known simply as into cross-cultural situations and academic said McMillin. “How are we in this “Resources and Support,” involves a contexts which really push us, we ought together? How does one area at some variety of opportunities that faculty to take those opportunities,” Guthrie said. point impact another area?” members have come to expect at Union: “Those can be stimulating in a way that McMillin said Union adopted a opportunities for teaching and learning marks us for the rest of our lives.” Faculty three-pronged approach to faculty grants and a faculty research leave McMillin refers to that concept as the development that has proven highly program that is gaining in popularity. “Ethos of Expectation.” effective in bringing people together. “The Christian intellectual tradition “Now there seems to be this The first she labels “In the Academy.” It is a stream, and we need to encourage expectation among the faculty that Development: The takes in big-picture faculty workshops, our faculty to step into it,” McMillin they will have opportunities to seek dialog groups and collegiums. said. “Don’t be on the shoreline. Step development,” said McMillin. “In some places, faculty development into it and be a contributing scholar in “I think it’s exciting and gratifying that is very much about your teaching or your discipline.” our faculty have pursued excellence.” Ethos of Expectation about your scholarship or about your McMillin can find many who will second Brightest Students Potential in Union’s Challenge Reveals Honors xploring the Christian intellectual tradition Esometimes requires students and professors to design classes and schedules in non-traditional ways.

In the case of top scholars, their campus,” Huelin said. means of discovery should not Students admitted to Union with at be limited by class schedules and least a 3.5/4.0 grade point average and curriculum requirements. at least a 28 ACT score are invited to At Union, many such students have apply for the general honors stage. been able to partner with the faculty to The second stage is Discipline-Specific take learning to new levels within the Honors. Huelin describes this as an Honors Program, an interdisciplinary “opportunity to pursue high level, funded opportunity open to students with research in your major and under the demonstrated academic abilities. direct supervision of a faculty mentor.” Although successful, Union’s Honors Students again apply for admission Program became the focus of some to this second stage, usually in the Fall change in 2007, during the University’s semester of the junior year. They are

accreditation reaffirmation with the required to attend at least four honors P Southern Association of Colleges and colloquia during their junior year and four Schools. Candidate institutions are more during their senior year, complete rogr 38 asked to design a Quality Enhancement 12 hours of honors contract courses in the Plan to strengthen an existing program. major, produce an honors project/thesis in Union chose Honors. their major and maintain a 3.5 GPA. Associate Professor of English Scott “The students that we get now are Huelin became Director of the Honors so talented that we kind of have to Community when he joined the Union revisit things with some frequency to faculty from Valparaiso University in 2009. make sure we’re providing them with Huelin earned his Ph.D. from the adequate challenge,” said Dean of the University of Chicago and leads the Honors College of Arts and Sciences Gene Fant, Community in a two-stage approach. who added that Professor of Philosophy The first is General Honors, a stage Randall Bush built an excellent

Huelin said provides freshman and foundation for the program and the QEP. am sophomore students with innovative, “We’re looking for ways to challenge interdisciplinary, inquiry-based students who don’t even understand the courses which are designed to tackle kind of potential they really have.” big questions of long-standing and contemporary relevance. “Best of all, you get small classes (maximum 15) composed of similarly : bright and motivated students – classes led by some of the best teachers on E n s u r i n g the Future w i t h I nnovative Pro g r a m s

dozen artists were available to create a memorial A sculpture for The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s historic home in Nashville.

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This one was really ee Benson ee “important to me. L Artistic Excellence Excellence Artistic in the Public Square Public the in ” Top Historians Arrive at Union E n s u r i n g the Future w i t h I nnovative Pro g r a m s

or 13 years, The Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series has brought Fthe world’s leading historians to Union University. Stephen Carls, University Professor of History and Department Chair, has sought the highest caliber of scholars—all talented speakers and prodigious writers— to present lectures on significant topics in their areas of study.

“Proof of the historians’ success Pulitzer Prize winner David Hackett is the author, co-author or editor of 10 professionally comes from the book Fischer was the featured speaker last year, books on American history, including prizes and excellence in teaching awards focusing on “Leaders in an Open Society: In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in they have won, from the large number The Presidencies of Washington, the Heart of America, 1859-1863, which of books they have written and from the Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack won the 2004 Bancroft Prize from quality of the institutions where they Obama.” Fischer, the Warren Professor Columbia University. teach,” Carls said. of History at Brandeis University, “Among his academic colleagues, The lectures are free and open to the is the author of 10 books, including Dr. Ayers has been praised for his public, attracting 600-800 students, Washington’s Crossing, for which he original and innovative scholarship. As educators and community members received the Pulitzer Prize in history in a history professor at the University of each October. 2005. He has also won an Irving Medal Virginia, his students raved about his “For many people, these lectures will for Literary Distinction, an Old North captivating lecture style and gift for be the only time they will ever hear in Church Lantern Award and a Boston storytelling,” Carls said. 41 person Pulitzer Prize winners, Bancroft Public Library Literary Light Award. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Prize winners and other news-making In 2008, Jeremy Black, Professor of S. Wood, the Alva O. Way University historians,” Carls said. History at the University of Exeter Professor and professor of history at Brown The 2010 lecturer is Daniel in Great Britain, looked at “Why the University, was the lecture series guest in Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize winner Allies Won World War II.” Black, 2006. One of the foremost authorities in and emeritus professor at both the whose boundless energy helps explain the world on the American Revolution, University of California, Los Angeles, “his perpetual-motion pen,” is a prolific he is the author of several books on the and Oxford University. He won the writer, having authored, co-authored subject including The Radicalism of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his work, What or edited almost 100 books. He is an American Revolution for which he won Hath God Wrought, and that year was internationally acclaimed specialist on the Pulitzer Prize. also American Historian Laureate for modern military history, 18th-century Other past speakers for the Carls- the New York Historical Society and British history and international Schwerdfeger series have included the SHEAR Book Prize winner. relations. He is a senior fellow at the Martin Marty from the University of “Our hope is that lecture attendees Foreign Policy Research Institute in Chicago, Harry Stout and Jay Winter will leave with a new appreciation for Philadelphia and a member of the British from Yale University, Jack Greene from Top Historians history and a desire to read some of the Records Association, the Royal Historical The Johns Hopkins University, Gerhard books that the lecturers have written,” Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Weinberg from the University of North Carls said. “We also want to underscore Civil War scholar and University of Carolina, Thomas Childers from the to our audience that history is a Richmond President Edward L. Ayers University of Pennsylvania and George Arrive at Union fascinating, exciting subject.” was the featured speaker in 2007. He Herring from the University of Kentucky. Study with the Authors s t u d y w ith the authors

everal years ago, Union University designed an advertisement Sheadlined “Study with the Authors.” Pictured in the ad was a tall stack of books written by Union faculty members.

That stack of books continues to grow Christian audiences, including about six weeks prior to his death. taller. In fact, attempts to assemble a Christianity in the Academy: Teaching “In the purely secular market, Barnes truly current list of book publications and at the Intersection of Faith and and Noble printed 50 thousand copies upcoming projects for a growing faculty Learning (Baker Academic, 2004) and and it was received enthusiastically by 43 can prove difficult at Union University. Chance or Dance: An Evaluation of literary scholars, which surprised me. I But it is valuable to consider a Design (Templeton, 2008) which he didn’t expect that. sampling of recent book projects: co-authored with Jimmy Davis, Vice “It confirmed for me Lewis’ some already in print, others about to President for the Germantown Campus. argument that the most effective be published, and still others in the But Poe sees a need to go another apologetics is little books about any development stage. direction based upon shifting culture. subject by Christians with their Among the most prolific authors at “When I was a child, I grew up a Christianity latent. So I’ll be doing Union is Hal Poe, Charles Colson context in which everyone knew more of that in the future.” Professor of Faith and Culture. Poe the Christian story. So we’ve got a is refocusing how he will consider and greater challenge now, more like Paul’s develop future book projects. challenge in Athens: how do you “C.S. Lewis said an important explain the gospel to people who simply part of re-evangelizing the culture is do not have a context for it?” to permeate the culture as much as A biography of Poe’s famous relative, possible with Christian ideas,” said Poe. Edgar Allan Poe, brought critical acclaim Study with “That’s a huge project. It’s going to take and a top literary prize from the Mystery thousands upon thousands of Christians Writers of America. Edgar Allan Poe: being Christian in their own field. An Illustrated Companion to His Tell- Poe has been highly successful Tale Stories reveals for the first time that the Authors developing books for evangelical Edgar Allan Poe became a Christian Teacher-student “relationship has a salient spiritual dimension because it transcends the material and temporal nature of other education goals. We believe that it takes a whole teacher to teach a whole child.

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George Guthrie, Benjamin W. University Professor of History The forthcoming book by Thomas Perry Professor of Bible, has been and Department Chair Stephen R. Rosebrough, University working on three major book projects. Carls is co-authoring a book on Professor of Education and Dean Having already 20th-century Europe with his wife, of the College of Education completed Alice-Catherine Carls, the Tom Elam and Human Studies, and Ralph highly acclaimed Distinguished Professor of History Leverett, University Professor of commentaries on at the University of Tennessee- Special Education and Director of Hebrews, Guthrie Martin. Tentatively titled Europe in the Master of Education Program, is recently completed a the Crucible, the book is due to be entitled Transformational Teaching in section on that book published by Pearson Education an Informational Age for good reason. for Commentary on in 2013. The book is being published by the New Testament “One factor that we will incorporate the Association for Supervision and Use of the Old that other texts don’t is religion,” Curriculum Development. Testament (Edited Carls said. “That’s something I’m “We want to focus on why we teach by G. K. Beale working on that involves more than as well as how we learn and teach,” and D.A. Carson, just Christianity. We’ll also look at the Rosebrough said. “We have written the published by Baker rise of Islam as seen in the latter part book because we think that teaching Academic, 2007). of the 20th-century and Christian- should be not only about adding Guthrie was one of an international Jewish relations, including the Christian knowledge, which includes accessing team of scholars working on the project, response to the Holocaust,” Carls said. information, but also about transforming which he said is being heralded as Another reason Carls and his wife the lives of students for the better. This 45 “unique and a standard of scholarship.” are writing this book is to give much idea is in concert with the education Guthrie also has completed a manuscript greater emphasis to Eastern Europe’s ethic in Jesus’ time and certainly was His entitled Read the Bible for Life that will role in events of the 20th-century. holistic motivation as a master teacher.” be published by Broadman and Holman. These countries are given prominence While the book is about pedagogy He said it is part of a larger biblical literacy because of their role in the origins of primarily, Transformational Teaching project he is doing with LifeWay and the two World Wars and their integral is one of the few books that combine B&H. The release will include a one-year participation in the European Union, the “3 P’s” of pedagogy, psychology, and chronological Bible, a Reader’s Guide to Carls said. philosophy for educators. the Bible and a video curriculum designed “We ordinarily don’t hear much The book is based on eight principles as a companion to the main book. about Eastern Europe,” Carls said. “This which constitute the chapters: “Teach A still larger project is about a year book will be innovative in looking at to Inspire,” “Be a Whole Teacher,” from completion. Guthrie has been demographics in a way others haven’t in “Teach the Whole Person,” “Place Your researching and writing a commentary terms of how we handle periodizations.” Students at the Heart of Your Teaching,” on the book of 2 Corinthians which In addition to years of research “Teach for Learning,” “Know How Your should approach 1000 pages in length. and scholarship on Europe, Stephen Students Learn,” “Teach So That Your Much of the research for the volume and Alice-Catherine have extensive Students Know How to Learn” and came during a faculty research leave experience living and traveling in “Teach by Asking Questions.” that Guthrie and his family experienced Europe. This year they will lead their In the first chapter Rosebrough and at Tyndale House, a residential biblical second 15-day study trip to Germany, Leverett present a Transformational research facility in Cambridge, England. the Czech Republic and Poland. Pedagogy Model that combines academic, social and spiritual goals with ultra-sound shock waves to break up book, God as Author: a focus on the learner at the center of kidney stones still lodged in the kidney. a Biblical Approach to the teaching paradigm. “It’s a less invasive surgery, which is Narrative (Broadman “We contend that education has what we’re all striving for these days in and Holman two broad-based goals – academic surgical techniques,” Binns-Turner said. Academic, 2010). and social – and that our educational She predicts more publications of this Fant explores a systems as well as higher education not type for Union nurse anesthesia faculty, variety of writings to only have lost the holistic synergy of who are experienced in a variety of support this concept, the goals, but also have separated the advanced techniques. and not all of them spiritual dimension from the social goal “It has definitely sparked more are western or structure,” Rosebrough said. interest in getting our knowledge and Christian in origin. “Teacher-student relationship has a salient our expertise out beyond the walls of In the Hindu epic spiritual dimension because it transcends Union,” said Binns-Turner. “There will The Ramayana, for the material and temporal nature of other be many more of these opportunities example, Fant sees education goals,” Rosebrough explained. in the future.” balance quickly become “We believe that it takes a whole teacher Dean of the College of Arts and imbalance: “The rest to teach a whole child.” Sciences Gene Fant’s newest book of the story tells us how the hero Rama Pamela Binns-Turner, Assistant examines the way humans process a story. tries to get things restored to a sense of Director, MSN-Nurse Anesthesia Patterns of human story telling balance and harmony.” 46 Program, and Molly Wright, through the centuries often display Fant observes that the idea of general Assistant Professor of Nursing, both a fairly simple structure: there is revelation through the concept of story is were chosen to write chapters for the an introduction of balance, then a rarely pursued in academic circles. highly respected textbook Case Studies complication that causes imbalance, “When I came to Union, President in Nurse Anesthesia, edited by Sass followed by a restoration of balance. Dockery challenged me to look at what Elisha (Jones & Bartlett, 2009). As The process leading to that final stage the Lordship of Christ looks like over the title implies, the book focuses on often constitutes much of the story. my discipline,” Fant said. “So I started a case study approach “God designed our looking at creation-fall-redemption to learning anesthesia reaction to story to be related to literature. When I started techniques. one that draws us to looking at it as a principle, I realized it’s Binns-Turner the realization that we everywhere I looked.” wrote Chapter 42, need restoration—that Fant sees the idea of restoring “Extracorporeal Shock things are messed balance as a central tenet for academic Wave Lithotripsy” and up,” said Fant. “Story disciplines such as chemistry, physics, Wright contributed works the way story biology, geology, music and theater. Chapter 48, “Arthroscopic works because God His book draft found its way to Shoulder Surgery.” designed story that a pair of highly respected thinkers: Binns-Turner has way to reflect James W. Sire has been writing about frequently performed the Gospel.” worldview issues for years and penned anesthesia for ESWL That concept is the a groundbreaking work called The procedures, which employ basis for Fant’s new Universe Next Door; Leland Ryken is a s t u d y w ith the authors

professor of English at Wheaton (Ill.) Brad Green, Associate Professor College and an authority on the Bible of Christian Studies, said his book, as literature. Both have written glowing The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering endorsements for Fant’s book. and Shaping the Intellectual Life Fant hopes to see readers recognize (Crossway, 2010) has been on his mind God’s hand in the human experience. for some time. He also wants to see more reflective “The book begins with a simple reading and writing. observation and a simple question: “We should see writing as one of the wherever the cross is planted the ways we can articulate and refine our academy follows,” Green said. “Why understanding of human experience,” is this the case? What is it about the Fant said. “When we read and write gospel that encourages and generates communally, we see connections.” intellectual deliberation and thought?” Ray Van Neste, Associate Professor Green’s book asserts that the of Christian Studies and Director Christian vision of God, man and the of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical world generates intellectual deliberation Studies, has been involved with two and argues that, at the end of the day, book projects in recent months. it is only the Christian understanding Entrusted with the Gospel: Paul’s of reality that can really account for the Theology in the Pastoral Epistles life of the mind. 47 (Broadman and Holman) is a multi- Colin Gunton and the Failure of authored volume that contains Augustine: The Theology of Colin Van Neste’s chapter “Cohesion and Gunton in Light of Augustine, also by Structure in the Pastoral Epistles.” Green, is being published by Wipf and “The book as a whole is an overview Stock this year. of a scholarly discussion about these Green is also editing and writing letters,” Van Neste said. Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: In The Holman Christian Standard Engaging with Early and Medieval Study Bible (2010), Van Neste Theologians (Apollos, 2010) and contributed the study notes on the (InterVarsity Press, 2010). pastoral epistles. Gary Smith, Professor of Christian Studies, has published a monumental two-volume commentary on Isaiah. The highly acclaimed second volume on chapters 40-66 was released in 2009. Smith’s previous commentaries were written on the minor prophets of Amos, Hosea and Micah. He has also worked as a translator on four Bible translation teams. Going Places: Union’s Excellence- Driven World Travel A true liberal education – opening their eyes“ to other civilizations and how they have evolved as strong nations – can be an important first step to addressing Going Places: their problems. U niversity Provost Carla Sanderson Presenter in a f o u r - d ay c o n f e r e n c e o n d e m o c r at i c Union’s Excellence- h i g h e r e d u c at i o n , E r b e l , I r a q Driven World Travel ” Sanderson P itting in a room with 50 academic vice presidents Sand faculty leaders of various educational rovost institutions, Union University Provost Carla Sanderson was right at home – even though she was on the other side of the planet.

Sanderson spent four January days “The strongest outcome to the in Iraq, sharing her expertise with workshop was in them formulating a academic leaders who want a more clear idea of where to start in the process democratic form of higher education in of moving from where they are now to their country. Her trip was part of a U.S. where they want to be,” Sanderson said. Agency for International Development Her presentations, at the Cultural and grant with the U.S. Department of Social Center of Salahaddin University State, and came about in part through in the Kurdish city of Erbel, focused her experiences as a commissioner for on such topics as the U.S. model of the Southern Association of Colleges accreditation, how schools develop and Schools, an entity of the U.S. new programs and ensure excellence to Department of Education. in existing programs, and how faculty

Iraqi universities practice open members envision new majors. Carla 50 admissions, and students don’t take “The understanding the Kurds have admissions tests. Aptitude tests of the world is war,” she said. “It’s what determine what they are permitted to they’ve known for generations. Kurdish study. Those who score highest must students are not studying anybody else’s study medicine, whether or not they history and problem-solving through

want to pursue such a career. what we could call liberal arts education.” I Sanderson found that Iraqi university Still, Sanderson chooses to believe students often lack motivation to that somehow, in the midst of their r perform well. struggles, they will look to education The strongest and not violence to address their a “outcome to the conflicts in the future. workshop was in “A true liberal education – opening their eyes to other civilizations and how them formulating q they have evolved as strong nations – can a clear idea of be an important first step to addressing where to start in the their problems,” Sanderson said. process of moving “The fact that there are so many from where they people who get that – among those who are now to where have fled and have now returned to Kurdistan to invest in its future – is a they want to be. deep encouragement.” ” G o i n g P l a c e s : U n i o n ’ s E xcellence-Driven Worl d T r av e l Union Faculty to Nigeria t was scheduled as a 30-minute meeting. It ended up taking I about three hours. Assistant Professor of Music Shawn Okpebholo didn’t mind a bit.

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It was much more “than I could have ever imagined. ” HERA Presentation to Mexico MA he MAIS cohort from Summer 2009 was Tselected to make a presentation at the Humanities Education and Research Association 2010 organizational conference in El Paso, Texas.

“This is huge that it was accepted to Zacatecas, the summer cohort was IS the 2010 HERA,” said Phillip Ryan, provided with work space, internet, Union Professor of Language and housing, access to families and the Coordinator of the TESL Program. assistance of an interpreter. John “This is the first time cohort research Sullivan, the University of Zacatecas Scholars out of the program is to be presented in intensive language specialist in Nahuatl, such a high-powered academic context.” served as host. The research was based on a For four and a half weeks, the graduate collaborative summer field experience students conducted ethnographic project in Zacatecas, Mexico. A cohort interviews and made observations. of MAIS graduate students gathered “During the debriefing time in data about human beings in context, Guanajuato, Mexico which followed,” intentionally trying to not generalize Ryan said, “the group looked at themes 52 their findings, a good approach in that emerged from the research, such international studies, Ryan said. as cultural identity, Mexican family life As part of Union University’s and structure, and how these operate in agreement with the University of broader cultural structures.” and

This is the first time “cohort research out of the program is to be presented in such a high-powered academic context. ” G o i n g P l a c e s : U n i o n ’ s E xcellence-Driven Worl d T r av e l

n what is believed to be a first in its 187 year history, I a Union University choral group was invited to perform at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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It’s an honor to “be selected. ” ingers Washington National National Washington Cathedral Union University University Union S The Benefits of Rigorous Scientific Inquiry My particular interest is in the philosophy“ of science, and that’s something I hope to bring to the Center.

D i r e c t o r , H a mm o n s C e n t e r f o r S c i e n t i f i c S t u d i e s Jennifer Gruenke The Benefits ” of Rigorous Scientific Inquiry Hammons Center Invites Collaboration T h e B e n e f i t s o f R i g o r o u s S c i e n t i f i c I n q u i r y

hen Jennifer Gruenke arrived at Union University, Wshe saw a unique opportunity to explore serious questions. Union is large enough to offer more after seven years of teaching at other of Virginia and focuses on teaching than 100 undergraduate programs of institutions. She received her doctorate immunology courses at Union. study, yet remains a distinctly Christian in cell biology from the University But Gruenke has many academic learning community and interests beyond her exhibits widespread interest field of specialization. in integrating Christian White Hall: Furnished to Offer a She invites scholars principles from what from all areas of study Gruenke calls a fairly broad, Top-Tier Education in the Sciences to join in on everything evangelical perspective. from formal research to “My particular interest Union’s new science building is White Hall, a three-story, informal discussions. 57 is in the philosophy of 63,000 sq. ft. facility that has already touched thousands of lives. “It’s possible that I science,” Gruenke said. It ranks among the finest facilities of its kind in the Southeast. could try to get people “And that’s something I Opened in 2007, the building houses the Departments of from different disciplines, hope to bring to Biology and Chemistry, as well as the School of Nursing. especially within the the Center.” Among the features Union students and faculty use daily: sciences, but outside them • Gruenke is the director 20 teaching laboratories (including a nuclear magnetic as well, talking about of Union’s Edward P. resonance facility) collaborative research,” • Hammons Center for Seven hospital bed bays, a patient simulation environment Gruenke said. Scientific Studies. The and one operating room for the School of Nursing This research fits into • Center, located on the third Five of the six human patient simulators are new releases Gruenke’s larger goal for floor of White Hall, exists from Medical Education Technology Institute (METI). the Hammons Center of to encourage excellent There is also a birthing simulator Noelle made by encouraging integration research and publication Gaumard Scientific that includes a simulated newborn of various disciplines, • by faculty, sponsors Three undergraduate research suites. This fills a critical including philosophy conferences and lectures, need, since research is required of all undergraduate and science. and encourages community science majors Hammons Center • $4.2 million HVAC system that re-circulates air every outreach programs. Gruenke, an Associate eight minutes • Professor of Biology, came $40,000 washer for laboratory glassware • to Union in fall 2009 750 gallon freshwater aquarium Invites Collaboration • 42 offices, seven lecture classrooms and three conference rooms to Collaboration Leads bout four years ago, one of Max Haifei Li’s Union colleagues came to him with a problem.

A I Associate Professor of Chemistry peer-review process prior to publication. Michael Salazar needed Li’s computer To what factors does Li ascribe his nnov science expertise. prolific research and writing? “One day after a greater faculty “Being very willing to collaborate,” meeting, he came to me and asked a Li said. “I seek out former classmates, database question,” recalled Li, Associate advisers, colleagues in research labs.” Professor of Computer Science at Union. Li began his collaboration after “He complained about when he used a graduating from Xi’an Jiaotong University commercial database, it was very slow for in his native China. He helped an oil his application. He asked me to write a company develop software, which led C-program, which is a low-level one but to his first paper on Oil Geophysical very efficient for his use.” Prospecting, written in Chinese. He then That problem led the two Union worked as a research assistant to Stanley

scholars to more collaboration and Y.W. Su at the University of Florida a eventually a Pew Research Grant to while in graduate school. 58 study molecular dynamics simulation. Li has focused his computer science “He will do the chemistry work,” Li research in the fields of automated tion said of Salazar. “I will use a PHP-based negotiation, E-commerce, application approach to make the simulation result integration and cloud computing. evident on a website.” In addition to seeking collaboration Such collaboration is a hallmark when possible, Li also credits a flexible of Li’s career. He has produced 29 attitude about research and a constant academic articles since 1993, and about quest to seek out what’s important in 20 of those went through the rigorous the research community. “The main idea is that you have to follow the trends. What is important for the research community in your field?” Li remains well connected to his alma mater in China as a visiting lecturer and The main idea is that to his former colleagues at IBM’s New “you have to follow York research center, where he did post- the trends. What is doctoral research for two years. important for the He said connecting with those research community resources – and Union colleagues such in your field? as Salazar – is critical. “All of these are very valuable resources.” ” T h e B e n e f i t s o f R i g o r o u s S c i e n t i f i c I n q u i r y Gross Anatomy: An Important Head Start for Union Pre-Med Students or first-year medical students, gross anatomy can be an intimidating class. FThey must process volumes of information about intricate systems and become comfortable working with cadavers.

59 60 Speakers Jean BethkeElshtain,the Laura Spelman David Novak,theJ.RichardandDorothy Robert P. George,McCormickProfessorof David Lewis,ProfessorofPoliticalScience, Stephen Prothero,ProfessorofReligion, Michael Lindsay, Professor ofSociology, David HackettFischer, PulitzerPrize P R Margaret Carlson,amongothers. Prothero, DavidBrooks,MarkShields,and issues, includingStephenCarter, Stephen serious engagementwithtoday’s crucial Union intheFallandSpringsemestersfor erformers ecent C Political Ethics attheUniversity Rockefeller Professor ofSocialand Philosophy attheUniversity ofToronto of theStudyReligionand Professorof Shiff ChairofJewishStudies asProfessor Jurisprudence, PrincetonUniversity Vanderbilt University Boston University Rice University History, BrandeisUniversity winner andtheWarren Professorof The U nion F ampus S orum peakers/L Hoover Institution. Stanford University’s Public Policyat Senior Fellowon State andcurrent former Secretaryof Condoleezza Rice, keynote speakerwas The mostrecent leaders tocampus. international national and Banquet Annual bringsspeakersto Union University’s S brings cholarship ecturers/ D.A. Carson,ResearchProfessorofNew R. AlbertMohler, President,The Timothy George,FoundingDean,Beeson John Dancy(’59),formerNBCNews Todd Wilson, Professor ofOrgan,Jacobs Libby Larsen,GrammyAward-winning Christopher Tollefsen, Author Russell D.Moore,SeniorVice President Michael Card,ChristianRecordingArtist Katty Kay, Co-Presenter, BBCWorld News Duane Litfin,President,Wheaton(Ill.) Ken Cowan,AssistantProfessorofOrgan, Daniel Akin,President,Southeastern Hunter Baker, DirectorofStrategic Robert Smith,AssociateProfessorof Tite Tienou, Dean,Trinity Evangelical Robert Brabenec, Professor of Mathematics School Testament, Trinity EvangelicalDivinity Southern BaptistTheologicalSeminary Divinity School Correspondent Republic Contributing EditorforTheNew of ChicagoDivinitySchooland School ofMusic, IndianaUniversity Composer Southern BaptistTheological Seminary Dean oftheSchoolTheology atThe for AcademicAdministrationand College University Westminster Choir CollegeofRider Baptist TheologicalSeminary Houston BaptistUniversity Assistant ProfessorofGovernment, Planning, AssociateProvostand Divinity, BeesonDivinitySchool Divinity School Christians intheMathematicalSciences Secretary oftheAssociation at Wheaton(Ill.)CollegeandExecutive James LeoGarrett,DistinguishedProfessor Millard Erickson,DistinguishedProfessor John Woodbridge, Professor of Church History Tom Cooper, Professor of Visual and Media Gerald L.Bray, ResearchProfessor, R Jeff Wilson, AssistantProfessorof Ed Stetzer, DirectorofLifeWay Research ecent S Theological Seminary Emeritus, SouthwesternBaptist Western Seminary of TheologyatTruett Seminaryand Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the History of Christian Thought, Arts, EmersonCollege Samford University Education attheUniversityofMemphis Christian Resources and MissiologistinResidence,LifeWay cholars-in-R esidence faculty scholarshi p

Books (Authored and Edited) (Nashville: B&H, 2010) “On Earth as It Is in Heaven,” Building Bridges, with Timothy George Centennial Anniversary of (Nashville: Convention, 2007) Articles the West Tennessee NAACP, Renewing Minds: Serving Church and “Fifty Days Like No Other,” 2009 Society through Higher Education The Educator (Spring 2008) “Exploring the Christian (Nashville: B&H, 2008) “The History of New Testament Intellectual Tradition,” Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal: Studies at Southern Strauss Lectures, Lincoln Seminary,” SBJT Forum, A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Christian University, 2009 ent Proposal (Nashville: B&H, 2008) Southern Baptist Journal of “Renewing Minds: Faith, Church, Theology (Spring 2009) John A. Broadus: A Living Legacy, co-edited Academy, and Culture.” d with Roger Duke (Nashville: B&H, 2009) Major Presentations Keynote Annual Address, North American Professors of Christian Education, 2009 Southern Baptist Identity: An Evangelical “The Gospel, Paradigm Shifts, and “So Many Denominations: The Rise, Decline, Denomination Faces the Future, editor Globalization,” Fall Lectures, Grace College and Future of Denominationalism,” (Wheaton: Crossway, 2009) and Seminary, 2007 Plenary Address, Conference on Southern Handbook for Christian Leadership, editor “The History of Calvinism in the Southern

Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Future of resi (Nashville: B&H, 2010) Baptist Convention,” Southern Baptist Denominationalism, 2009 Convention Building Bridges Conference, 2007 Contributions to Books “Baptist Identity: Reflections on Beliefs and P “Convictional and Cooperative Leaders,” “The Doctrine of Scripture” in A Theology Trends in Baptist History,” Spring Lectures, Commencement Address, Dallas for the Church, edited by Daniel Akin Singapore Baptist Seminary, 2010 (Nashvile: B&H, 2007) Theological Seminary, 2008 “The History of Calvinism in the Southern “Marks of a Christian Hospitable Community,” Editorial Baptist Convention” in Calvinism: Convocation Address, Beeson Divinity Associate General Editor, New American A Southern Baptist Dialogue, edited by School, 2008 Commentary Series General Editor, Brad Waggoner and Ray Clendenen “Do Denominations Still Matter? A Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual (Nashville: B&H, 2008) Contemporary and Global Perspective,” Tradition Series (Crossway) “Foreword,” God in the Whirlwind: Stories Christ and Culture Lectures, California Consulting Editor, Christianity Today of Grace from Union University, by Tim Baptist University, 2009 Ellsworth (Nashville: B&H, 2008) “The Church: Providing Hope in Times Boards “A. H. Strong,” E. Y. Mullins,” “John of Suffering,” and “The Church: Exalting Board of Directors, Council for Christian A. Broadus,” W. T. Conner,” and A. T. God in an Age of Self-Interest,” Whiteside Colleges and Universities, Chair, 2007 Robertson” in The Encyclopedia of Christian Preaching Lectures, Erskine College and Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Civilization, edited by George T. Kurian Seminary, 2009 Consortium for Global Education, Chair, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010) “Toward a Global Evangelicalism in a Post- 2007-08 Senior Fellow/Board of Reference, “Foreword,” The Lord’s Supper, edited by denominational World,” Contemporary Wilberforce Forum/Prison Fellowship Thomas Schreiner and Matt Crawford Issues Lectures, Biola University, 2009 Board of Directors, Hammons Charitable (Nashville: B&H, 2010) “Networks, Parachurch and Special Foundation Board of Directors, Miller “Study Notes for Ephesians,” in Holman Purpose Groups: The Shaping of American Foundation Advisory Board, Birth Choice Christian Standard Study Bible Evangelicalism,” Talbot Seminary Lectures, Board of Advisors, LifeShape Foundation 2009 Board of Educational Advisors, GLG Life

(Nashville: B&H, 2010) Dockery, S. David “Cooperation and Conviction; Conviction “Salvation, Sovereignty, and Southern Tech Board of Directors, Association of and Cooperation” in A Great Commission Baptists,” Hobbs Lectures, Oklahoma Baptist Colleges and Universities Resurgence, edited by Charles Lawless Baptist University, 2009 he following pages include just a David Thomas Articles sample of the scholarly activities The Stories We Tell Our Children: How Our T Mark Bolyard faculty at Union University have engaged Past is Made Present in Children’s Literature (Royal Fireworks Press) “Integration of Teaching and Research in over the last three years. For more Revisited” and “Integrating Research into information about scholarship at Union, Jim Veneman a Large Teaching Laboratory.” Council on please visit “The Scholarship Project” at The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Undergraduate Research Quarterly www.uu.edu/scholarship. Tolkien, and Their Friends, with Harry L. Poe “A Suggestion for Chairs Looking for Time to (Zondervan) Do Research.” The Department Chair College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Scholarship A Greater Freedom: Stories of Faith from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Stories by Sara Jimmy Davis Books Horn (B&H) “Union University, Over 175 Years of Christian Education: Part 3.” Tennessee Baptist History Stephen Carls “West Tennessee College Part II: The Growing Contract with Pearson Education to Book Chapters Years” (with Pam Dennis). West Tennessee co-author a textbook on the history of 20th Patty Hamilton Historical Society Papers century Europe “Arabella Unbound: Wit, Judgment, and the Cure of Lennox’s Female Quixote” Bryan Dawson Web Drake in Masters of the Marketplace: British Women “Participation and Success Rates for Women Supplemental Mathematics for the Curious: Novelists of the 1750’s and Minorities in IPDA Debate.” Journal of Number Systems (Royal Fireworks Press) the International Public Debate Association Supplemental Mathematics for the Curious: Matt Lunsford Number Theory (Royal Fireworks Press) “From Calculus to Computers: Using the Sean Evans Last 200 Years of Mathematics History Updated Table. “Mean Turnover in the House Tim Ellsworth in the Classroom” edited by Amy of Representatives from Various Sources (as God in the Whirlwind: Stories of Grace from Shell-Gellasch & Dick Jardine (The a Proportion of Total House Membership) by the Tornado at Union University (B&H) Mathematical Association of America) Decade and Party System, 1789-2006” (with Gene Fant Stephen A. Borrelli and Brian C. Reed). God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Karen Martin Harold W. Stanley and Richard G. Niemi, Narrative (B&H) “Dynamics of Encounter: Sino-Cuban eds., Vital Statistics on American Politics Memory and Migrations in La isla de Sally Henrie los amores infinitos” inOrientalismos Gene Fant Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Manual (Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones “Real Tenure is Portable.” Chronicle of Higher (first edition) Universitarias, forthcoming) Education Fundamentals of Chemistry Laboratory Manual “In Loco Parentis Revisited.” Chronicle of (contributor of first edition) Shawn Okpebholo Higher Education Green Chemistry Laboratory Manual (eScience) Chapter in Composers on Composing for Band “Realities of the Decanal Suite.” Chronicle of (GIA Press) Higher Education Karen Martin Challenging Borders: The Demarcation of Space Jean Marie Walls Patty Hamilton in Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits Trilogy “Play and Display in the Musée de la “The Only Excellence of Falsehood: (Tamesis Books, forthcoming) civilisation” in Québec à l’aube du nouveau Rethinking Samuel Johnson’s Role in millénaire (Presses universitaires du Québec) Charlotte Lennox’s ‘The Female Quixote.’” Bobby Rogers forthcoming in Eighteenth Century Novel Paper Anniversary, winner of the 2009 Starrett “Migration.” Off the Coast Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming) faculty scholarshi p

Scott Huelin David Malone Michael Salazar “Peregrination, Hermeneutics, Hospitality.” “Catapult.” Do Justice: A Social Justice Road Map “Properties of a method for performing adaptive, Literature and Theology “Somewhat Unreal Communities.” Road Journal multilevel QM simulations of complex chemical reactions in the gas-phase” (with James Kirk Karen Martin M. Graham Guthrie and April D. Daigle). “Implementing a Chinese Character Browser “Mapping Ethnicity in Isabel Allende’s Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation Using a Topography-Preserving Map.” Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia.” “Low Temperature Oxidative Degradation of Advances in Neural Networks Grafemas PBX 9501 and its Components Determined “Vlady Kociancich” and “Syria Poletti.” via Molecular Weight Analysis” (with Judy LeForge Forthcoming in Latin American Women “State Colored Conventions of Tennessee, Shelley L. Thompson, Kenneth E. Laintz, Writers: An Encyclopedia Thomas O. Meyer, and Russell T. Pack). 1865-1866.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly “The House (of Memory) on Mango Street: “Alabama’s Colored Conventions and the Journal of Polymer Degradation and Stability Sandra Cisneros’s Counter-Poetics of “Aging of the Binder in Plastic-Bonded Exodus Movement: 1871-1879.” Space.” Forthcoming in Letras Femeninas Alabama Review Explosive PBX 9501 and Free-Radical Terry McRoberts Oxidation” (with Joel D. Kress, Debra A. Haifei Li “Healthy Technique for Every Student.” Wrobleski, D.A. Langlois, E.B. Orler, J. Russell, “A Rough Set Based Approach to Find Technical Principles of Tobias Matthay in and Denise K. Pauler). Trends in Polymer Learners’ Key Personality Attributes in an The Clavier Companion Degradation and Performance (American E-Learning Environment” (with Qinghua Chemical Society Symposium Series). Zheng and Xiyuan Wu). International John Netland “Experimental Study of the Oxidative Journal of Web-Based Learning and “From Cultural Alterity to the Habitations Degradation of PBX 9501 and its Teaching Technologies of Grace: The Evolving Moral Topography Components” (with Joel D. Kress, J. “Privacy Issues of Applying RFID in Retail of Endo’s Mudswamp Trope.” Christianity Michael Lightfoot, Bobby G. Russell, 63 Industry” (with Patrick C. K. Hung, Jia and Literature Wayne A. Rodin, and Loreli Woods). Zhang, and David Ahn). International Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce Gavin Richardson “On Automated e-Business Negotiations: “Numismatic Images of Atargatis: Keys to a Joshua Veltman Goal, Policy, Strategy, and Plans of Decision Parody.” The Celator: Journal of Ancient and “Syllable Placement and Metrical Hierarchy and Action” (with Stanley Y. W. Su and Medieval Coinage in Sixteenth-Century Motets.” Computing Herman Lam). Journal of Organizational “The ‘Barbarian/Hut’ Centenionalis in Musicology and Vergilian Iconography.” Vergilius Computing and Electronic Commerce Presentations “COSAR: Commitment-Oriented ‘Sense and “La Male Regle Thomas Hoccleve.” The Facts on Respond’ System for Microelectronic File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600 Keith Bates Manufacturing” (with Jun-Jang Jeng, Henry Troy Riggs “The Extension of Mainstream Fundamentalism: Chang, Jen-Yao Chung, Markus Ettl, and “Mathematics as Poesis: A Preliminary John R. Rice and the Southern Baptist Steve Buckley). International Journal of Project Report.” Proceedings of the Fifteenth Convention’s ‘Conservative Resurgence,’” Advanced Manufacturing Technology Conference of the Association of Christians in Tennessee Conference of Historians Terry Lindley the Mathematical Sciences Chris Blair “Tennessee Baptists and the Vietnam War.” Phillip Ryan “Convergent Journalism in Mass Tennessee Baptist History “Beyond Data Collection and Analysis: The Communications: Integration from Broader Impact of the Dissertation Process Numerous Perspectives,” Tennessee Andy Madison Communication Association Conference Supplemental material for an environmental on a Novice Researcher.” Working Papers in Composition & TESOL “Faithful Administrators: Case Studies” science textbook Visualizing Environmental (with Sheridan Barker), CCCU Faith-filled Science Leadership Department Chair Institute Janna Chance Teacher’s Association Meeting Terry Lindley “Fire, Brimstone, and Female Empowerment “Green Chemistry: An Interactive Laboratory “Evil Music from God? 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Faculty Scholarship “Arithmetic Sequences, Diophantine University of Memphis Undergraduate Race,” Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Equations and the Number of the Research Conference Terrorism: An Academic Conference on Beast,” Association of Christians in the Violence and Grace Mathematical Sciences Scott Huelin “Writing a Textbook for the Homeschool “Discernment of Spirits in the College Karen Martin Market,” Association of Christians in the Classroom,” Teaching, Learning and “Dynamics of Encounter: Sino-Cuban Mathematical Sciences Christian Practices Conference Memory and Migrations in La isla de los “The Violent Bear It Away as Theological amores infinitos,” Symposium on Asian Sean Evans Ethics,” Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Influence on Spanish and Spanish-American “Strategic Retirement in the Republican Terrorism Conference Literature and Film, Barcelona, Spain House of Representatives, 1995-2007,” “Dual Citizenship: The Politics of Belonging “La ficción Fidel: Writing Diaspora, Framing Southern Political Science Association to Church and Academy,” Lilly Fellows Identities in Contemporary Cuba,” “Strategic Retirement from the U.S. House Program Reunion Conference Kentucky Foreign Language Conference of Representatives, 1947-2004” (with “Mapping Ethnicity in Isabel Allende’s John W. Swain and Brian C. Reed), Randy Johnston Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia,” Southwestern Political Science Association “Alcohol Oxidation by Metallic Complexes Asociación Internacional de Literatura “Partisan Committee Opposition in the U.S. of p-Benzoquinones” (with Joey Easterling), Femenina Hispánica House of Representatives,” Southern National ACS Meeting Political Science Association David McClune Jim Kirk Guest lecturer on clarinet mouthpiece acoustics, Julie Glosson “Implementing a Chinese Character University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan Poster session on “Community Service Browser Using a Topography-Preserving University, Bowling Green State University, Through Spanish Translation Course,” Map,” International Symposium on Neural Florida State University, University of Texas American Council for the Teaching of Networks in Chengdu, China at Austin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Foreign Languages University of Akron, Baltimore School for the Judy LeForge Arts, Peabody Conservatory at John Hopkins Patty Hamilton “The 19th Century Civil Rights Movement: University, Arkansas Tech University, and “Miguel & Henry & Sam & Charlotte; Black Women and the Church,” Ohio University of Oklahoma or, The Contested Nature of ‘Genius’ ca. Valley History Conference 1753,” Southeastern American Society for Terry McRoberts Eighteenth-Century Studies Haifei Li “Timeless Matthay: Technical Principles for “History, Fiction, and True Love in LeAnne “A Method to Find Learner’s Key Today,” Festival of the American Matthay Howe’s Shell Shaker,” Tennessee Philological Characteristic in Web-Based Learning” (with Association for Piano Association Annual Meeting Xiyuan Wu, Qinghua Zheng and Guangdong Liu), 7th International Conference on Gavin Richardson Sally Henrie Web-based Learning, Zhejiang Normal “The Bursting of the Womb: Male Revenge “Using Green Experiments in High School University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China Fantasy and Hoccleve’s Tale of Jonathas,” Chemistry Courses,” Alabama Science 34th Annual Meeting: Southeastern faculty scholarshi p

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