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PUBLICATIONS

2024

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32. Barnes, M. E., *Aini, R. Q., Collins, J. P., Dunk, R. D. P., Holt, E. A., Jensen, J., Klein, J. R., *Misheva, T., Nadelson, L. S., Reiss, M. J., Romine, W. L., Shtulman, A., Townley, A. L., Wiles, J. R., Zheng, Y., & Brownell, S. E. (2024). Evaluating the current state of evolution acceptance instruments: A research coordination network meeting report. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 17(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-024-00194-0

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31. *Edwards, B. A., *Bowen, C., #Brownell, S. E., & #Barnes, M. E. (2024). Christian Student Experiences During Peer Interactions in Undergraduate Biology Courses. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 23(1), ar7. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-01-0020

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2023

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30. Bowen, C., *Summersill, A., Google, A., *Aadnes, M., & Barnes, M.E. (2023). Exploring Black Undergraduate Students’ Communication and Biology Education Experiences about COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccines During the Pandemic. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 22(4), ar42. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.22-11-0233

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29. Google, A., *Bowen, C., Brownell, S., & Barnes, M. E. (2023). Isolation, resilience, and faith: Experiences of Black Christian students in biology graduate programs. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21898

 

28. Misheva, T., Brownell, S. E., & Barnes, M. E. (2023). “It’s More Of A Me-Thing Than An Evolution Thing”: Exploring The Validity Of Evolution Acceptance Measures Using Student Interviews. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 22(4), ar41. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-01-0022

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27. Soneral, P. A. G., Brownell, S. E., & Barnes, M. E. (2023). Analysis of Religious Bias among Christian Students in Science. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12825

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2022

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26. Bowen, C. D., *Summersill, A. R., Jensen, J. L., Brownell, S. E., & Barnes, M. E. (2022). A Comparison of Online and In-Person Evolution Instruction That Includes Religious Cultural Competence. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 0(0), e00067-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00067-22

 

25. Barnes, M. E., Riley, R., Bowen, C., Cala, J., & Brownell, S. E. (2022). Community College Student Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 21(3), ar46. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-09-0229

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24. Couch, B., Wybren, E., de Araujo Bryan, M., Niravong, T., Jin, Y., Bowen, C., & Barnes, M. E. (2022). Exploring Undergraduate Biology Students’ Science Communication About COVID-19. Frontiers in Education, 7. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2022.859945

 

23. Morra, C. N., Adkins-Jablonsky, S. J., Barnes, M.E., Boling, T. W., Almehmi, S. E., Convers, B. J., ... & Raut, S. Expert-Led Module Improves Non-STEM Undergraduate Perception of and Willingness to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines. Frontiers in Public Health, 1213. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.816692

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22. Edwards, B. A., Roberts, J. A., Bowen, C., Brownell, S. E., & Barnes, M. E. (2022). An exploration of how gender, political affiliation, or religious identity is associated with comfort and perceptions of controversial topics in bioethics. Advances in Physiology Education, 46(2), 268–278. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00008.2022

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21. ^Barnes, M.E., ^Misheva, T. Supriya, K., Rutledge, M., Brownell, S.E. (2022). A Revised Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution: Introducing the MATE 2.0. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 21(1), ar10. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-05-0127 (^these authors contributed equally)

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2021

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20. Barnes, M. E., Roberts, J. A., Maas, S. A., & Brownell, S. E. (2021). Muslim undergraduate biology students’ evolution acceptance in the United States. PLOS ONE, 16(8), e0255588. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255588

 

19. Barnes, M. E., Supriya, K., Zheng, Y., Roberts, J. A., & Brownell, S. E. (2021). A New Measure of Students’ Perceived Conflict between Evolution and Religion (PCoRE) Is a Stronger Predictor of Evolution Acceptance than Understanding or Religiosity. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(3), ar42. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-02-0024

 

18. Grunspan, D. Z., Dunk, R. D. P., Barnes, M. E., Wiles, J. R., & Brownell, S. E. (2021). A comparison study of human examples vs. Non-human examples in an evolution lesson leads to differential impacts on student learning experiences in an introductory biology course. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 14(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-021-00148-w

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17. Barnes, M.E., Maas, S.A., Roberts, J.A. Brownell, S.E. (2021). Christianity as a Concealable Stigmatized Identity (CSI) among Biology Graduate Students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(1), ar9. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-09-0213

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2020

 

16. Barnes, M. E., Supriya, K., Dunlop, H. M., Hendrix, T. M., Sinatra, G. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2020). Relationships between the Religious Backgrounds and Evolution Acceptance of Black and Hispanic Biology Students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(4), ar59. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-10-0197.

 

15. Barnes, M. E., Dunlop, H. M., Sinatra, G. M., Hendrix, T. M., Zheng, Y., & Brownell, S. E. (2020). “Accepting Evolution Means You Can’t Believe in God”: Atheistic Perceptions of Evolution among College Biology Students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(2), ar21. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-05-0106

  • Commentary: Most downloaded paper in CBE LSE history.

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14. Cooper, K. M., Gin, L. E., Barnes, M. E., & Brownell, S. E. (2020). An Exploratory Study of Students with Depression in Undergraduate Research Experiences. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(2), ar19. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-11-0217

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13. Barnes, M.E., Truong, J.M., Grunspan, D.Z., Brownell, S.E. (2020). Are scientists biased against Christians? Exploring real and perceived Christian bias in academic biology. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226826​

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12. Barnes, M. E., Werner, R., Brownell, S.E. (2020). Differential impacts of a culturally competent genetics curriculum on student perceptions of conflict between religion and evolution at an evangelical Christian university. The American Biology Teacher. https://f328e7ed-ae78-427b-9dac-2a65f1920a7d.filesusr.com/ugd/98a1a0_da4a7c2ba7014729a2016b3a00c1f2ef.pdf.

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2019

 

11. Dunk, R. D., Barnes, M. E., Reiss, M. J., Alters, B., Asghar, A., Carter, B. E., ... & Mead, L. S. (2019). Evolution education is a complex landscape. Nature ecology & evolution, 3(3), 327. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0802-9.

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10. Barnes, M.E., *Dunlop, H.M., Holt, E., Brownell, S.E., (2019). Different Instruments used to Measure Acceptance of Evolution Leads to Different Research Findings. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 12(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-019-0096-z.

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9. Cooper, K.M., *Hendrix, T., Stephens, M.D., Cala, J.M., Mahrer, K., Krieg, A., Agloro, A.C.M., Badini, G.V., Barnes, M.E., Eledge, B., Jones, R., Lemon, E.C., Massimo, N.C., Martin, A., Ruberto, T., Simonson, K., Webb, E.A., Weaver, J., Zheng, Y., Brownell, S.E. (2018). To be funny or not to be funny: Gender differences in student perceptions of instructor humor in college science courses. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0201258. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201258.

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2018

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8. Barnes, M.E., & Brownell, S.E. (2018). A Call to Use Cultural Competence When Teaching Evolution to Religious College Students: Introducing Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education (ReCCEE). CBE-Life Sciences Education, 16 (4). https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-04-0062.

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7. ^Barnes, M.E., ^Truong, J.M., Brownell, S.E (2018). Can Six Minutes of Culturally Competent Evolution Education Reduce Students’ Level of Perceived Conflict between Evolution and Religion? The American Biology Teacher, 80(2), 106-115. (^these authors contributed equally) https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2018.80.2.106.

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2017

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6. Grunspan, D. Z., Nesse, R. M., Barnes, M. E., & Brownell, S.E. (2017). Core principles of evolutionary medicine: a Delphi study. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2018 (1), 13-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox025.

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5. Barnes, M. E., & Brownell, S. E. (2017). Experiences and Practices of Evolution Instructors at Christian Universities that can Inform Culturally Competent Evolution Education. Science Education, 101(6), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21317.

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4. Barnes, M. E., Evans, E. M., Hazel, A., Brownell, S. E., & Nesse, R. M. (2017). Teleological Reasoning, not Acceptance of Evolution, Impacts Students’ Ability to Learn Natural Selection. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 10(7). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-017-0070-6.

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3. Barnes, M. E., Elser, J., & Brownell, S. E. (2017). Impact of a Short Evolution Module on Students' Perceived Conflict between Religion and Evolution. The American Biology Teacher, 79(2), 104-111. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2017.79.2.104.

 

  • Commentary: Highlighted in Scientific American magazine, February 2017.

  • Commentary: American Biology Teacher, most read article, February-July, 2017

 

2. Barnes, M. E., Truong, J. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2017). Experiences of Judeo-Christian Students in Undergraduate Biology. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 16(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-04-0153.

 

  • Commentary: CBE Life Sciences Education: 2nd most read article, April 2017.​

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2016

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1. Barnes, M. E., & Brownell, S. E. (2016). Practices and Perspectives of College Instructors on Addressing Religious Beliefs When Teaching Evolution. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 15(2), 18. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.15-11-0243.

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  • Commentary: Highlighted in Scientific American magazine, August 2018

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