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2019
- Dr. Eric Hamilton, Danielle P. Espinoza, Seung B. Lee, and Lauren Van Tress of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology publish their article, "Examining the Dynamic of Participation Level on Group Contribution in a Global, STEM-Focused Digital Makerspace Community."
- Pepperdine GSEP Scholarship without Borders publishes their Booklet of Scholarly Work with you, featuring the scholarship and research collaboration of our distinguished faculties, students, alumni, and esteemed partners.
- Dr. Jennifer A. T. Smith reviews, "Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church."
- Dr. P. Matthew Joyner and Alum, Rachel White, publish, "A guided‐inquiry investigation of bacterial membrane potential using flow cytometry for an undergraduate biochemistry laboratory course."
- Pepperdine Alum, Marjorie Jones contributes to studying, "The relationship between ventricular volume and whole‐brain irradiation dose in central nervous system germ cell tumors."
- Khanh Bui of the Seaver College Social Science Department researches "Cross-Lagged Relationships Between Academic Achievement and Perceived Parental Educational Expectations."
- Roshwanda A. Derrick analyzes Junot Díaz's most recent works by using Muysken's typology of code-switching to illustrate the types of language mixing devices present in the two texts.
- Cristel Russell examines whether posing questions that create a stress state in respondents biases subsequent reporting of mental health (MH) symptomology.
- Steven Rouse of the Social Science Department evaluates "Reliability of MTurk Data From Masters and Workers."
- Dr. Kevin Iga publishes, "THE SIGNED MONODROMY GROUP OF AN ADINKRA"
- Cristina Gibson explores "Building team effectiveness through adaptation: Team knowledge and implicit and explicit coordination"
- Dr. Rodney Honeycutt analyzes Mitochondrial DNA variation of the ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).
- Dr. Charles Kerns of the Graziadio Business School presents "Leadership Presence at Work: A Practice – Oriented Framework."
- Dr. Tuan Hoang publishes, "The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977"
- Brian Newman of the Seaver College Social Science Division researches Bias Against High‐Income Congressional Candidates.
- Sarah Fischbach, Professor of Marketing, explores the impact of ethics and ad trust.
- Graziadio Professor Cristel Russell tests a model anchored in social-exchange theory and drawing on uses and gratifications theory, using data from a survey of Facebook users in France.
- Alicia Jessop evaluates the effectiveness of current legal and NCAA procedures regulating sport agents.
- Dr. Eric Hamilton, Danielle Espino, and Seung Bok Lee of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology are published in the Conference Proceedings Volume 2 of "A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning."
- Dr. Cristel Russell researches body composition and physical fitness tests among US Army soldiers.
- Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, "'And Lo, As Luke Sets Down for Us': Dante's Re-Imagining of the Emmaus Story in Purgatorio XXIX–XXXIII," Religions 10.5 (2019).
- Elizabeth Yomantas, "Professional Development in the Digital Age," Christian Educators Journal 58:3 (2019).
- Dr. John Peterson examines Gendered Homecomings in A River Runs Through It.
- Seaver College student, Audrey Fontes, was awarded a grant from the Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society (SMBAS) to aid her continual research on the behavioral ecology of the invasive crayfish and its minuscule companion the ostracod.
- Student Researchers Find Critical Changes in Landscape after Woolsey Fire.
- Dr. Stephen Davis uses mixed methods including high resolution micro‐computed tomography, light microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy to understand and characterize the dynamics of tissue desiccation and rehydration in petioles of intact desiccation-tolerant ferns.
- Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis explores the cultural context of trauma recovery in traditionally underserved populations.
- The Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) publishes their Scholarship without Borders Booklet of Scholarly Work featuring the scholarship and research collaboration of our distinguished faculties, students, alumni, and esteemed partners.
- Dr. Jennifer Harriger highlights the importance of continued efforts to encourage exposure to and acceptance of diverse body shapes and sizes in young children.
- Jane Ganske analyzes the Role of Gas-Phase Halogen Bonding in Ambient Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry Utilizing Iodine.
- Cynthia Clegg reviews John Willinksy's work, "The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke."
- Dr. Rebecca Kim provides a global history of American evangelicals in her essay, "Global American Evangelicals? The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals."
- Dr. Karen Martin monitors California grunion population.
- Dr. David Holmes examines the ethos of Black women in the Film, "Selma" (dir. Ava DuVernay, 2014).
- GSEP professor, Dr. David Levy analyzes the "Self-Esteem" enigma.
- Seaver College professor, Dr. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, suggests that Dante's journey through the earthly paradise in the Purgatorio is a figural representation of the journey of Cleopas and the unnamed disciple on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24.
- Drs. Charla Griffy-Brown and Mark Chun of the Graziadio Business School pose the question, "How do we secure the Internet of Things (IoT) environment?"
- Levon Goukasian of Seaver College's Business Administration division examines the price efficiency of acquirer stocks involved in mergers and acquisitions.
- The April 2019 Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research featuring Seaver Communication Student scholarship is available.
- Dr. Tuan Hoang historicizes the Vietnamese American Catholic experience.
- Seaver Fine Arts professor Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank does digital art history in a Pre-Columbian art survey class.
- Dr. Charles Kerns offers an approach to help enhance a managerial leader's effectiveness when managing team dynamics and teamwork in workplace settings.
- Graziadio faculty member Dr. Owen Hall Jr. highlights the growing opportunities for using AI in detecting students at risk and outlining effective intervention strategies.
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $100,000 grant to Pepperdine's Graduate School of Education and Psychology, for a critical research workshop on next-generation science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning environments.
- More information here.
- Cyndia Susan Clegg delves into Shakespeare's use of Religion and the Afterlife.
- Dr. Kendra Killpatrick studies the Statistics on Linear Chord Diagrams.
- Ray M. Valadez and David M. Smith study the relationship between property taxes and home values in the U.S.
- Dr. Babette Boliek of the Pepperdine School of Law examines historically recurring political themes using the story of the 1927 Radio Act.
- Seaver professor of public relations, Dr. Klive Oh, investigates the effects of fear of isolation (FOI) on political content consumption and creation in the context of online communication.
- Dr. Charles Kerns offers a six-phase leader-driven framework that helps a leader more fully understand the process of leading thought leadership, including managing the relevant components.
- Professor Karen Martin along with students Ozie Le Sage and Danilo Martinez explore the obstacles that grunion face to maintain a healthy population on California's beaches.
- GSEP Doctoral students Denise Calhoun and Seung Bok Lee analyze the effect of computer usage on the cognitive capabilities of individuals aged 50 and older in the United States.
- Social Science professor, Dr. Rebecca Kim, examines what it means for African American and Asian American pastors to head multiracial churches.
- Dr. Charles Kerns introduces a practice-oriented framework is provided to help leaders arrive at a coherent formulation of who they are as leaders based upon relevant leadership experiences across their life span.
- Garrett Pendergraft creates a case study concerning Controversy Over Gender Differences and Free Speech at Google.
- Dr. Loan Kim examines the association between maternal perceptions of self-weight and child weight status and milk consumption behavior of Hispanic WIC participants.
2018
- John Peterson, "Wrestling with 'Half Gods': Biblical Discourse in Mary Austin's The Ford," Christianity & Literature 67.4 (2018).
- Carrie Wall (with B. Musetti), "Beyond Teaching English: Embracing a Holistic Approach to Supporting English Learner Students and Their Families," The California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) Journal 30:2 (2018).
- Cindy Miller-Perrin and Steven Rouse explore Factors Associated With Academic Nonprescribed Stimulant Use Among College Students.
- Biology Professor Karen L.M. Martin investigates Patterns of Fish Reproduction at the Interface between Air and Water.
- GSEP Professor Dr. Shelly Harrell explores Soulfulness as an Orientation to Contemplative Practice: Culture, Liberation, and Mindful Awareness.
- Cameron Sublett of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology examines high school graduation rates in California.
- Dr. Luisa Blanco researches "Promoting Retirement Savings with Social Media."
- Dr. Amy Tuttle conducted a study that used a social constructionist life course perspective to understand how second generation Korean American parents locate themselves in the sociopolitical context and draw on these intergenerational experiences to construct a parenting ideology.
- Team of Chemistry department faculty members, Reile M. Slattery, Amanda E. Stahl, Kelsey R. Brereton, David B. Green, and Joseph M. Fritsch study Ring opening polymerization and copolymerization of L‐lactide and ɛ‐caprolactone by bis‐ligated magnesium complexes.
- Richard C. Walton, Abraham Park, Maretno A. Harjoto of the Graziadio School of Business examine the causes of annual variation in CEO optimism.
- Graziadio Business Professor of Accounting and Finance, Maretno Harjoto, studies the factors that influence companies to obtain the B corporation certification.
- Seaver Fine Arts Professor Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank's new book, "Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain" focuses on the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain.
- Graziadio Professors Stephen Rapier, Doreen Shanahan, Nancy Dodd, and School of Law Professor, Jeffrey Baker, publish a case that questions what ethical duties and obligations a business owes to its customers and other stakeholders.
- Seaver Political Science Professor Brian Newman explores the racial consequences of electoral incentives to move towards the median voter.
- Adel C. Najidowski and Jesse A. Fullen evaluate procedures for teaching three children diagnosed with autism, spectrum disorder the perspective-taking component skill of tacting what others are sensing across all five senses.
- Steve Rouse, Seaver psychology professor, publishes The Development and Preliminary Validation of the Bible Verse Selection Task as a Measure of Christian Fundamentalism.
- Graziadio faculty Terri D. Egan, PhD and Julie A. Chesley, PhD approach leadership in a smart machine age.
- Seaver social science professor Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso examines potential predictors and outcomes of servant leadership among beginning leaders with self-reported and other-reported data.
- Gary Galles and Robert Sexton publish research that clarifies the analysis, as well as offering several benefits for economic instruction.
- Seaver faculty member, Courtney Davis, co-authors a book to develop the first mathematical models for an argasid tick to explore the dynamics and identify knowledge gaps of these poorly studied ticks.
- Graziadio professor Maretno Agus Harjoto examines the relationship between the nationality and educational background diversity of directors serving on corporate boards and the firms' corporate social performance (CSP).
- Seaver professors Gretchen Batcheller and Jane Reodeheffer contribute their essay, Musing Dante and Divining Milton A Collaboration Modeled on The Saint John's Bible Project in the Saint John's Bible and it's Tradition Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century
- Genetic evidence indicates ecological divergence rather than geographic barriers structure Florida fox squirrels
- Art history professor, Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank describes the development of an Omeka student project in a Pre-Columbian art history survey class that also acquaints students with digital art history (DAH)
- Seaver professor of biology, Lee Kats, delves into the effects of invading species on their environments
- Graziadio professor, Maretno Harjoto examines the impact of geographic locality, product market competitions, and
owners' demographic characteristics on a firm's decision to be a certified B Corporation - GSEP professor, Kfir Mordechay, explores the effect of gentrification on neighborhoods and cities
- Collaborative research assessing the effects of non-native crayfish on mosquito survival includes Seaver faculty and student authors
- Professor Carrie Wall's (Seaver College) longitudinal investigation of changes in teachers' educational beliefs
- Professor John Mooney (Graziadio School of Business) studies the importance of social influence in initial adoption of farmers' mobile technology adoption
- Tanya Cooper (School of Law) receives Pepperdine research grants and Oxford fellowship
- Seaver College professors Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin explores why the US parents support physical punishment of children
- Graziadio professor Kurt Motamedi examines the importance of contextual competence in leadership during unpredictable conditions
- Seaver professor Kelle Marshall informs research practices through pedagogical theory by conducting focus groups with adolescents
- Graziadio professor Dongshin Kim researches the detection and prediction of house price bubbles using evidence from Sejong in South Korea
- Seaver professor Steven Rouse introduces a special issue of Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research on Open Science Practices
- School of Law professor Danny DeWalt shares practical lessons learned while building a required course for professional identity formation
- Seaver professor Kelle Keating Marshall examines four French immersion teachers' perspectives on the relationship between language and culture and on their roles as intercultural mediators in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially bilingual province
- Graziadio professor Demos Vardiabasis studies the effect of both economic and demographic factors on restaurant franchising in the Western United States
- Payson librarian Marc Vinyard surveys library use among students studying abroad
- Seaver student Shirley Huang presents at the at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference
- Seaver professor Javier Monzón authors a child-friendly adaptation of his most recent research article
- Seaver professors and students collaborate to publish the first report of Botryosphaeria dothidea causing stem canker and plant death in Malosma laurina in Southern California
- Graziadio professor Maretno Harjoto examines board diversity and corporate investment oversight
- Seaver student Tehya Braun presents at the Center for Women in Leadership's Annual Board Meeting
- Graziadio professor Owen Hall describes how management education is responding to the business community's call for web-savvy, problem-solving graduates
- School of Public Policy professor Luisa Blanco examines whether oil really curses democracy
- Seaver professor Bryant Crubaugh analyzes two forms of civic associations and their disparate effects on poverty and poverty segregation
- Seaver professor Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso considers intellectual humility's links to religion and spirituality and the role of authoritarianism
- Graziadio professor Andreas Simon studies the issuance and informativeness of management long-term earnings growth forecasts
- Seaver professor Jennifer Harriger explores obligatory exercise and coping in treatment-seeking women with poor body image
- Seaver professor Klive Oh examines the 2017 South Korean presidential election to discover who creates the bandwagon
- School of Public Policy professor Luisa Blanco understands the racial/ethnic gap in bank account ownership among older adults
- Seaver student Mariama Furman and professors Nataria Joseph and Cindy Miller-Perrin study associations between coping strategies, perceived stress, and health indicators
- School of Law student Deborah Cantrell celebrates mundane conflict
- Seaver professor Dongshin Kim examines NAV premiums and REIT property transactions
- Seaver professors David Green and Joseph Fritsch explore synthesis and structures of aluminum ion-pair complexes that act as L-and racemic-lactide ring opening polymerization initiators
- School of Law student Jessica Becerra considers the possibility of using alternative dispute resolution for election law disputes
- Seaver student Zachary Bieganowski and professor Steven Rouse present on personality related to social media use at the 2018 Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- School of Law student Melissa María Valdez García finds the path towards defining "investment" in ICSID investor-state arbitrations
- Seaver professor Candice Ortbals analyzes gender in relation to political violence
- Seaver professor Javier Monzón considers metrics of population status for long-lived territorial birds
- Graziadio professors Nelson Granados and John Mooney offer empirical analysis of movie release windows
- Seaver professor Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank examines doing digital art history in a Pre-Columbian art survey class
- Seaver professor Joel Fetzer analyzes realistic group conflict and voting for the 2002 Aboriginal Treaty Negotiations Referendum in British Columbia
- Graziadio professor Jaclyn Margolis examines the roles of psychological empowerment and emotional exhaustion in ethical leadership and employee success
- Seaver professor Javier Monzón identifies novel viruses in Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, and Ixodes scapularis ticks
2017
- Carrie Wall, "Bridging Understanding between Preservice Teachers and Diverse Students through Service-Learning," Teaching Education 28.2 (2017)
- Seaver professors Gary Bucciarelli and Lee Kats analyze how the rainbow trout is affecting the occupancy of native amphibians in Patagonia
- GSEP professor Eric Hamilton examines digitizing mathematical symbolism through pen and touch technology
- Seaver professors Susan Helm and David Green, along with students Morgan Blayney, Taylor Whited, Sen Lin, and Semira Kern, study the deleterious effects of chronic folate deficiency in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome
- Graziadio professor Kevin Groves offers winning strategies for building a sustainable leadership pipeline through talent management and succession planning
- Seaver professor Leslie Kreiner Wilson considers Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, and the Code
- GSEP professor Cameron Sublett investigates how applied STEM coursework relates to mathematics and science self-efficacy among high school students
- Seaver professor Jason Blakely explores why political science is an ethical issue
- Seaver professor Elizabeth Krumrei Mancuso examines the mental health of Netherlands women working in the sex service industry
- Seaver Italian professor Fiona Stewart analyzes violence and hope, image and word in Rossellini's Roma citta aperta
- Graduate School of Public Policy Student Marina Harden studies Blackwater USA's civilian soldiers fighting in the War on Terror
- Seaver philosophy professor Tomás Bogardus and student Mallorie Urban explore whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God
- School of Law professor Robert Anderson IV examines how Merger Agreements, one of the most economically significant areas of legal practice, has evolved so poorly
- Seaver professor John Mann and student Michael Hernandez explore the recently discovered and astounding properties of semiconductors when isolated in extremely thin 2D sheets
- GSEP professor Thema Bryant-Davis analyzes how racism and ethnic bias continue to prohibit those enslaved to human trafficking
- GSBM professor Maretno Agus Harjoto examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and degrees of operating and financial leverage
2016
- Joi Carr, "'To Be Actually Honest': An Interview with Reginald Hudlin, Writer, Producer, Director, and Executive." Black Camera 7.2 (2016).
- Tuan Hoang, "From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Historicizing Vietnamese Diasporic Anticommunism," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 11:2 (2016).
- Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Olabisi Named Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow
- A biologist's, Seaver's Javier Monzón, encounter with a wild animal leads to the exploration of a species new to New York City
- Seaver Professor Paul Contino Publishes Research on "Geoffrey Hill's "Hard-Won Affirmation"
- Eric Hamilton's paper reports exploratory work that investigates inter-generational collaboration between students and teachers in a digitized version of the maker movement
- William Ota Presents Research at Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR)
2015
- James Thomas, "'My Heart Laid Bare': Poe's Poetic Autobiography Revealed in Verse and Embedded in Prose." The Edgar Allan Poe Review 16 (2015).
- Seaver professor Cindy Miller-Perrin examines the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning
- Doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Roxana Zarrabi examines how gratitude can be birthed from trauma
- Sociology professor Rebecca Kim writes on the history of Korean missionaries in the United States
- Graduate Business School professor Andreas Simon examines long term growth forecasts and their reflected profitability of stock recommendations
- Professor Darren Good studies how mindfulness at work, or the lack thereof, impacts key workplace outcomes
- Professor of Sports Medicine Jeffrey Jasperse studies how the body's position affects hyperemia, an excess blood in the vasculature
- School of Law professor Carol A. Chase examines the Supreme Court's ruling in Florida v. Jardines and its ramifications on the use of narcotics detecting dogs in law enforcement
- School of Public Policy student Todd Royal investigates the US' aging nuclear arsenal and its call for modernization
- School of Law professor Thomas J. Stipanowich outlines the evolution of international mediation and its need for increased dialogue and deliberation
- Student Shirley Pakdaman analyzes the ethics of clinical supervision in the training of mental health professionals
- Professor Kevin Groves displays a multidimensional model and measure to study linear and nonlinear thinking
2014
- Leslie Wilson Kreiner, "The Education of Frances Marion and Irving Thalberg: Censorship, Development, and Distribution at MGM, 1927-1930." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31.2 (2014).
- Ed Larson, "The Red Dawn of Geoengineering: The First Steps toward an Effective Governance for Stratospheric Injections." Duke Law & Technology Review 14 (2016).
- Nicole Nakamatsu Presents Research at National Park Service Symposium
- Drones and Aerial Surveillance: SOL professor Gregory McNeal's paper part of a Brookings series focused on the future of civilian robots
- Seaver distinguished professor Dan Caldwell's article addresses the effects of jet lag and its impact on modern diplomacy
- SPP's Luisa Blanco publishes "Study on Crime and Investment in Latin American and the Caribbean" with USAID.
- "Walking" Fish: Biologist Karen Martin's Featured Video and Research on Grunions for National Geographic
- Stella Erbes, Milt Shatzer, and Robert Williams Featured in eCampus News
- Healing History: GSEP Professor Daryl Rowe Seeks the Emotional Emancipation of African Americans
- The Nexus of Vocation and Calling: Graziadio School Professor Ed Rockey Seeks Meaning in his Work
- Ronald Batchelder Receives the Duncan Black Prize for the Best Paper in Public Choice
- Freddy Vasquez Presents "The Myth About Spanish Conquest" at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research
- Advertising in the Digital Age: Ginger Rosenkrans Receives Grants to Explore Mobile and Social Media Ad Effectiveness
- Seaver Students and Professors Collaborate on an Interdisciplinary Study of Prostitution
- Professor David Holmes Wins the Theresa Enos Anniversary Award for his Essay in Rhetoric Review
- Faculty-Student Publication by Seaver's Dr. Tomás Bogardus and Chad Marxen
- Thomas J. Stipanowich's Reflections on Nelson Mandela in "A Legacy of Reconciliation"
2013
- Buyer Beware: Graziadio School Professor Nelson Granados Uncovers How New Information Changes the Online Retail Space
- A Bit of History Repeating: Two scholars and a Student Explore Why Looking Back Helps Move Public Policy Forward
- Rodney L. Honeycutt's Collaborative Research on Cichlid Fishes in the Neotropics
- Pepperdine Seaver Students Sweep Sigma Tau Delta's Annual Conference
- Victoria's Web: Victoria Lekson's Keck Scholarship and Research on the Web Strength of Native Malibu Spiders
- Religion, Nationalism, and Co-authors Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper
- Undergraduate Shiloh Rainwater Publishes Research on "China's Arctic Strategy"
- Exploring "God, Freedom, and Human Dignity" with Ronald Highfield
- Brain in Motion: GSEP Professor Louis Cozolino Reveals How Our Brains and Relationships Shape How We Learn
2012
- Seaver professor of mathematics Kendra Killpatrick examines the parity of certain coefficients of Catalan Numbers
- GSBM professor Nelson Granados studies how á la carte pricing and demand-based price elasticity has affected air travel industries
- Professor Kindalee Pfremmer DeLong outlines Biblical childbearing imagery in the book of Ezra
- School of Law Adjunct Publications finds success in both fiction and nonfiction markets
- Professor Luisa Blanco examines competition between tax havens
- Professor Lee Kats demonstrates that ultraviolet radiation affects behavior of poison dart frogs
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