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2018
- 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
- Seaver College business professor William Arnold examines strengthening college support services to support student transitioning to careers
- 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 David Humphrey addresses the neglect of students of color with the strategy of life coaching
- Seaver professor Javier Monzón authors a child-friendly adaptation of his most recent research article
- Graziadio professor Larry Bumgardner explores insider trading after the Salman ruling
- 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 Alicia Jessop develops a regulatory model for daily fantasy sports
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "Justice for All: Study Abroad Leads to Legal Reform in Uganda"-- the first-person essay by SOL's Jim Gash
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Recent Faculty Grant News from Research and Sponsored Programs, Featured in Wavefront
- 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
- Professor Donald Childress III scrutinizes the use of forum conveniens doctrine in transnational cases