Rebecca Boggs Roberts to Give 19th Amendment Centennial Lecture
Pepperdine Libraries and Seaver College’s Social Science Division are hosting an online lecture from author and curator Rebecca Boggs Roberts on August 19 at 4:30 PM PDT. The lecture will celebrate the...
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Ed Larson on the 2020 Election | The Bulwark
On August 13, the Bulwark featured the latest op-ed from Pepperdine University professor of history Ed Larson. The piece, titled "What if Trump Declared an Election Emergency," is one of many articles...
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Pepperdine University Remembers the Life and Legacy of Thomas H. Olbricht
Pepperdine University remembers the life and legacy of Thomas H. Olbricht, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion, renowned scholar and author, and influential Churches of Christ leader, who...
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First Wave Ambassadors Support First-Gen Students Through Remote Learning in...
As fall 2020 classes began on August 17, the second cohort of First Wave Ambassadors were ready to support their fellow first-generation college students. The new 2020 ambassadors—juniors Jerry...
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Rick Marrs to Conclude Tenure as Pepperdine University Provost in 2021
Rick R. Marrs, who has served Pepperdine University as provost and chief academic officer since 2014, will conclude his tenure at the close of the 2020–2021 academic year. At the conclusion of his...
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Nicholas Zola's Latest Book Informs His New Testament Classrooms
In his recent edited collection The Gospel of Tatian: Exploring the Nature and Text of the Diatessaron, Seaver College associate professor of religion Nicholas Zola examines the benefits and losses of...
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George Carlsen Begins Appointment as Divisional Dean of International Studies...
In August 2020, George Carlsen began his appointment as the new divisional dean of the International Studies and Languages Division. Carlsen is succeeding Mike Sugimoto who served as the interim...
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Rebecca Kim Receives Lilly Endowment Grant for National Campus Ministry Research
The Lilly Endowment awarded Rebecca Kim, Frank R. Seaver Chair of Social Science and professor of sociology at Seaver College, with a three-year grant to perform research on the current state of...
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Pepperdine University Honors 9/11 Victims with 13th Annual Waves of Flags...
For the 13th consecutive year, Pepperdine University will commemorate the lives lost in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, with the Waves of Flags display at Alumni Park on the Malibu campus. In...
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Sara Barton Publishes Spiritual Formation Study in Ministry Journal
University Chaplain Sara Barton publishes her study “Holistic University Spiritual Formation and Ecclesial Relationships” in the 2020 volume of Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry....
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Pepperdine Maintains Standing as Top 50 University in 2021 U.S. News & World...
Pepperdine University has once again been named one of the top 50 universities in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Pepperdine is ranked 49 out of 389 national...
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Pepperdine Theatre Department to Present First-Year Showcase The Human Touch
The Seaver College Theatre Department will present the first-year showcase The Human Touch on the Zoom platform on Friday, September 18, at 7:30 PM PDT and on Saturday, September 19, at 2 PM PDT. The...
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Paul Contino Publishes Study of The Brothers Karamazov
In August, Cascade Books published Pepperdine professor Paul J. Contino’s Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs, a close study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel The...
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Helen Holmlund to Present at First SCCUR Saturday
Seaver College assistant professor of biology Helen Holmlund will present at the first of Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research’s (SCCUR) new virtual events called SCCUR Saturdays...
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Diana Martinez Analyzes Visual Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-ins
Seaver College assistant professor of communication Diana Martínez published her essay, “Visualizing a Civil Rights Archive: Images of the Sit-in at the Counter and Other Objects,” in the June 2020...
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Pepperdine Theatre Department Presents Virtual Performance of Polar Bears,...
The Seaver College Theatre Department will present a virtual performance of Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids from L.A.-based playwright Vincent Terrell Durham. The three...
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Bryant Crubaugh on the Unexpected Impacts of Neighborhood Development
This summer Seaver College assistant professor of sociology Bryant Crubaugh published his study, "Neighborhood Development Organizations and Neighborhood Disadvantage: Race, Resources, and Inequality...
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A Cappella Group Won by One Announces Digital Tour Dates
Throughout October and November 2020, Won by One, Pepperdine University’s six-member a cappella group of undergraduate students, will perform 14 online concerts at a variety of churches across the...
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Three Seaver College faculty members—associate professor of art Gretchen Batcheller, associate professor of sports medicine Hunter Paris, and Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Communication Roslyn...
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Co-founders of Mine the Gap to Discuss Advancing Gender Inclusivity in Global...
On Wednesday, October 21 at 12 PM PT, the Women in International Speaker Series will host a virtual panel discussion with Seaver College alumna Jessica Grounds (’03) and Kristin Haffert on advancing...
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