Academics

Meet the Faculty

Laurie Nelson
Associate Professor of Sports Medicine

Division: Natural Science Division
Office: Rockwell Academic Center (RAC) 110
Phone: (310) 506-4366
E-mail: laurie.nelson@pepperdine.edu

• B.S., Physical Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969
• M.S., Exercise Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
• Ph.D., Athletic Administration, University of Southern California, 1979

Courses:

• Anatomy and physiology
• Kinesiology
• Exercise Physiology
• Human anatomy
• Freshman seminar

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• Faculty Member of the Year Award, 1994
• Association of Biologists Using Computing
• American College of Sports Medicine
• Association of Fitness Directors in Business and Industry
• California Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation
• American College of Sports Medicine
• Ironman Triathalon Conference in Kona, Hawaii, October 1985
• Women in Sport

Academic Interests:

• "The Effects of Age on Self-concept and Motivation in Female and Male Ironman Triathletes," with Cathy Hamano (Seaver student), Fall 1988
• The Psychological Effects on Aerobic dancing and Running in College Students, with Kamie Palmer-Guiessman, Winter 1987
• Training Responses to Two and Three Days per Week Aerobic Dance and Jogging Programs in College Students, Winter 1987

Selected Works:

• Dissertation: "A Comparison of AIAW and NCAA Organizational Variability"
• Thesis: "Immobilization in Guinea Pig Skeletal Muscle"
• Excuses, Excuses by Carol Jacobs with Laurie Nelson, Shape, 199
• "Getting Strong," Shape, November 1981, pp. 83-87
• AIAW Update, Women's Sports, February, 1980, p. 7