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The fourth annual Pepperdine Math Day was held on Saturday, October 2, 2010, on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu. The primary purposes of this annual event are to promote interest and reward excellence in mathematics and science, as well as to increase the interaction between Pepperdine and our local Southern California high school faculty and students. Approximately 200 students and accompanying faculty and parents from 17 Southern California schools were in attendance.
See full story at: http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/dstrong/MathDay/MathDay2010/index.html
Holden MacRae, professor of sports medicine, is a vision of fitness. As he greets you with his thick South African accent and welcomes you into his office, you'll see the bike he rides to the Pepperdine campus several days a week. In his years conducting research on exercise science, he has learned a thing or two about staying hydrated.
In September of 2009, MacRae was approached by CamelBak Products to do research on how the type of bottle a consumer is using affects how much liquid they consume. "They'd been getting anecdotal evidence that people were drinking more water out of their Better Bottles ®, compared to some of the other bottles that are commercially available," he explains.
The marketing and research executives at CamelBak wanted proof, but MacRae had a different interest. "For me, it's both a physiological interest —if you exercise, hydration is critical, not only for performing well while you are exercising, but for recovery so that you can do the next session optimally. The other interest is, I would like to see these things disappear completely from being made available to consumers," he says, holding up a typical one-time-use, disposable water bottle. "This is one of the most wasteful things we do in this country. They toxify the landfills, and if you leave them in the sun, they leech chemicals into the water that are very dangerous to the body."
For full story click on link below:
http://www.pepperdine.edu/pr/stories/2010/may/holden-macrae-operation-hydration.htm
Professor Rodney Honeycutt honored in BioMed Central March 2010 Editorial Board Newsletter
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Dr. Karen Martin’s research on grunions was published in the March/April 2010 issue of the Westlake Malibu Lifestyle Magazine
An article about Professor Cooker Perkins' research was published in the Ventura County Star on March 13, 2010
Doctors try to discover why more Latinos are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetesLatinas more at riskLatinas face an even greater burden when it comes to obesity and diabetes. In 2007, 73 percent of Mexican American women in the U.S. were obese or overweight as compared with 61.6 percent of non-Latino females, according to The Office of Minority Health. And Latinas are more prone to develop Type 2 diabetes. Latinas are especially at risk for developing gestational diabetes, according to the CDC. And if they do, they are then more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes later on. Pepperdine University researcher Cooker Perkins is particularly interested in what happens to Latinas during pregnancy and up to a year postpartum. Through questionnaires, blood panels and other tests, she hopes to find out why they are more likely to develop gestational diabetes. “We are trying to understand better the differences between these groups,” Perkins said. “We want to ask them, what are your sleep patterns, are you breast-feeding, are you active? What is your basal metabolic rate, your blood profile?” Latino families tend to be larger, which means more pregnancies for Latinas and more risk of being overweight and getting diabetes. “There’s a biological plausible link between pregnancies, having more children and potentially putting yourself at risk for being overweight,” Perkins said. Perkins’ hope is to isolate causes for weight gain before and after pregnancy and develop a way to intercede. Public Health officials say they will make diabetes detection and management a priority this year, and are developing workshops to help. For the full story click on the link below: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/mar/13/type-2-diabetes-in-countys-latino-population-in/ Check out the March 28, 2010, article, "Grunion runs coming to the sand," on the orangecounty.com website:
http://beach.freedomblogging.com/2010/03/28/grunion-runs-coming-to-the-sand/22205/ Dr. Karen Martin’s research on grunions was published in the Orange County Register on March 29, 2010
The funny little fish can be seen spawning on the sand
You know that saying: It's like a fish out of water? That's the perfect description for the grunion runs – a phenomenon that happens only here, during select months, on certain days, at specific times. “The whole idea of a fish out of water is paradoxical, it's fascinating,” said Pepperdine biology professor Karen Martin, an expert on the creatures. And what these small fish do when they get out of the water and onto the sand; well, let's just say it's intimate. The grunions pick a wave to surf onto the sand, and females lay their eggs in a hole. Then the males are washed up, and do their thing on the eggs – and that's how baby grunions are made! The grunions are found only along the coast in Southern California and northern Baja. They come up on shore to lay eggs only during spring and summer months. The eggs stay in the ground for about two weeks before hatching. Other than what they do during their mating, not much is known about the grunion. It's still unknown just where they go the rest of the time out at sea. They are difficult to study because they scare easily by flashlights, making accurate assessments of their routines possibly tainted. For full article click on link below: http://www.ocregister.com/sports/grunion-67945-ocprint-grunions-fish.html An article about Dr. Steve Davis' research was published in the Ventura County Star on January 30, 2010
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Christa Zofcin ('97, '97, MBA '00, JD '01) is currently the head of business affairs at United Artists.
