Winter 2023
Volume 15 | Issue 1
![City skyline at sunset](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/tech-and-the-city-thumb-360x360.jpg)
Pepperdine experts offer their thoughts on how technology can—and can’t—improve the urban experience
![Graphic of man standing on a neverending path](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/the-curiosity-commitment-thumb-360x360.jpg)
Across industries, founders are innovating in extraordinary ways simply by asking, “What’s the problem?”
Articles
![Pepperdine University student-athletes](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/equal-footing-thumb-360x360.jpg)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, female student-athletes past and present share how they have been shaped by Pepperdine Athletics
![people huddled in Uganda](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/a-study-in-context-thumb-360x360.jpg)
Far from home, Seaver College students experience life in a different context through a new pilot program in Uganda
![A child and an adult on bicycles silhouetted against a desert sunset](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/more-than-a-story-thumb-360x360.jpg)
An Academy Award–winning alumnus and a screen arts professor lead two Pepperdine students on a documentary project in purposeful storytelling
![A watercolor illustration of Earth](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/how-to-run-the-world-thumb-360x360.jpg)
Foreign policy scholar Kiron Skinner brings her commitment to the value of a liberal arts education to the School of Public Policy
![Pepperdine alumnus Mike Norfleet (’15, MA ’17, PsyD ’21)](https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/images/thumb/winter-2023/the-cut-man-thumb-360x360.jpg)
Mike Norfleet (’15, MA ’17, PsyD ’21) shares observations about life for female inmates and the critical issue of their mental health care
Editorial
Inside Voices
"Adoption and Faith: Trusting God with Unresolvable Questions" by Zachary Luben
Pepperdine People
Kelsey Knox, Archivist for Special Collections and University Archives