This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Ureilite Meteorite Petrofabrics: Evolution and Formation Deformational Conditions, Benjamin Botwe Agyemang (Thesis)
Effectiveness of Peace Education and Recommendations for Implementation in the Sultanate of Oman's School Curriculum, Vision 2040, Mohamed Al Braiki (Thesis)
Assessment of the Readiness of Architectural Design Companies to Adopt Eco-Friendly Nanotechnologies in Sustainable Building Design, Ashwaq Essa Al Khalil (Dissertation)
A Hierarchical Decision Model to Evaluate Healthcare Organizations' Readiness for Telemedicine Adoption: Case of Virtual Care Delivery, Salman Mohamad Alshmrani (Dissertation)
Adopting Critical Power Grid Infrastructure Technologies: An Organizational Cybersecurity Assessment against Ransomware, Fayez Alsoubaie (Dissertation)
Local and Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Sustainable Development: Creating Sustainable Futures Amidst Crisis Conditions at the Community Level, Carlos Andrés Arias (Dissertation)
Reasoning in Large Language Models Across Multilingual, Long-Context, and Symbolic Settings, Sina Bagheri Nezhad (Dissertation)
Characterizing the Effect of Plasticity Index on Monotonic and Cyclic Shear Behavior of Natural Low-Plastic Silt Mixtures, Amir Barati-Nia (Dissertation)
Improving Explainability and Interpretability of Neural Networks via Hyperparameter-Extended Influence Functions, William Breslin (Dissertation)
The Method of Periodic Averaging Applied to Reduced Coupled Mode Theory Models for Fiber Laser Amplifiers, Rebecca Nicole Bryant (Dissertation)
Rangeland Conservation Easements: A Social-Ecological Case Study from Eastern Oregon, Martine Cartier (Thesis)
An Applied Anthropological Study of Conflict Reduction: Fostering a Culture of Safety at a Homeless Service Organization in Portland, OR, Katelyn Champion (Thesis)
Investigation and Design of Adjustable Stiffness Magnetic Springs for Wave Energy Converters, Dawei Che (Dissertation)
Improved Method of Evaluating Gas-Phase Air Cleaners Considering Adsorption and Desorption Mechanisms To and From Internal Test Chamber Surfaces, Casey Douglas Coffland (Thesis)
BL(u)E CRAB: Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Risk Assessment Benchmarking, Dylan Christopher Conklin (Thesis)
Group Operations for Concurrent Binary Search Trees, Theodora R. Cooper (Dissertation)
Flexible Load Communication Protocol Mapping Guide: IEEE 2030.5 to ANSI/CTA-2045, Joseph D'Ambrosia (Thesis)
Intersectionality and Insurgent Citizenship: Women of Color Feminism in 1970s New York City, Genevieve Bonner Davis (Thesis)
Relational Histories: Exploring the Transmission of Ceramic Technology in the Norton Sound Region Through Petrographic Analysis, Laurel Michelle Diciuccio (Thesis)
Open-Ended Development in Role Systems: An ALife Approach, Shane Michael Dicks (Dissertation)
Development of a Downwind Wind Turbine: Encouraging Faster Wake Recovery Through Coned Rotors, Taiga Naomi Drucker-Boisvert (Thesis)
Low Cost Lightning Localization at Microwave Frequencies, Bradley Glaubitz (Thesis)
Effects of FIB-Based Sample Preparation on Semiconductor Strain Characterization, Daniel Carl Hedinger (Dissertation)
Evaluating the Implementation of Oregon's DSM-5-Informed Autism Eligibility Revisions: Interest-Holder Perspectives and Policy Implications, Bradley Josef Hendershott (Dissertation)
Multiple-Valued Quantum Automata for Robotics, Yuchen Huang (Dissertation)
The Strain Equation: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis of Job Demands and Depletion Outcomes, Alison L. Hunt (Dissertation)
A Qualitative Study Into the Impact of Sweeps on Homeless-Serving Mutual Aid Groups in Portland, OR, Clover Javurek-Humig (Thesis)
Aid and Assist Cases in Multnomah County: An Exploration of ORS 161.370, Savannah Jurasek (Thesis)
Japanese Learners and Mixed-Speech Styles, Nana Kawada (Thesis)
Haapxtàm Ka'ál Yimisapʰíkʰ We Dream for Our Children Indigenous Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education: Survivance, Truth Telling, and Healing on Native Land, Sara Anne Koyano (Dissertation)
Designing Automata and Systems in Memristive and Quantum Technologies, Manjith Kumar (Dissertation)
Process Development of C63000 Nickel Aluminum Bronze for Cold Spray, Trent LaMont (Thesis)
Justice by Geography: District-Level Variation in Pretrial Release Outcomes Across Oregon, Ethan Loomis (Thesis)
Getting Close, Sadie Laufe McCarthy (Thesis)
Relativistic Corrections to H, O(VII), and Fe(XXV) Lineshapes in Hot Plasmas, Asa Drew Dawdy McNaughton (Thesis)
Beyond Predation: Invasive Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) Alters Juvenile Pacific Oyster (Magallana gigas) Function and Survival Across Environmental Gradients, Isabel Helena Mize (Thesis)
Estuary Doorway, Penelope Moskowitz (Closed Thesis)
Distortions, Margaret Muthee (Closed Thesis)
Digital (In)Justice? Evaluating Procedural Justice in Online Crime Reporting, Nazmy Natia (Thesis)
Balancing Fairness and Quality in Automatic Text Summarization, Olubusayo Olabisi (Dissertation)
Collusion-Resistant Quantum Key Leasing, Nikhil Pappu (Dissertation)
Heat Pump Water Heater CTA-2045 Implementation Guidance for Maximizing Demand Response Impact, Dana Kahiwahiwa Paresa (Thesis)
Navigating Homelessness and Housing Accessibility: An Ethnography of Guests at Operation Nightwatch, Chase Kawika Patton (Thesis)
Reinvesting in a Lived Experience Workforce: An Exploration of Why Peer Support Specialists Leave the Field, Morgan Rae Pelot (Thesis)
Shoplifting: Analyzing Spatial and Temporal Patterns, Elizabeth Petrenko (Thesis)
Shifting Perspectives in Mathematics: Examining Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Evolving Conceptions of Mathematics, Identity, and Social Inequality Through Course Design, Autumn Thu Pham (Dissertation)
Examining Fort Vancouver Curatorial Practices: How Do Museums Interact With and Represent the Public?, Karryn Meharchand Pillay (Thesis)
Design and Implementation of Error Estimators for Finite Element Eigenvalue Problems, Gabriel Esteban Pinochet Soto (Dissertation)
Expanding Transmobilities: Understanding Genderdiverse and Transgender Travel Behavior Through an Art-Informed Methodology, Nicholas Michael Puczkowskyj (Dissertation)
Scale-Dependent Particle Transport Over Urban-Like Roughness in Turbulent Flow, Rae Riddle (Thesis)
Entre La Lucha: Familismo and Well-Being of Latino Immigrant Families Navigating Manual Labor and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Faviola Robles Saenz (Dissertation)
Positive Partner Support and Veteran Well-being: How Capitalization Support Strengthens Military Veterans and Partnerships, MaryAnn Dona Samson (Dissertation)
Evaluating the Impact of Leading Pedestrian Intervals and Curb Extensions on Conflict Frequency and Severity, Sophia Semensky (Thesis)
ARID: Agglomerative Regionalization via Information Divergence, A Novel Clustering Algorithm for Geo-spatial Data, Joshua David Sills (Thesis)
Effect of Degree of Saturation on the Liquefaction Resistance of Non-Plastic and Low-Plastic Soils, Kayla Rae Sorenson (Dissertation)
Toward Contextual Adaptation and Knowledge Grounding in Large Language Models, Yufei Tao (Dissertation)
Acceptance of Shared Autonomous Vehicles: Exploring the Attitudes and Perspectives of Older Adults, Sara Sohaee Urbina (Dissertation)
Modeling the Combined Effects of Forest Fire and Climate Change on Snow-Water Storage in the Oregon Cascades, Joseph D. Vigil (Thesis)
"Your Problem is Not at All an Uncommon One": Visibility, Black Men, and Sexual Orientation in The Anti-Apartheid and Civil Rights Movements, Wren Addison Weddell (Thesis)
Heat Misers, Snow Misers, and Cognitive Misers: The 'Nukewarm' Perceptions of Nuclear Power, Tyler Williams (Thesis)
When Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors: "Civilization" v. Pastoralism in Kenya and Oregon 1860s-1930s, Trenna Wilson (Thesis)
Not an Occident: Positive Selection Predicts Patterns of Adaptive Introgression in an Early-Stage Buttercup Hybrid Zone, Ziqi Xie (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Communities of Practice: Aging, Emergency Management, and Churches in Rural Clackamas County, Oregon, Lukas Robert Aberle (Thesis)
When My Intersecting Identities of Being Racially Oppressed and Privileged Become Blurred: An Autoethnographic Dive Into Unlocking the Polarities of Who I Am, Susan Acosta (Dissertation)
Layout-Aware Quantum Circuitry and Algorithmic Extensions to Grover's Algorithm, Ali Al-Bayaty (Dissertation)
"I'm strictly t4t": Trans for Trans Connections in the Contemporary, Madi Lou Alexander (Thesis)
Detecting and Analyzing Frequency Events in Power Systems Using Tunable Parameters-Based Algorithms: Development, Optimization, and Analysis, Hussain A. Alghamdi (Dissertation)
A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Workplace Challenges Experienced by Women, Ahmed Mohammed Almousa (Dissertation)
Latino Threat Perceptions and Immigration Attitudes: An Examination Across Generations of Latinos, Michelle Angel (Thesis)
Shock Effects Including Maskelynite Formation in Three Shergottite Meteorites From Mars, George Ayeh Anim (Thesis)
Japanese and English Code-Mixing: A Study on the Grammar and Functions by L1 Japanese-Speakers in Oregon, Takefumi Ariga (Thesis)
Adapting to Southwest Idaho's Shifting Wildfire Regime: Sustainable Collaboration as a Means to Socioecological Resilience, Olivia Awbrey (Thesis)
Magma Evolution and Eruptive History of Three Fingered Jack: A Mafic Composite Volcano in the Central High Cascades of Oregon, Javaria Aziz (Thesis)
Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball (Thesis)
Bird Community Changes One Year Post-Wildfire in Mesic Temperate Rainforests: A Case Study in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA, Tatjana Beck (Thesis)
"We're Not Gonna Take It": The Parents' Music Resource Center and Reformist Tendencies in American Society, Nathaniel Todd Belcik (Thesis)
Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell (Thesis)
Identifying the Drivers Behind the Decline of Douglas-fir and True Fir Species in SW Oregon, Alexander Bryant Bentley (Thesis)
The Silk Butterfly Effect: Japan and the United States 1853-1941, Melodee Birlew (Thesis)
The Call of Cucurrucucú, Rachel Olivia Blair (Thesis)
Occurrence of Pesticides in Oregon Coastal Waters and Effects on the Intertidal Sea Anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima, Gabriella Mae Bleil (Thesis)
Dog Days, William Conrad Boechler (Closed Thesis)
Optimizing Boys' Motivation Over the Transition to Middle School: A Pattern-Centered Approach to Identifying Boys' Profiles of Engagement and the Interpersonal Resources Important in Supporting Optimal Engagement of Boys Across Sixth Grade, Brandy Anne Brennan (Dissertation)
Mental Health in Prisons: Examining Variations in Disorders Across Custody Levels, Ariel Bysiek (Thesis)
Their Will is Wealth: American Billionaires, Illiberal Capital, and their Immunity to Federal Law, Conor Kawika Carroll (Thesis)
Addressing Disparities Among Latine Students in Special Education, Jesabel Jannette Centeno (Dissertation)
Exploring Underrepresented STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development: The Role of Social Partners, Sandy Cerda-Lezama (Dissertation)
Perspectives of Cannabis Farmers on Intersection of Water Access and Cannabis Frontier Constraints in Southern Oregon, Tapiwa Malvin Chabikwa (Thesis)
Tweeting the Past, Present, and Future of Social Welfare: Public Political Speech, Cultural Resonance, and Debates about Defunding the Police, Kevin Noel Cherry (Dissertation)
A Mixed-Methods Study on Extended Parental Separation Among Mexican and Central American Immigrants: Insights From Legal Violence and the Stress Process, Natalie J. Cholula (Dissertation)
Growing Together: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Community-Reflective Early Learning Professionals, Tonya Jo Coker (Dissertation)
Controlling the Curriculum: A Content Analysis of PragerU's Children's Educational Material, Heather Katherine Costa (Thesis)
Urban Wildlife in Your Backyard: Community Experiences With Coyotes and Outdoor Cats, Clarissa Emma Cressotti (Thesis)
Beyond Traditional Education: Graduation Rates at an Alternative High School, Kayla Dawn Marie Crook (Dissertation)
Lacustrine and Terrestrial Paleoseismic Records of the Twin Lakes Fault near Mount Hood, Oregon, USA, Natalie K. Culhane (Thesis)
Beyond Translating Cultures: Organizational Cultural Brokering and Latin@/e/x Community Resilience after the "Mobile Home Parks" Fire, Christine Atalie da Rosa (Dissertation)
Capturing Processes of Influence in Students' Social Interactions: Examining a Two-Part Strategy to Detect Patterns of Reinforcement in Continuous Real-time Observations in the Classroom, James Lamar DeLaney III (Dissertation)
#Clandestini: How Italy's Center-Right Parliamentary Coalition Frames the Migrant Crisis on Social Media, Jenna Lynn DePasquale (Dissertation)
Support Beyond Services: Examining the Role of Neighbor Relationships, Housing Staff, and Place in Mental Health Recovery, Kenna Estell Dickard (Dissertation)
Becoming a Learner: An Autoethnography, Joshua Dickinson (Thesis)