This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell (Thesis)
Forest Fires Increase Mid-Winter Snowmelt in the Western Oregon Cascades, Sage Ebel (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Minimal Separating Sets in Surfaces, Christopher Nelson Aagaard (Dissertation)
Quantum Search Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems Using Grover's Search and Quantum Walk Algorithms with Advanced Oracle Design, Abdirahman Sheikh Hassan Alasow (Dissertation)
Crossover of Supervisors' Perceptions of Co-worker Support to Employees' Well-Being, Shalene Joyce Allen (Dissertation)
A Deep Learning Framework for Blockage Mitigation in mmWave Wireless, Ahmed Hazaa Almutairi (Dissertation)
The Conflict between the United States and Iran and its Effect on Iraq, Sarah Alsalih (Thesis)
Undergraduate Students of Color Raising Children and Persisting in Higher Education, Kimberly Denise Alvarez (Dissertation)
Embodied Urban Political Ecology of Oil: Social Reproduction in Oil Geographies Case Study: Ahwaz, Khuzestan, Iran, Maryam Amiri (Dissertation)
Tag-based Security in C: Writing and Specifying Flexible Protection, Sean Noble Anderson (Dissertation)
Recontextualized Knowledge: Available Designs of the Long-Form YouTube Video Essay, Michelle Lynn Arendt (Thesis)
The Women of the Oregon State Insane Asylum: 1900-1910, Rebekah Catherine Averette (Thesis)
"We're Going to Tear up the Caldera So We Can Have an Electric Car": Competing Perceptions and Spatial Dimensions of Open-Pit Lithium Mining in the McDermitt Caldera, Oregon, Elizabeth Bartholomew (Thesis)
A Survey of North American Electric Bicycle Owners, Cameron Steven Bennett (Thesis)
It's Going to be Okay: Experiences and Perceptions of People Who Seek Reassurance at Work, Liana Bernard (Dissertation)
Cleaning the Dirty Pool: Testing Interaction Effects Using Different Panel Model Specifications, Rhiannon Berry (Thesis)
Understanding Quadrature Modulation by Designing a 7MHz IQ Test Bench to Encode the Polybius Square, William Lee Bradley (Thesis)
2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith (Thesis)
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns (Thesis)
Analyzing the Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Legacy of the United Nations, Hunter Wade Calley (Thesis)
Rupturing Silence(s): Memoir of a Voice, Abigail Rose Card (Closed Thesis)
Large Length Scale Droplet Capillary Phenomena: Generation, Jump, and Capture, Karl Jeffrey Theodore Cardin (Dissertation)
Urgent Care Program Influences on an Integrated Health Care System, Craig H. Carter (Dissertation)
Readiness of Cybersecurity in the USA Energy Industry, Aaron Cavanaugh (Dissertation)
Adopting OER Course Materials: Instructor Experiences, Jenny Ceciliano (Dissertation)
Faculty Mentors' Influence on Latino/a/x STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development, Sandy Cerda-Lezama (Thesis)
Post-Wildfire Water Quality Dynamics: A Multiscale Examination and Predictive Modeling of Stream Temperature and Turbidity in Western U.S. Watersheds, Junjie Chen (Dissertation)
Three Essays on Communicative Planning: From the Perspective of East Asians, Minji Cho (Dissertation)
Exploring Evidentiary Approaches and Reform Potential in the Allies in Change Program for Abusive Intimate Partners, Julie Melissa Conner (Thesis)
Immigration Policy Evaluation for Technology Professionals Immigrants in the United States, Angel Contreras Cruz (Dissertation)
An Exploratory Study of an Executive Team Leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Tara LaShawn Cooper (Dissertation)
Characterizing the Role of the Complement Receptor C3aR in Regulating Inflammatory Responses and Mitochondrial Function in Activated Macrophages, Jesse Alan Corcoran (Dissertation)
Social Media and the Technological Infrastructure of Polarization in the United States: How Do We Move Forward?, Phoebe Cordova (Thesis)
Marketing in Higher Education: The Effects on the College Choice Experience of First-Generation Latinx Students, David Cortez (Dissertation)
An Examination of the Impact of Court-Appointed Fines and Fees: How Governmental Reliance on These Expenses is Harming Vulnerable Communities, Rachel Elizabeth Couche (Thesis)
The Nuanced Relationship Between Mindfulness, Racial Prejudice, and Policy Support, Jared Michael Cutler (Dissertation)
The Not-Vampire, Everett Thomas DeBeauchamp (Closed Thesis)
Cabrita::Curandera, Alex Roselio De La Cruz (Closed Thesis)
Single-Stage Three-Phase Buck-Boost DC/AC Converter Design, Analysis, and Validation, Daisy Delgado-Zaragoza (Thesis)
Belt It Out, Cheyenne Dobbs (Closed Thesis)
(un, made, Dumitru Michael Dobre (Thesis)
Body/Prose, J.T. Duncan (Closed Thesis)
Flood Vulnerability in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Hue Hong Duong (Dissertation)
Uncovering the Dynamic Nature of Fire Refugia Across Landscapes in Oregon's Western Cascades, Alec Scott Dyer (Thesis)
Design and Test of Asynchronous Systems Using the Link and Joint Model, Ebelechukwu Esimai (Dissertation)
Comparison of Conventional and Adaptive Acoustic Beamforming Algorithms Using a Tetrahedral Microphone Array in Noisy Environments, Megan Brittany Ewers (Thesis)
Automatic Measurement of Dialogue Engagingness in Multilingual Settings, Amila Ferron (Thesis)
Social Justice in Social Work: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Erica Fonseca (Dissertation)
Exploring the Curriculum and Institutional Contexts of STEM Future Faculty Programs, Amy Mae Forester (Dissertation)
Phytoplankton Community Dynamics in the Northern California Current System, Kristin E. Forgrave (Thesis)
Evaluating the Multi-Valued Bartlett Processor, Daniel Robert Frister (Thesis)
The Bonneville Power Administration in a Transformative Decade: A Study of Collibration in Public Administration, Christopher M. Frost (Dissertation)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Simulation-Based Education: Experiences from Multiple Academic Health Centers, Jesika Samuelson Gavilanes (Dissertation)
Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger (Dissertation)
Experiences of Community College STEM Students in Transferring and Adapting to a Four-Year Urban University, MacKenzie Jade Gray (Dissertation)
Peer Group Influence on the Antecedents of Academic Coping over the First Year of Middle School, Daniel Lee Grimes (Dissertation)
Exploring the Social Processes Influencing the Well-Being and Social Integration of Systemically Marginalized Students in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Zeinab Abbas Hachem (Dissertation)
An Evaluation of Sediment Transport in the Columbia River Basin: Before and After System-Wide Flow Regulation, Patrick Alan Haluska (Thesis)
Social Workers as Police and Prison Wardens in the Progressive Era, Sam Harrell (Dissertation)
Co-Designing with First-Generation Transfer Students, Randi Petrauskas Harris (Dissertation)
The Foodpunk City: Advancing Portland's Food Security Through a Shared Ideology of Adaptation & Resistance, Nickolas Hash (Thesis)
Varecia rubra (Red Ruffed Lemur) Diel Activity and Calling at Andranobe, Masoala National Park, Madagascar, Hannah Elena Hilden-Reid (Thesis)
Artificial Intelligence as the Next Front in the Class War, Christopher Hill (Thesis)
両忘: Ryōbō Both Forgotten, Claire Elizabeth Dame Hinkley (Closed Thesis)
Stricken by the Worst Type of Sickness: The Communal Reaction and Response to Impaired Individuals in the Middle Ages, Alice Holland (Thesis)
Bridging the Gap: Using Significance Modeling to Identify Data Gaps in Lithic Sites Within the Tualatin River Basin, Aaron James Reid Hood-Foster (Thesis)
Participatory Democracy: The Potential for Civic Transformation Understanding Participants' Learning in the Milwaukie Citizens Jury, Amanda Grace Hudson (Dissertation)
Numerical Study of Cone Penetration in Calcareous Sands: Investigating Cone Tip Resistance Correction Factors for Crushable Soils, Stephanie Michelle Hyder (Thesis)
An Analysis of Citizen Participation in Spatial Plan Preparation, Case Study of Gaborone City, Botswana, Bongani Tshidiso Ikaneng (Thesis)
Efficient Visual Data Processing Approaches to Improve Resource Utilization, Yeganeh Jalalpour (Dissertation)
PCL and DMSO2 Composites as Biomaterials for Additive Manufacturing, Jae-Won Jang (Dissertation)
Pathways to Social Mobility: Examining Trades as a Career Path for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, June Jenkins (Thesis)
Primary Care in the University Setting After COVID-19: A Multiple Case Study of Student Health Services in Oregon, D. Chad Johnson (Dissertation)
A Native American Perspective on Navigating the Academic World With Resilience and Honoring the Wisdom of Native Elders, Shani Renee Johnson (Dissertation)
Choosing to Become a Teacher-Mentor: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Experience of Informal Teacher-Mentors, Stephen Wayne Johnson II (Closed Dissertation)
Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Reliability of Solder Joints, Robert Lee Jones (Dissertation)
A Qualitative Study on the Persistence of Seasoned Student Affairs Professionals, Russell Taylor Jones (Dissertation)
Effects of Exogenous and Endogenous Variables on Efficiency and Productivity: Case of Indian Banks, Aurobindh Kalathil Puthanpura (Dissertation)
Exploring Determinants of Transit Recovery After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Udit Khandelwal (Thesis)
The Central Role of Perceived Safety in Connecting Crash Risk Factors and Walking Behavior, Kyu Ri Kim (Dissertation)
Crown Shy, Laura Francesca Kincaid (Thesis)
Resource-constrained 2D Scene Recovery with Single-Photon Cameras, Daphne Ariadne Kurzenhauser (Thesis)
A Contemporary Examination of Racial Intraminority Relations: Attitudes, Motivations, and Barriers to Participation in Collective Action, Jaboa Shawntaé Lake (Dissertation)
Applying Decolonizing Theories and Methodologies in Archaeology to Two Collaborative Cultural Resource Management Projects, Cydney K. Lanthier (Thesis)
Desert: Poems, Eric Larsh (Closed Thesis)
Prosodic Analysis of Wh-indeterminate Questions in L2 Korean, Jung In Lee (Thesis)
Centering the Leader: An Investigation of Leader-Centric Variables in the Support Provision Process, Jordyn Jan Leslie (Dissertation)
Propagation Modeling of Terahertz Reflections and Reflector Design for MIMO Channel, Thanh Ngoc Dan Le (Dissertation)
The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Juvenile Offender Typology, Aliza Beth Lipman (Thesis)
Concolic Testing for Scripting Languages, Zhe Li (Dissertation)
Is This My Place? Contributing Factors to Community College Students' Longitudinal Sense of Belonging and the Connection of Sense of Belonging to Student Success, Kelly Elizabeth Love (Dissertation)
Faint Glimmers: Redrawing the Housewife in Yamada Murasaki's Talk to My Back, Ceres Lovelace (Thesis)
Yang-Baxter Equations, David Lovitz (Dissertation)
The Protective Effects of Perceived Partner Responsiveness on Service Members' Drinking and Health Outcomes, Julia Maria Oosi Lynch (Thesis)
Schools Apart: Curricular Stratification Across School Socioeconomic Compositions and Implications for Educational Inequality in the US, Daniel Mackin Freeman (Dissertation)
A Cognitive Approach to Supervisor Training Intervention Evaluation: Analyzing Change with Response Shift Theory and Models of Measurement Invariance, Luke Daniel Mahoney (Dissertation)
The Exploration of Latino BIP Participants' Experiences of Oppression and Expressions of Critical Consciousness, Adrian Luis Manriquez (Dissertation)
Sustainable Leadership During Turbulent Times, Paul Marietta (Dissertation)
Doubly Almost Bipartite Leonard Pairs, Shuichi Masuda (Dissertation)
Thermal Regimes of Beaver Impacted Stream Reaches in the Tualatin River Basin, Miles Mayer (Thesis)