This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
The Effect of Mesoscale Frontal Waves on Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation Over the Green River Watershed, Washington, Joseph Michael Riedl (Thesis)
Weak Formulation for Solving Inverse Problems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (With Applications to Learning Dynamical Systems), Victor William Rielly (Dissertation)
Barriers Beyond Bars: Examining Experiences of Students with Criminal Records, Anakin Rivera Ramirez (Thesis)
Enabling New Synthetic Platforms for Aryne Synthesis with Aryl Thianthrenium Reagents, Riley Augustus Roberts (Dissertation)
Stayin' Alive (Even Without Oxygen): Retinal Development in Austrofundulus limnaeus, Carmen Zecilia Rodriguez (Thesis)
Free-Running Ring Oscillators for Crystal-Free Communication Systems: Design, Simulation Challenges, and Frequency Stability Improvements, Haziq Rohail (Thesis)
The Role of Cultural Mathematical Caring Relations in Supporting Two Latina Undergraduates’ Rate of Change Development within a Constructivist Teaching Experiment: An Anti-Deficit Investigation Bridging Sensemaking and Cultural Experiences, Christopher Orlando Roman (Dissertation)
What This Work Really Takes: Lessons, Tensions, and Student Perspectives in a Social Justice Math Classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Roman (Dissertation)
An Integrated Multivariate Econometric Modeling Framework for Risky Driving Behavior Related Crashes: Evaluating Crash Risk and Severity Across Zones, Pabitra Kumar Roy (Thesis)
Online Decision Mamba, Trenton W. Ruf (Thesis)
Navigating the Neoliberal Assemblage: The Role of a Nonprofit Organization Shaping Disaster Governance and Community Resilience, Andrew Michael Russo (Dissertation)
An Innovative HDM Model for Assessing Renewable Heat Energy Resources in Utility Energy Systems, Mark Alan Ryan (Dissertation)
Experiences of Minority Workers: A Three-Study Dissertation Evaluating Recruitment and Workplace Experiences for Minority Workers, Jennifer Saucedo (Dissertation)
A Resource-Based Perspective of STEM Career Development: A Latent Class Analysis, Erika Ann Schemmel (Dissertation)
The New Normal: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Experiences of Today's Academic Nursing Faculty, Lisa R. Scott (Dissertation)
"I'll Just Say It's Been a Racist Process": The Power Dynamics Within and Outside Diversity Requirement Classrooms at a Minority-Serving Institution, Kazusa Seko (Dissertation)
Characterizing Meteorological Patterns for Oregon's Winter Elevated PM2.5 Concentrations from 2000-2023, Arielle Golda Sherbak (Thesis)
Special Delivery: Special District Use of Collaboration to Solve Challenges, Kelly Irene Fahl Sherbo (Dissertation)
The Art of Memory: The Medieval Peutinger Map, Amber Shrewsbury (Thesis)
A Quantitative and Analytical Study of Light Atmospheric Hydrocarbons in Remote and Urban Environments, Alex Martin Smith (Dissertation)
Who Belongs and Why It Matters: Belonging at an Oregon Elementary School, Kelly Smith (Dissertation)
Flow Control Tactics for Photovoltaic Modules: Coherent Structure and Heat Shedding Amplification, Sarah Elizabeth Smith (Dissertation)
Uncovering Moral Injury at Work: The Development and Initial Validation of the Moral Injury at Work Scale (MIWS), Megan J. Snoeyink (Dissertation)
Is Ride-Hailing a Potential Solution for Older Adults After Driving Cessation? The Role of Objective and Perceived Accessibility, Minju Kim Song (Dissertation)
In-Between Spaces: First-Generation College Immigrant Experiences, Silvina Alamo Sousa-Ransford (Dissertation)
Hydrosocial Ocean Commons: Offshore Wind Energy in Oregon, Bryce Ashlyn Sprauer (Thesis)
Orphan Basalts: Understanding the Origins of Unassigned Eastern Oregon Basalts, Angela Rae Stetson (Thesis)
"I Like the Idea in Theory": Experiencing the Imperial Matrix through Legal Gender Marker Changes and Nonbinary Disidentifications, Wynn Strange (Dissertation)
Analyzing National War Propaganda Through Comparison of Diverse Case Studies, Ike Sugitani (Thesis)
A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo (Thesis)
You Have to CUT&WALK Before You Can CUT&RUN: Regulation of Gene Expression by the Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) in the Annual Killifish, Austrofundulus limnaeus, Rosalia Tanori (Thesis)
Characterizing Secondary Flow Structures Over Scaled Solar Arrays and Investigating Impact of System Yaw Angle, Katie Nicole Taylor (Thesis)
Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms, Alexandra Gabrielle Tissot (Dissertation)
The Effects of TFEα and Promoter Sequence on Early Events in Archaeal Transcription Initiation, Madolyn Toli (Thesis)
From Either-Or to All Together: Integrating Universal and Relativistic Approaches to Belonging and Engagement in the First Year of Middle School, Kristina Shiann Tucker (Thesis)
What Kinds of Experiences and Activities Contribute to College Students' Sense of Purpose? A Mixed-Methods Study, Katlyn Rochelle Viers (Thesis)
When You Know: Essays, Kayla Jewel Vokolek (Closed Thesis)
Digging Deeper with Deep RAM Networks, Andrew J. Wagner (Thesis)
Retention Intervention Program Success: An Inquiry Into Learning Organization Structural and Cultural Elements in California Community Colleges, Paul Vernon Wickline (Dissertation)
The McDaniels Center for the Digitally Disrupted: A Novel, Tyler Wildeck (Closed Thesis)
Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss, Ariel Caroline Wilsey-Gopp (Thesis)
Exploring the Pathway from Customer Sexual Harassment to Instigated Incivility in Service Employees, Fernanda Wolburg Martinez (Dissertation)
Investigating Environmental Controls on Temperature Dynamics in an Urban Stream, Matthew Cullen Yates (Thesis)
Functional Ecology of Antarctic Flora, Zoie C. Yetley (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)