This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Examining Perceptions of Which Exonerees Deserve Compensation, Alexandra Pauline Olson (Thesis)
Professional Development for Special Education Paraeducators: How to Effectively Train Classroom Staff to Support Students with Complex Instructional and Behavioral Needs, Cara Olson-Sawyer (Dissertation)
The Benefits of Social Support on Health and Well-Being in Military Populations: Examining Mechanisms, Source of Support, and the Reach of a Workplace Well-Being Intervention, AnnaMarie Sophia O'Neill (Dissertation)
Reconceiving the Relationship Between the Built Environment and Walking Behavior: Examining the Samples, Scales, and Methods in Travel Behavior Research, Jaime Pablo Orrego-Oñate (Dissertation)
The Effect of Peer Relationships and Cyberbullying Victimization on Young Adults' Propensity to Cyberbully, Taaj Weraphorn Orr (Thesis)
An Assessment Model of the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Ecosystem to Foster Solutions for Underserved Communities, Abdalilah Saleh Owaishiz (Dissertation)
An Analysis of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Tulsa Remote Program, As an Effective Economic Development Strategy, Kristen J. Padilla (Thesis)
A Bayesian Latent Scale Model for Multivariate Longitudinal Data, Kruti Pandya (Dissertation)
K-12 Racial Equity Work in the Predominantly White Pacific Northwest: Interracial Conversations, Counter-Stories, and Considerations, Bradley Justin Parker (Dissertation)
Critical Awareness, Reflection, and Action in Head Start Leadership: A Critical Consciousness Case Study of Head Start Leaders, Christopher Pearce Agudelo (Dissertation)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use, Service Delivery Experiences, and Communicative Participation for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Betts Peters (Dissertation)
Surfer's Journal, Ann M. Petroliunas (Closed Thesis)
Selected Hybrid-Genre, Short Story, and Fiction Work, Elizabeth F. Pickard (Closed Thesis)
Do Motives Matter? The Role of Motivation in Shaping the Impact of Mindfulness Training on Teachers' Psychological Distress and Wellbeing, Cristi N. Pinela (Dissertation)
Linking Conservation and Environmental Justice: Exploring Relationship-Building Between a Land Trust and Four Pacific Northwest Tribes, C. Noel Plemmons (Thesis)
Effectiveness of Air Pollution Mitigation Systems: Transport, Transformation, and Control of Ozone in the Indoor Environment, Pradeep Ramasubramanian (Dissertation)
A Tale of Two-Hybrids: Investigating the Interactomes of Cullin-Associated Proteins, Elyse Reitter (Thesis)
Random Lasing in Nano-Crystalline Zinc-Oxide Films, Benito Reynaldo Resendiz (Thesis)
"I Just Had to Do Most Everything": Gender, Settlement and American Empire in the Far West, Hannah Alexandra Reynolds (Thesis)
Dog Music, or, An Invitation to a Haunting, Andrew Joseph Richman (Closed Thesis)
Geographies of Urban Unsafety: Homeless Women, Mental Maps, and Isolation, Jan Radle Roberson (Dissertation)
The Fig King of Fresno: The Botanical Heist That Reshaped California's Landscape, Jacob Walz Roberts (Closed Thesis)
You Will Be Loved: a Mixtape, Ariana M. Rosales (Thesis)
A Three-Dimensional, Analytical Wind Turbine Wake Model: Flow Acceleration, Empirical Correlations, and Continuity, Zein Ahmad Sadek (Thesis)
Wealth and Peace: The History and Political Economy of Montesquieu's Doux Commerce, Adam W. Saltzman (Thesis)
A Snapshot of Japanese Family Conversation and Language Maintenance Effort, Yuya Sano (Thesis)
The Impact of New Light Rail Service on Employment Growth in Portland, Oregon, Lahar Santra (Thesis)
Observation and Control of Photoemission and Electric Field Enhancement of Plasmonic Antennas through Photoemission Electron Microscopy, Christopher M. Scheffler (Dissertation)
Bombyx Mori, David Kysung Seung (Closed Thesis)
Same Game, Different Rules: Pointillist Imperialism and the New Cartography of Great Power Competition, Andrew Jesse Shaughnessy (Thesis)
Hesitant Claim to Life, Brent Shenton (Closed Thesis)
Keeping in Touch While Sheltering in Place: A Comparative Case Study on the Complex Emotions Experienced by Older Adults When Introduced to ICTs and Video Conferencing Services, Marisa Susan Soltz (Dissertation)
A Typology of Foster Home Quality Elements in Relation to Foster Youth Mental Health, Paul Sorenson (Dissertation)
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Reynolds and Dispersive Stresses in Turbulent Boundary Layers Over Multi-Scale Rough Patches, Catherine Virginia Spivey (Thesis)
Well of Endings, Jason Michael Stieber (Closed Thesis)
The Myths They Make of Us, Kaitlin Stone (Thesis)
"I'm Very Enlightened:" Assisting Black Males Involved in the Criminal Justice System to Deal With and Heal From Racism, Darnell Jackie Strong (Dissertation)
Dress and Identity: Using Sartorial Artifacts to Explore Identity at Fort Vancouver, Dana Marie Sukau (Thesis)
Erasure through Engagement: The Community Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, Meghan Elizabeth Sullivan (Thesis)
Agenda Setting and Europe's Common Immigration Policy, Jamie P. Surface (Dissertation)
Modeling Postfire Effects on Snow Albedo and Forest Recovery Over a Chronosequence of Burned Forests in the Triple Divide Region of the Rocky Mountains, Anton J. Surunis (Thesis)
Geochronological and Geochemical Investigation into Rhyolite Volcanism of the High Lava Plains and Columbia River Basalt Group Provinces of Eastern Oregon, USA, Vanessa Marie Swenton (Dissertation)
Words Matter: A Linguistic Analysis of Cluniac Views on the Use and Abuse of Violent Force, Amanda K. Swinford (Thesis)
The Rise of Neo-Fascist Populism and Islamophobia in the West, Mohamed Tawfiq Said Tabib (Thesis)
Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Microplastic Concentrations in Portland's Freshwater Ecosystems, Rebecca Talbot (Thesis)
More Than Words: Articulating the Multisensory Experiences of Protected Area Visitors in Southern Nevada, Sara Nicole Temme (Thesis)
Increasing Collaboration to Improve Student Outcomes: Improvement Science, Cassandra Diane Thonstad (Dissertation)
Learning From Machines: Insights in Forest Transpiration Using Machine Learning Methods, Morgan Thornwell (Thesis)
Methodologies for Quantum Circuit and Algorithm Design at Low and High Levels, Edison Tsai (Dissertation)
Examining Emergency Citizen Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergent Groups Addressing Food Insecurity in Portland, Oregon, Aliza Ruth Tuttle (Thesis)
Most Recent Rupture on the Boulder Creek Fault Triggered Bedrock Landsliding in the Nooksack Watershed, Whatcom County, Washington, Abigail Catherine Underwood (Thesis)
Robust Design Methodologies Under Performance Variations for More Than Moore Technologies: CNFETs & 3DICs, Satya Keerthi Vendra (Dissertation)
Building a Turbulent Jet: Measuring/Modeling Lagrangian Dispersion, Particle Trajectory Dynamics and Intermittency, Bianca Fontanin Viggiano (Dissertation)
The Plant Water Management Experiments, Marc Benjamin Wasserman (Thesis)
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonization Response to Dike Removal in the Salmon River Estuary, Elinore Webb (Thesis)
Le Gout Qui Reste: Cultural Identity and Belonging in Ook Chung's Kimchi, Taurean James Weber-Laurencio (Thesis)
In Their Own Words: Examining the Educational Experiences, Expectations, and Values of Oregon Low-Income, Single Black Mothers, Reiko Mia Williams (Dissertation)
The Mechanisms Connecting State Marijuana Policies to Parent, Peer, and Youth Drug Perception Leading to Youth Marijuana Use, Eunbyeor Sophie Yang (Dissertation)
"Damn, man. The time that I lost": Power and the Process of Diagnosis for Women with Chronic Illnesses, Kaitlin Roquel Yeomans (Thesis)
Maturity Model for Customer-Centric Approach in Enterprise: The Case of E-commerce and Online Retail Industry, Soheil Zarrin (Dissertation)
Church of Sasquatch, Scott Zeigler (Closed Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Adoption and Use of E-Grocery Shopping in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Transport Systems and Beyond, Gabriella Abou-Zeid (Thesis)
Improved Predictive Modeling Techniques for Non-Linear Solder Material Behavior, Arman Millian Ahari (Thesis)
The Effect of Viscosity on The Puddle Dynamics in Low Gravity Environment, Taif Hamed Saleh Al Juboori (Dissertation)
The Longitudinal Effects of a Family and Sleep Supportive Intervention on Service Member Anger and Resilience, Shalene Joyce Allen (Thesis)
Power Distribution System Tools for Analyzing Impacts of Projected Electric Vehicle Load Growth Using GridLab-D, Shahad Alomani (Thesis)
Nature-Based Solutions in Environmental Planning: Ecosystem-Based Adaptations, Green Infrastructures, and Ecosystem Services to Promote Diversity in Urban Landscapes, Lorena Alves Carvalho Nascimento (Dissertation)
Assessment of the Blockchain Technology Adoption for the Management of the Electronic Health Record Systems, Saeed Mohammed Alzahrani (Dissertation)
Walking as a Way of Knowing: An Autoethnography of Embodied Inquiry, Lauriel-Arwen Amoroso (Dissertation)
Online Activism and Real Life Environmentalism, Emily Grace Anderson (Thesis)
Improving Bicycle Crossings at Unsignalized Intersections through Pavement Markings: Analysis of the City of Portland Innovative Strategy, Frank Boateng Appiah (Thesis)
Steady-State Transmembrane Water Exchange in Proliferating Cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Joseph O'Malley Armstrong (Dissertation)
Community College Geoscience Faculty Perspectives on Critical Thinking Instructional Tools, Mariela Salas Bao (Dissertation)
Investigations into Size and Surface Control of Silicon Nanocrystals for Improved Optical Properties, James Donald Barnes (Dissertation)
Information Security Maturity Model for Healthcare Organizations in the United States, Bridget Joan Barnes Page (Dissertation)
Creativity in Science, Engineering, and the Arts: A Study of Undergraduate Students' Perceptions, Dildora F. Beaulieu (Dissertation)
The Perceptions of Rural Teachers Engaged in Environmental Education Professional Development Workshops: A Case Study of the Alder Creek Community Forest and the Story of Your Place, Bryan R. Benz (Dissertation)
Drug Conviction and Employment Restriction: Experiences of Employees with Drug-Related Criminal Histories, Liana Bernard (Thesis)
Opportunities and Challenges in the Collection and Use of Socio-Spatial Data in National Forest Planning, Diane Trechsel Besser (Dissertation)
Mitonuclear Mismatch is Associated with Increased Male Frequency, Outcrossing, and Male Sperm Size in Experimentally-Evolved C. elegans, Brent William Bever (Thesis)
Identifying the Cost of Preventable Chronic Disease in Prison: Can Illness Prevention of Adults in Custody Save Money?, Molly Bineham (Thesis)
Rhyolite Stratigraphy Along Succor Creek: Insights into the Eruptive History of the Three Fingers and Mahogany Mountain Volcanic Field, Cassandra Caryl Black (Thesis)
Graphite Sun, Lucie Anne Bonvalet (Closed Thesis)
Sustaining Boys' Motivation Over the Transition to Middle School: Can Interpersonal Resources Protect Boys from Engagement Declines Across Sixth Grade?, Brandy Anne Brennan (Thesis)
Songs from the Wasteland, Nitya Prem Brorson (Closed Thesis)
What Does it Mean to be Deaf? Changing Meanings of Deafness, Communication Technology, and Beliefs about Normality in the US, Kathryn Elizabeth Burrows (Dissertation)
Post-Fire Tree Mortality and Regeneration Patterns as Proxies of Conifer Forest Resilience, Sebastian Upton Busby (Dissertation)
Oregon's Racial Purity Regime: The Influence of International Scientific Racism on Law Enforcement, Legislation, Public Health, and Incarceration in Portland, Oregon During the Victorian and Progressive Eras (1851-1917), Katherine N. Bush (Thesis)
A Multiplicity of Journeys: STEM Education Ecosystems as Sources of Cultural Sustenance, Christopher Louis Beauprey Cardiel (Dissertation)
Mid-Miocene Icelandites of Eastern Oregon: Petrogenesis and Magmatic Lineage to Main-Phase CRBG with Constraints on Storage Sites, Melissa Aileen Carley (Thesis)
Efficient Neuromorphic Algorithms for Gamma-Ray Spectrum Denoising and Radionuclide Identification, Merlin Phillip Carson (Thesis)
Developing an Archaeologically Literate Citizenry Through Public Archaeology: Assessing Archaeology Websites, Lisa Marie Catto (Thesis)
A Method for Comparative Analysis of Trusted Execution Environments, Stephano Cetola (Thesis)
Perceived Value of Technology Product Features by Crowdfunding Backers: The Case of 3D Printing Technology on Kickstarter Platform, Nina Chaichi (Dissertation)
Testing Functional Variation in Thermal Properties for Antarctic Mosses, Andrew Forrest Clements (Thesis)
Affecting Absenteeism Through School-Based Health Services Delivery: A Configurational Comparative Methods Study of Oregon's Public Secondary Schools, Kelly Elizabeth Coates (Dissertation)
Multi-scale Environmental Conditions Associated with Shade-Tolerant Conifer Regeneration in Forest Park, Portland, Oregon, Matthew Cook (Thesis)
Urban Lakes: Ecosystem Services and Management, Laura Costadone (Dissertation)
Using Quantitative Stereology on High Resolution SEM Images to Estimate Diatom Percentages, Ariadna Covarrubias Ornelas (Thesis)
A Collaborative Approach to Cultural Resource Risk Assessment, Preservation, and Prioritization: A Case Study from Sauvie Island, Oregon, Phillip James Daily (Thesis)