This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Atumpan: The Talking Drum, Richard Afriyie (Thesis)
Ureilite Meteorite Petrofabrics: Evolution and Formation Deformational Conditions, Benjamin Botwe Agyemang (Thesis)
Identity, Needs, and Conflict Online: Understanding Cultural Fragmentation in the Black Diaspora, Imhile Omosede Dora Akpata (Thesis)
Effectiveness of Peace Education and Recommendations for Implementation in the Sultanate of Oman's School Curriculum, Vision 2040, Mohamed Al Braiki (Thesis)
The Kashmir Conflict After the Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution: Geopolitical Dynamics and Human Security Implications, Rizwan Ali (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)
Intrinsic Memory in Digital SNNs: Enhancing Performance on the Cart-Pole Task With Fractional-Order Dynamics, Niklas Karl Anderson (Thesis)
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)
Detecting and Correcting Systematic Image Distortion in Digital Atomic-Resolution Images from Crystals: Projected Symmetry of Graphite Calibration Samples for Scanning Prove Microscopy and Subperiodic Crystals for Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy, Tyler Michael Bortel (Thesis)
Temperature and Hydrologic Context Influence Methane Variability in a Low-Salinity Marsh, Zoie Brauser (Thesis)
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)
Psychosocial Risk Factors and Recidivism Among Violent Offenders, Abbey Elizabeth Burgess (Thesis)
'O una Yola al Revé': Comentario Social y Cuento Popular, Empoderamiento Personal y Feminismo, Identidad Cultural y Negritud en la Música Contemporánea de la República Dominicana, Lissa Cabrera-Song (Thesis)
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)
Belongings, Kate Michal Chilelli (Closed Thesis)
Exploring the Association Between Neoliberal Marketization and Employee Burnout in a Behavioral Health Nonprofit, Carl Lindley Christiansen (Dissertation)
Growing Pains: The Loss of Plasticity to Extreme Anoxia in Developing Embryos of Austrofundulus limnaeus, Patrick Ryan Clouser (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)
Intersectional Pathways to Prison and Sentence Disparities: Exploring the Role of Race, Gender Identity, and Sexuality in Women’s Sentencing Outcomes, Jae Collett (Thesis)
Boundary Layers Over Elevated (E-Type) Roughness: Considering the Atmospheric Effects of Utility-Scale Solar PV Arrays, Emma Rocio Compton (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)
Functionality Risk Assessment and Risk-based Management for Critical Infrastructure Systems, Anteneh Zewdu Deriba (Dissertation)
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)
Racism, Mindset, and School Engagement: Unpacking the Experiences of Asian American College Students, Xuan Tan My Dinh (Closed Thesis)
Development of a Downwind Wind Turbine: Encouraging Faster Wake Recovery Through Coned Rotors, Taiga Naomi Drucker-Boisvert (Thesis)
Pieces of the Pathway: A Qualitative Exploration of Social Support for Individuals Navigating Houselessness, Desiree' Jane DuBoise (Dissertation)
Trapped in Transition: Structural Change and Political Dynamics in Middle-Income Countries, Gabriel Duvidovich (Dissertation)
Boundary-Layer Effects on Carbon Dioxide Adsorption in 70% Polyethyleneimine-Loaded SBA-15 Under Ambient Concentrations, Madeline Fischer (Thesis)
Singed Wing at the Edge of Sky, Steven Paul Fredrickson (Closed Thesis)
Omoiyari in the Performance of American Learners of Japanese: An Analysis of Second Culture Compilation and Pragmatic Transfer, Shizuka Fukuo (Thesis)
Student Voice as Institutional Evidence: An Exploratory Case Study of Low-Income Student Experience and Institutional Barriers at a Broad-Access Regional Public University, Andrea Marie Garrity (Dissertation)
Degree Assortativity and Estimation of Degree Distribution in a Contact Network of People Who Inject Drugs, Peter Geissert (Dissertation)
Low Cost Lightning Localization at Microwave Frequencies, Bradley Glaubitz (Thesis)
Not Merely a Workaround: Theorizing Asynchronous Math Talks as a Robust Instructional Routine for Visible Thinking, Participation, and Engagement in Mathematics Teacher Education, Simon Byeonguk Han (Dissertation)
Representing Post-Fire Reality: An Empirically Informed Temperature Index Approach to Post-Fire Hydrologic Modeling in Oregon's Western Cascades, Logan Hastings (Thesis)
Arylation of Nitrogen, Oxygen and Carbon Nucleophiles by Aryl(TMP)Iodonium Salts, Joseph Jordan Hatton (Dissertation)
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)
Developing Field and Spaceflight Microscopy, Nikki Johnston (Dissertation)
Aid and Assist Cases in Multnomah County: An Exploration of ORS 161.370, Savannah Jurasek (Thesis)
Advancing the OreSat ADCS: Design & Implementation of an Open-Source Reaction Wheel System, Chris Kane-Pardy (Thesis)
Japanese Learners and Mixed-Speech Styles, Nana Kawada (Thesis)
The Influence of Urban Form on the Distribution of Air Pollutants, Takin Khosrownia (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)
Controls, Variability, and Prediction of Water Temperature Dynamics in Freshwater Wetlands, Michael Benjamin Krochta (Dissertation)
Designing Automata and Systems in Memristive and Quantum Technologies, Manjith Kumar (Dissertation)
ƒ(Enlightenment): A Complex Adaptive Systems Model of Recursive Causality and Human Meaning-Making, Daniel Lambert (Thesis)
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)
Why Am I Here? Individual, Organizational, & Societal Influences of Employee Motives to Attend Voluntary Diversity Training and Their Effects on Training Outcomes, Henri T. Maindidze (Dissertation)
Getting Close, Sadie Laufe McCarthy (Thesis)
God's Not Neutral: Narrative Tropes, Spiritual Warfare, and the Construction of Evangelical Political Identity in American Christian Fiction, Evelyn L. McCullough (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)
Thermal Sensitivity of Native and Introduced Crabs: Implications for Reproductive Success, Keria Moritsugu-Vandehey (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)
Extending w-event Differential Privacy to the Publish-Subscribe Framework, Jacob Jerome Olinger (Thesis)
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)
Improving the FPGA Radio Design Cycle: Implementing DVB-S2 Modulation Using Verilator and GNU Radio, Seth Pellegrino (Thesis)
Reinvesting in a Lived Experience Workforce: An Exploration of Why Peer Support Specialists Leave the Field, Morgan Rae Pelot (Thesis)
Spatial Reconstructability Analysis: Information-Theoretic Modeling of Categorical Raster Data, David Percy (Dissertation)
We Don't See Race, We See Blue: A Case Study of Police Unions as Racialized Organizations, Sarahfina Aubrey Peterson (Dissertation)
Emotion-Focused Teaching and Preschool Children's Social, Emotional, and Self-Regulatory Development, Brielle Emily Petit (Dissertation)
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)
Their Home, My Home: Understanding Human-Coyote Interaction through Time and Space - A Case Study of the Portland Urban Coyote, Ha Ngan Pham (Thesis)
Virga, Ryan Pierce (Thesis)
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)
Building Energy Modeling and Life Cycle Assessment of Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic Windows, Bahareh Pourhosseini Akbarieh (Thesis)
Expanding Transmobilities: Understanding Genderdiverse and Transgender Travel Behavior Through an Art-Informed Methodology, Nicholas Michael Puczkowskyj (Dissertation)
Unmanned Aerial Support Program in Portland Police Bureau: A Case Study, Eiryn Renouard (Thesis)
Scale-Dependent Particle Transport Over Urban-Like Roughness in Turbulent Flow, Rae Riddle (Thesis)
Reimagining Elementary Social Emotional Learning in a Post-Pandemic World, Maura Ridings Bourg (Dissertation)
Entre La Lucha: Familismo and Well-Being of Latino Immigrant Families Navigating Manual Labor and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Faviola Robles Saenz (Dissertation)
Life Without Oxygen: Cellular Mechanisms Enabling Genome Maintenance and Proliferation in Cells From an Anoxia-Tolerant Vertebrate, Riley Asa Roth-Carter (Dissertation)
Positive Partner Support and Veteran Well-Being: How Capitalization Support Strengthens Military Veterans and Partnerships, MaryAnn Dona Samson (Dissertation)
Set-Valued Conjugate Calculus and Duality in Optimization and Machine Learning via Generalized Relative Interiors, Gary Lee Sandine (Dissertation)
Inherited Local Shrinkage for Adaptive Functional Form Discovery, Jacob Colestin Schultz (Dissertation)
Lidar Mapping and Paleoseismic Investigation Reveal Holocene Activity and Northward Continuation of the Clackamas River Fault Zone, Oregon Cascade Range, Sandy Schwarzbart (Thesis)
Evaluating the Impact of Leading Pedestrian Intervals and Curb Extensions on Conflict Frequency and Severity, Sophia Semensky (Thesis)