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Psilocybin with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), Aspen E. Allred
Employer voices: Insights on Bolstering Career Development for Graduate Students, Alexandria J. Ashraf MPH, Josh Hodsden MBA, Justin Howe BA, Danielle Ross BA, Dalton Wesemann BA, and Lisa K. Marriott PhD
Flammability of Dominant Tree Species Portends Severe Wildfire Risk in the Portland-Vancouver Metro Area, Lindsey Babcock, Eliza Baker, Anaïs Baker, Kat Benjamin, Sean Brown, Emma Campbell, Gus Compton, Ella Crotty, Alec DeContreras, Kiana Fields, Eva Groeke, Rosan Groot, Meredith Hastings, Rosalie Imbimbo, Jolie Jaffe, Hannah Kaba, Bucky Kuehn, Harper Lethin, Lyda Longfritz, Diya Mandyam, Naia Marten, Nat Michaels, Julian Sarin, Anna Spollen, Joseph Tally, Mariana Tijerina, Alex Vandendries, Catherine Wheaton, and Aaron R. Ramirez
Understanding Quadrature Modulation by Designing a 7MHz IQ Test Bench to Encode the Polybius Square, William Lee Bradley
2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns
Unlocking Potential: The Transformative Power of Trauma-Informed Schools on Students' Well-Being and Academic Success, Tiffany Carolino
Faculty Mentors' Influence on Latino/a/x STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development, Sandy Cerda-Lezama
Impact of Heavy Metals Exposure on Lung Health in Peruvian Children: Preliminary results of a Cross-Sectional Study, Sofia I. Chapela Lara, Olivia Arar, Lauralee Fernandez, and Seth E. O'Neal
What explains male and female decision making to enter law? Evidence from a survey of US-based undergraduate students., Abigail Cohen
Gaza's Healthcare System in Collapse: An Exploratory Analysis of Healthcare Attacks in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) and Israel since October 2023, Vincenzo J. Cornacchione
Anthropogenic Resistance on Occupancy of Black-tailed Deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) and Coyote (Canis latrans), Clarissa E. Cressotti
Using systems thinking tools to inform the implementation of a cysticercosis control program in rural Peru, Lisset M. Dumet Poma MBA; Angela Spencer PhD; Ruth Atto BSc; Vanessa Cruz BSc; Percy Vilchez MPH; and Seth O'Neal MD, MPH for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
Exploring Decolonial and Indigenous mental health framework and practice to address complex trauma among Palestinian youth living under violence of settler-colonialism, Vivian L. Duong and Corrin Murphy
Preliminary Reactions for DO3MBn ester Design of Experiments With a Separation Procedure for DO2MBn ester and DO3MBn ester ligand, Cerys A. Easton
Comparison of Conventional and Adaptive Acoustic Beamforming Algorithms Using a Tetrahedral Microphone Array in Noisy Environments, Megan Brittany Ewers
Trauma Informed Approaches to Researcher-Participant Relationships: Examples from a Housing and Health Study, Cristina Flores, Jade Garza, Judith R. Solomon, and Marisa Westbrook
Supply is not Limulus: Research Review of Horseshoe Crab Conservation in the Face of Intense Pharmaceutical Demand, Zoya Galeev
Cognitive and Economic Development, John Luke Gallup
An Argument for the Integration of Black Psychology in Undergraduate Psychology Program, Kelsey D. Glass
Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger
Updated Occupancy and Abundance for Northwestern Pond Turtle and Western Painted Turtle in the Lower and Middle Willamette Watersheds, Laura Guderyahn
Beavers Beyond Boundaries: Perceptions of beaver-related restoration, Matthew V. Guziejka
Assessment of Avian Community Structure and Habitat Connectivity in the Fanno Creek Corridor, Grace Hall