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Theses from 2025

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Fancy Mice, Damian H. Aguilar

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Layout-Aware Quantum Circuitry and Algorithmic Extensions to Grover's Algorithm, Ali Al-Bayaty

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Indigenous Science and the Legacy of Fire: Resilience, Fuels, Mosaics, and Eco-cultural Landscapes in Oregon’s Coastal and Cascade Range, Julia Alcalá

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Fear, Trembling, and Wonder: Psalms of Awe, Solomon Aleph

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The Confluence of Millenarianism and Sabbateanism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, Madison J. Alexander

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SAE Baja Drivetrain Capstone 2024-2025, Leslie Alvarez Cisneros

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Codifying Capital: Legal Power, Racial Hierarchy, and the Gendered Dynamics of Law, Tavia R. Andrew

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Shock Effects Including Maskelynite Formation in Three Shergottite Meteorites From Mars, George Ayeh Anim

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"Our Vision Is That Black Mothers and Birthing People, Fathers, and Partners Are Safe, Honored, and Respected Throughout Pregnancy and Parenthood": Black Birth Workers' Agenda for Black Maternal Health in Oregon, Sarah Marguerite Applin

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The Necessity of Improved Pica Assessment Tools and Screening Practices for Harm Reduction, Deborah Arakelian

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Plan Mano Dura: A Punctuated Political Act? Addressing Gang Violence in El Salvador, Carlos A. Arias

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Universal Health Care, Oregon, Jennifer S. Arnold, Bethany Clouse, and Alec Martin

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Teaching From Past Example: Various Interpretations of Livy's Rape of Lucretia, June Baeck

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Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball

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Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors of Participation in Physical Activity and Resistance Training in Adolescent Girls: A Narrative Review, Ben Banse-Fay

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Changing Minds, Changing Modes: Optimizing Public Perception Strategies for Urban Cycling Through Behavior Change Theory, Brandon Barnhart

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Indigenous Futures: Decolonizing Conservation and Restoring Ecological Sovereignty, Jasmine Beach

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Oregon’s Compulsory Education Act: Americanism, Nativism, and Assimilation, Andrea M. Bell

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Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell

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Effect of IPV on Latino children's perspectives of fatherhood, Elizabeth Berks

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The Potential for Improv as a Therapeutic Tool in the Context of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Suggestions for DBT Clinicians, Jocelyn Borden

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Risk Factors for Substance Use Among Serious and Violent Offenders Undergoing Reentry, Elizabeth Bozarth

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Framing Economic Inequality on TikTok: A Qualitative Analysis of Gen Z’s Engagement Across Three Issues, Braydan W. Brown

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Is Sharing Always Caring: Critical Discourse Analysis on the Parasociality of Family Influencing Content on TikTok, Riley Brown

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Near Real-Time Prediction of Ground PM2.5 Concentrations Across Oregon Using GEOS-CF and Machine Learning Models, Long T. Bui