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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Spatial Reconstructability Analysis: Information-Theoretic Modeling of Categorical Raster Data, David Percy
Updating ODOT's Intersection Control Evaluation Tool, Elias Peters
We Don't See Race, We See Blue: A Case Study of Police Unions as Racialized Organizations, Sarahfina Aubrey Peterson
Emotion-Focused Teaching and Preschool Children's Social, Emotional, and Self-Regulatory Development, Brielle Emily Petit
Shoplifting: Analyzing Spatial and Temporal Patterns, Elizabeth Petrenko
Geographic and Systemic Disparities in Maternal Health: A Systems Analysis of Prenatal Care Access Across Rural Oregon, Cecelia Petrik
Their Home, My Home: Understanding Human-Coyote Interaction through Time and Space - A Case Study of the Portland Urban Coyote, Ha Ngan Pham
The Freedom Myth: How Ski Culture's Hidden Conformity Reveals the Unconscious Power of Brand Belonging, Isabel R. Phillips
Virga, Ryan Pierce
Examining Fort Vancouver Curatorial Practices: How Do Museums Interact With and Represent the Public?, Karryn Meharchand Pillay
Design and Implementation of Error Estimators for Finite Element Eigenvalue Problems, Gabriel Esteban Pinochet Soto
Protest Aesthetics: Identity, Surveillance, and Representation in Media, Mason Pittenger
36th Annual Young Historians Conference Program, Portland State University History Department and Portland State University Challenge Program
Pathos, Winter 2026, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Building Energy Modeling and Life Cycle Assessment of Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic Windows, Bahareh Pourhosseini Akbarieh
The Impact of Relative Humidity and Soil Moisture on Foliar Water Uptake for Urban Tree Planning, Rory Price, Samantha Hartzell, Sybil Gotsch Dr., and Lauren Lowman Dr.
Expanding Transmobilities: Understanding Genderdiverse and Transgender Travel Behavior Through an Art-Informed Methodology, Nicholas Michael Puczkowskyj
Modeling Turbulent Accretion Flows Around Black Holes: Azimuthal Flux Derivative Density Curves in 3D MHD Simulations, Sasmitha Purushothaman, Matthew D. Duez, and Pavan Chawhan
"Running! No Breaks!" and Resisting Perfection, Perry Rachmuth
Moving Beyond Traditional Cost Containment for GLP-1 Coverage within Oregon's Proposed Universal Health Plan, Manoj Rajesh
Math, and You! Math Tools Website for First-Grade Children With Instruction Provided Through Music Education, Tye Raymond
Unmanned Aerial Support Program in Portland Police Bureau: A Case Study, Eiryn Renouard
A Novel, Embedding-Based Approach to Longitudinal Survey Data Imputation, Julia Rezvani
Assessing Spatial Distribution of Plausible Earthquake-Triggered Landslides Relative to ca. 1000 ybp Earthquake on the Gales Creek Fault, Jacqueline Rheingans