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Textural Investigation into Rapid Welding Transitions in the Tuff of Leslie Gulch along Succor Creek at the Mahogany Mountain-Three Fingers Rhyolite Field, Southeastern Oregon, Alicia J. Martinez-Garling and Martin J. Streck
Wasted Space: Using Parking Lots & Vacant Land to Improve Neighborhood Completeness, Ryan Martyn
Doubly Almost Bipartite Leonard Pairs, Shuichi Masuda
Teaching in a Kenyan Refugee Camp: A Critical Ethnography of the Impact of Teacher Preparation and Cultural Experience on Pedagogy, James Adiok Mayik
Priscus at the Court of Atilla: Unveiling Hunnic Dynamics, Jake C. McCauley
The Cambridge Five Spy Ring: The Notorious Bane of the British Government, Jenna G. McComas
The Cascading Effects of Database Design, Liam McCracken
Permission to Play: A District's Initiative to Innovate Kindergarten and Promote Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Cristin McDonough
Spectroscopic End Point Detection With an Electron Beam Evaporator, Ryan McGraw
Modeling Injury Severity of Truck-Involved Crashes Under COVID-19 Regulatory Changes, William McKenzie
We're Here to Stay: Nonviolence and the Disability Rights Movement, Sky McLeod
Transgender and Non-binary Health in Oregon Under a Single-Payer Health System, Amy (Mick) L. McVeety (they/she)
Nostalgia Marketing: An Integrative Framework, Yasamin Mehdian Rad
Using Herbarium Record to Estimate Flowering Time Shifts Across Bioclimatic Regions, Anna Mele
Efficient and Chemoselective Access to Highly Functionalized Arenes by C-H Deprotonative Generation of Aryne Intermediates, Bryan Edward Metze
The Use of Extreme Risk Protection Orders Intended to Prevent Mass Violence in Oregon: A Descriptive Study, Rosol Mikail, Rebecca Valek, Shauna Rakshe, Rebecca Teichman, Susan DeFrancesco, and Kathleen Carlson
Understanding the Other: Mentor Ethnocultural Empathy and Relationship Quality and Duration in Youth Mentoring, Miriam Miranda-Diaz
Birkhoff Summation of Irrational Rotations: A Surprising Result for the Golden Mean, Heather Moore
Birkhoff Summation of Irrational Rotation: A Surprising Result for the Golden Mean, Heather L. Moore
Improving Tattle-Tale K-Deniability, Nicholas G.E. Morales
Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9 in Annual Killifish Species, Keria Moritsugu-Vandehey