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Theses from 2020
Sea Surface Microplastics: an Inshore-Offshore Gradient Off the Olympic Peninsula, Rosemary Wood
Ethics and True Crime: Setting a Standard for the Genre, Hazel Wright
Collecting Plant Phenology Data in Imperiled Oregon White Oak Ecosystems: Analysis and Recommendations for Metro, Kirsten Wright
Asian American Women in Leadership and Abusive Supervision, Mari A. Wu
The Availability of Injury Curricula across Accredited Schools and Programs of Public Health: A Needs Assessment, Tiona Wu, Tess Gilbert, and Kathleen F. Carlson
Narrowing the Cognitive Distance Between Engineers and Customers: a Novel Approach, Based on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, Byung Sung Yoon
Testing the Correlation of Trace Element Characteristics with the Petrology and Temperature of Eruption of mid-Miocene Rhyolites in Eastern Oregon, Brianna Christine Young
Associations between military noise, chemical exposures, and auditory function in Service members and Veterans, Sarah K. Young, Kelly Reavis, Susan Griest, and James Henry
No Oxygen, No Water: the Unique Physiology of Annual Killifish Embryos Across Development, Daniel Erik Zajic
The Rise of Mono-Ethnic Religious Nationalism in Myanmar and Its Impacts on the Security Situation of the South Asian Region, S M Anisuz Zaman
Optimizing Gold Nanoparticle-Fluorophore Interactions to Minimize Fluorescence Quenching, Felicia Zhou and Marilyn R. Mackiewicz
Understanding Evangelical Support for, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election, Joseph Thomas Zichterman
Valley of, Peter Zikos
Maus, Masks, and the Performance of Identity, Amie Zimmerman
Exploring How Community College Transfer Students Experience Connection in a Commuter University, Christa Michelle Zinke
Theses from 2019
Literature Review on the Effects of Water Fluoridation on the Human Health, Diana Abdeljawad
Metallodithiolate Ligands for Reversing Metal Ion Induced Aggregation of Beta Amyloid, Eleanor K. Adams
When the Courts were Tripping: An Analysis of Employment Division v Smith and Its Impact on Oregon Law, Lucy C. Adams
Hierarchical Decision Model for Housing Decision in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Adediji Adewunmi
“I Should Like to Say a Word or Two About Your Empire”: Victor Hugo le Grand, Napoléon III le Petit, and the Historiographical Battlefield of the French Second Empire, Madeleine Adriance
Investigation of Electronic and Optical Properties of 2-Dimensional Semiconductor Tin Selenide (SnSe) Thin Films, Shakila Afrin
Assembly Line Assessment and Optimization, Shivani Agarwal, Kyle Brown, Jesse Fritz, Harshita Gadiraju, and Chaitali Sunil Sawant
Our Lips are Sealed: a Social Constructionist Approach to Understanding Menstrual Concealment at Menarche, Olivia S. Agrusa