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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Identifying a Starting Point for the Guided Reinvention of the Classification of Chemically Important Symmetry Groups, Anna Marie Bergman
Biggi Commons, Beaverton, Oregon, Adela Berrio, Dexter Parry, Hannah Radziewicz, Thomas Aquinas, Victoria Kirkland, and Xiaofei Ren
Genetic Diversity Correlates with Morphological Diversity Among Populations of Achyrachaena mollis, Rachel S. Bice
Effect of Parasitic Orobanche uniflora on Sedum Plants and the Potential Implications for Urban Green Roofs, Jessica Bigger
Paradigm Shifts in Large-Scale Educational Change: Uncovering the Oregon Education Investment Board's Theory of Change-in-Action, Johanna Kathryn Blackford
The Use of Individual Component Analysis for N400 Events, Candice Bland and Sarah Key-DeLyria
Oregonian Holocaust Memory: Creating a Portal to the Past for Oregonians, Max Blust
Combat Exposure and Mental Health in the Military: the Role of Collective Identity, Philip G. Bouleh
Factors Affecting Clinical Research Enrollment Among Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, Nicole Grace Bouranis
EveryWear Marketing Plan, Khalid Bouredji, Raghav Gupta, and Gwendolyn Jester
Rebranding Empire: Consumers, Commodities, and the Empire Marketing Board, 1926-1933, Ashley Kristen Bower
Neighborhood Air Quality Impact from Construction Site Emissions in Portland, OR, Lyndsey Boyle
Crania Japonica: Ethnographic Portraiture, Scientific Discourse, and the Fashioning of Ainu/Japanese Colonial Identities, Jeffrey Braytenbah
Urban Air Quality Modeling: Evaluating Impacts of Ecoroofs on Urban Air Quality in Portland, Oregon, Danlyn L. Brennan and Selina Teng
Debts, Karina L. Briski
Cascade 30: Historic Columbia River Highway Active Transportation Network Plan, Jeff Broderick, Timothy DuBois, Seth Healy, Henry Miller, Elisha Ransom, and Justin Sherrill
The Potential of Solidarity in Existential Feminist Discursive Methods, Bella Brown
Comparative Analysis & Strategy: Policy Instruments for Renewable Energy in Oregon, Gabrielle A. Brown
Time Series Analysis Evaluating Mortality Rates and the Differences of How States Investigate Deaths, Jordan M. Bruhn
Trajectories, Time Windows, and Alternative Pathways of Engagement: Motivational Resources Underlying Academic Development during Middle School, Heather Anne Brule
Relationships Between In-Situ Tests and Soil Cyclic Strength for Earthquake Hazard Characterization in the Pacific Northwest, Tanner Scott Bryantt
The Bridges at Beaverton Creek, Beaverton, Oregon, Alex Bullington, Angela Parada, Channa Kim, Wyatt Redfern, Monique Lum, and Brandi Small
The Trailhead, Tigard, Oregon, Freddie Bulzan, Melvin Sharp, Aurora Charouhas, Alex Lovre, Zoe Johnson, and Tyler Reeves
A Colorless Nature: Exploring the Mental Health (Help-Seeking) Experiences of Pre-Adolescent Black American Children, Christopher Ashley Burkett
Working Paper No. 41, On Baseball and Thorstein Veblen’s Understanding of Instincts, Brian Burres