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Theses from 2020
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
The Landscape Services of Ecology, Eric P. Butler, Leslie Bliss-Ketchum, Cat de Rivera, Sahan Dissanayake, Dorothy Horn, Ben Huffine, Amanda Temple, Michael Vermeulen, and Hailey Wallace
Picturing Forgotten Filipinos: Family Photographs Resisting U.S. Colonial Amnesia, Stevie Cadiz and Alma M. O. Trinidad
Distribution, Geochronology, and Petrogenesis of the Picture Gorge Basalt with Special Focus on Petrological Relationships to the Main Columbia River Basalt Group, Emily Bogdan Cahoon
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Investigation of Morphology Changes in the Reduction of Silica Nanoparticles to Elemental Silicon, Allison M. Cairns
The Importance of Richard Lionheart in the Third Crusade, Stefan Caplazi Mr.
The Role of Marketing Education in Reactions to Advocacy Advertising, Tobin Carlberg
Predicting Opioid Overdoses in Pennsylvania, Nicholas Carolan
Emergence in the Strengths and Love of My People to Counter Invisibility for Liberation in the White Academy, Emily D. Carrillo-Casares
Re-engaging Individual Capacities in Service of Civic Capacity: a Model of Holistic Civic Engagement Education for the University, Jane Gerald Carr
Urban Hostility: CPTED, Hostile Architecture, and the Erasure of Democratic Public Space, Matthew M. Carr
A Secret Plague: How the Decline of Mental Health During the Great Plague Created an Undetected Epidemic, Erin A. Carty
Explicit Learning of Auditory Categories in Preschoolers With and Without Developmental Language Disorder, Lauren Casey
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion and Association with Community Health Center Funding; a Focused Look at the Diabetic Hispanic/Latinx Community, Soraya Castenada and Leslie Bienen
Collaboration and Evaluation in Urban Sustainability and Resilience Transformations: the Keys to a Just Transition?, Liliana Elizabeth Caughman
The Economically Disadvantaged Speak: Exploring the Intersection of Poverty, Race, Child Neglect and Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System, Angela Gail Cause
CE-QUAL-W2 Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model of the Cedar River Municipal Watershed, Amory Spencer Cervarich