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Theses from 2026
From Reclamation to Restoration: Remaking Nature on Portland's Peninsula, Theus Richards
Scale-Dependent Particle Transport Over Urban-Like Roughness in Turbulent Flow, Rae Riddle
Reimagining Elementary Social Emotional Learning in a Post-Pandemic World, Maura Ridings Bourg
Entre La Lucha: Familismo and Well-Being of Latino Immigrant Families Navigating Manual Labor and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Faviola Robles Saenz
Junk Journaling for Graphic Designers: Analog Play & Process in an Increasingly Digital Design Landscape, Kristina Rosgen
Life Without Oxygen: Cellular Mechanisms Enabling Genome Maintenance and Proliferation in Cells From an Anoxia-Tolerant Vertebrate, Riley Asa Roth-Carter
Letter from the Editor, Lilli B. Rudine
Table of Contents, Lilli B. Rudine
Rebirth is Messy Anyway: A Fiction Novella, Lilli Belle Rudine
Comparing the Sensitivity and Degree of Boolean Functions via the Hypercube, Anne-Caroline Rupp
How Agile Became the Design Philosophy of AI Fishbowl Under Real-World Constraints, Jad Saad
Comparative Effectiveness of Olmesartan Medoxomil in Monotherapy and Combination Therapy With Other ARB Medications: Literature Review, Deepika Saini
Traditional Soil Extracts as a Low-Cost Tool for Native Plant Production in Ecological Restoration Nurseries, Nicolas Salcedo Cuevas
GPS Tracking Smart Dash Cam Capstone Review, Simrah Saleem
Positive Partner Support and Veteran Well-Being: How Capitalization Support Strengthens Military Veterans and Partnerships, MaryAnn Dona Samson
Set-Valued Conjugate Calculus and Duality in Optimization and Machine Learning via Generalized Relative Interiors, Gary Lee Sandine
Facilitators and Barriers that Exist for Patients Receiving Dental Care in Rural Communities, Monse Sandoval Brumbaugh
The Ladies' Home Journal: Dormant Seeds of the Feminine Mystique Pre-WWII, Isis Santos Villaça
Mourning in a Material World, Sarah Schaeffer
Ronald E. McNair Research Symposium Presentation Schedule 2026, McNair Scholars Program
Inherited Local Shrinkage for Adaptive Functional Form Discovery, Jacob Colestin Schultz
Lidar Mapping and Paleoseismic Investigation Reveal Holocene Activity and Northward Continuation of the Clackamas River Fault Zone, Oregon Cascade Range, Sandy Schwarzbart
Monitoring local plant biodiversity patterns in parks of Salem, Oregon, Asia Scott, Ellie Scott, and Michelle Talal
Evaluating the Impact of Leading Pedestrian Intervals and Curb Extensions on Conflict Frequency and Severity, Sophia Semensky
Seeing a Future Where I Exist as Myself: An Exploration of Suicidality as a Response to Sociopolitical Oppression in Transgender and Gender Expansive Populations, Alexander Ray Sequoia