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Theater Over Textbooks: How a Neuroscience Outreach Group Utilizing Art in S.T.E.M. Provides Cost-Effective Strategies in Tackling the United States Education Gap, Camden Grant Howard and William Griesar
How Restorative Justice Practices Affect Adolescent Recidivism Rates: an Examination, Jordan A. Grant
Examining Integration and Sense of Belonging Among Undergraduate Students Participating in STEM Support Programs, MacKenzie J. Gray
Examining the U.S. Wars on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as the Production of Neo-Colonialism, Aiden Gregg
Two Black Utopias of The United States: Self Determination and Survival, Makaveli Gresham
Peers' Academic Coping as a Resource for Academic Engagement and Motivational Resilience in the First Year of Middle School, Daniel Lee Grimes
Numerical Model of a Radio Frequency Ion Source for Fusion Plasma Using Particle-In-Cell and Finite Difference Time Domain, Augustin L. Griswold
Numerical Model of a Radio Frequency Ion Source for Fusion Plasma Using Particle-InCell and Finite Difference Time Domain, Augustin L. Griswold and Erik J. Sanchez
The Power of a Prince: Machiavelli, Devotion, and the Secularization of Western Politics, Jason D. Grossmann-Ferris
Thorpes Falls, Natalie Guerin
The Development of Immigrants in Education, Kayla R. Guerrero
Night Office, Mark Douglas Guziel
Dynamic Response of Highway Bridge Superstructures Subjected to Wave Action: Experimental Analysis and Numerical Modeling, Alaa Waleed Hameed
The Meaning of Red and Green in User Interfaces for the Color Deficient, Bassel Hamieh
Troublemaker: an Exploration of Praxis in Leftist Political Theory, Emerson Hamlin
Facilitating Mixed Self-Timed Circuits, Alexandra R. Hanson
A Framework for Incorporating Benefits from Urban Forests into Planning for Livable Cities: a Case Study of Forest Park, Carole Hardy
A framework for incorporating ecosystem connectivity into urban planning for resilient cities, Carole L. Hardy
Snowfall on Orhan Pamuk's Literary Canvas, Jane Eden Hartle
Molecular Social Reality, the Cultural Helix & Sequencing Social DNA, Aidan Christopher Haughey
Home Resources Supporting Workplace Resources: an Investigation of Moderated Intervention Effects From the Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe), Sarah Nielsen Haverly
Pollinator Preference for Pacific Northwest Native Plants and Native Cultivars, Jen Hayes
Trailblazing Transformation: Pioneering Transformative Peacebuilding in Academic Labor Conflicts, Sam Frazier Hediger
Using wildlife fright information to inform trail planning, Lori Hennings