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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Schools Apart: Curricular Stratification Across School Socioeconomic Compositions and Implications for Educational Inequality in the US, Daniel Mackin Freeman
American Evangelicalism and the Status of Women: Biblical Interpretation, Politicization, and a Future for Secularism, Ivy MacNeil Blackwood
A Cognitive Approach to Supervisor Training Intervention Evaluation: Analyzing Change with Response Shift Theory and Models of Measurement Invariance, Luke Daniel Mahoney
Business Capstone Review: Team Dynamic Effects on Business Decision-Making, Lauren Mann
The Exploration of Latino BIP Participants' Experiences of Oppression and Expressions of Critical Consciousness, Adrian Luis Manriquez
Respiratory-Swallowing Coordination in Motor Neuron Disease: A Scoping Review, Mariam Z. Mansoor
Sustainable Leadership During Turbulent Times, Paul Marietta
An Exploration of Degrowth: Reimagining the Economy in the Face of Climate Change, Nicole Kristene Martinez-Bergman
Textural Investigation into Rapid Welding Transitions in the Tuff of Leslie Gulch along Succor Creek at the Mahogany Mountain-Three Fingers Rhyolite Field, Southeastern Oregon, Alicia J. Martinez-Garling and Martin J. Streck
Wasted Space: Using Parking Lots & Vacant Land to Improve Neighborhood Completeness, Ryan Martyn
Doubly Almost Bipartite Leonard Pairs, Shuichi Masuda
Thermal Regimes of Beaver Impacted Stream Reaches in the Tualatin River Basin, Miles Mayer
Teaching in a Kenyan Refugee Camp: A Critical Ethnography of the Impact of Teacher Preparation and Cultural Experience on Pedagogy, James Adiok Mayik
Priscus at the Court of Atilla: Unveiling Hunnic Dynamics, Jake C. McCauley
The Cambridge Five Spy Ring: The Notorious Bane of the British Government, Jenna G. McComas
The Cascading Effects of Database Design, Liam McCracken
Permission to Play: A District's Initiative to Innovate Kindergarten and Promote Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Cristin McDonough
Spectroscopic End Point Detection With an Electron Beam Evaporator, Ryan McGraw
Modeling Injury Severity of Truck-Involved Crashes Under COVID-19 Regulatory Changes, William McKenzie
We're Here to Stay: Nonviolence and the Disability Rights Movement, Sky McLeod
McNair Scholars Program Summer Symposium (Video Recording) Part One, McNair Scholars Program
McNair Scholars Program Summer Symposium (Video Recording) Part Two, McNair Scholars Program
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Profiles and Abstracts 2024, McNair Scholars Program
Transgender and Non-binary Health in Oregon Under a Single-Payer Health System, Amy (Mick) L. McVeety (they/she)