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Theses from 2025

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Investigating Key Structures in Protective Scenes for LLMs, Eben M. Weisman

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Retention Intervention Program Success: An Inquiry Into Learning Organization Structural and Cultural Elements in California Community Colleges, Paul Vernon Wickline

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Alloparenting and Male Infant Care Behaviors in Varecia rubra (red-ruffed lemur), Noelle Wilcox

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The McDaniels Center for the Digitally Disrupted: A Novel, Tyler Wildeck

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Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss, Ariel Caroline Wilsey-Gopp

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Activity Levels Among Older Adults in a Life Plan Community, Emily D. Winters

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Exploring the Pathway from Customer Sexual Harassment to Instigated Incivility in Service Employees, Fernanda Wolburg Martinez

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Working Paper No. 103, Russia and the Myriad of Challenges Associatedwith ‘Relative Backwardness’, Jacob Wood

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The Intersection of Education and Empowerment: How Comprehensive Sex Education Equips Adolescents to Navigate Complex Relational Dynamics, JoLeigh Wood

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Working Paper No. 100, Social Realism and Socialist Realism, Amanda F. Worman

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Working Paper No. 94, Franklin Roosevelt, His New Deal Policies, and The Ending of Laissez-faire, Amanda F. Worman

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Letter from the Editor, Lauren R. Yanase

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Table of Contents, Lauren R. Yanase

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Northern Red-Legged Frog Use of a New Under-Road Crossing and Adjacent Upland Habitat, Alyson W. Yates and Catherine de Rivera

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Investigating Water Temperature Dynamics and Hydrologic Interactions in an Urban Stream-Lake System near Portland OR, Matthew C. Yates and Jennifer L. Morse

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Investigating Environmental Controls on Temperature Dynamics in an Urban Stream, Matthew Cullen Yates

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Primary Health Care: Strengthening Health Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries, Erin Young

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Masthead, Anis Zaman

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Message from the Editors, Anis Zaman

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People-centered Policy Approach and Senator Hatfield’s Legacy, Anis Zaman

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Minimal Separating Sets in Surfaces, Christopher Nelson Aagaard

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Office to Residential Conversions: A Housing Crisis Response, Lloyd District Portland Or., Mackenzie Aamodt, Carson Fehner, Samantha Gallagher, Kara Hamilton, Daisy Schonder, and Etosha Terryll

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Binary Gendered Language: A Qualitative Study of PSU Students, Dakota Abercrombie

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Cultivating Connections: Future Approaches to Tourism ESL Pedagogy, Kelly Abrams

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Re-Indigenizing and Collaboratively Tending Urban Greenspaces, Divinity Nnenne Adewale