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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Estimated Amounts of Terrestrial Carbon Mobilized and Sequestered by the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption, Washington State, USA, Lizzet G. Reyes
The Effect of Mesoscale Frontal Waves on Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation Over the Green River Watershed, Washington, Joseph Michael Riedl
Weak Formulation for Solving Inverse Problems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (With Applications to Learning Dynamical Systems), Victor William Rielly
Barriers Beyond Bars: Examining Experiences of Students with Criminal Records, Anakin Rivera Ramirez
Shanghai's Stateless Immigrants: Anti-Bolshevik Russians in Shanghai from 1917-1949, Anna E. Roberts
Enabling New Synthetic Platforms for Aryne Synthesis with Aryl Thianthrenium Reagents, Riley Augustus Roberts
Stayin' Alive (Even Without Oxygen): Retinal Development in Austrofundulus limnaeus, Carmen Zecilia Rodriguez
The Role of Cultural Mathematical Caring Relations in Supporting Two Latina Undergraduates’ Rate of Change Development within a Constructivist Teaching Experiment: An Anti-Deficit Investigation Bridging Sensemaking and Cultural Experiences, Christopher Orlando Roman
What This Work Really Takes: Lessons, Tensions, and Student Perspectives in a Social Justice Math Classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Roman
Mindful Marcelo: The Process of Writing and Illustrating a Culturally-Specific Children's Book for Early Psychoeducation, Liz Romero-Herrera
Why Democracy Has Lost the Trust of Modern People in the Modern Era, Erica Rubel
Temporal Modeling and Forecasting of Blood Glucose Dynamics in Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus, MJ Ruff
Navigating the Neoliberal Assemblage: The Role of a Nonprofit Organization Shaping Disaster Governance and Community Resilience, Andrew Michael Russo
Expression of BioID2 in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, Brandon Sa
Forecasting Influenza Rates Using Machine Learning: A Study of ChatGPT's Predictive Accuracy, Sara Saleh
Playing Makes Believing: Narrative Creation in Tabletop Role-Playing Games, Evan Salthouse
Experiences of Minority Workers: A Three-Study Dissertation Evaluating Recruitment and Workplace Experiences for Minority Workers, Jennifer Saucedo
A Resource-Based Perspective of STEM Career Development: A Latent Class Analysis, Erika Ann Schemmel
The New Normal: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Experiences of Today's Academic Nursing Faculty, Lisa R. Scott
Freeing the Fremont: Visions of a Post-Automobile Portland Highway Bridge, Henry Senters
Minoru’s Mecca: The World Trade Center, 9/11, and the End of Architectural Modernism, Henry D. Senters