This open access collection of exemplary graduate and undergraduate work includes nearly forty sub-collections: award-winning capstone projects, faculty-mentored research, and peer-reviewed scholarship. Find theses, dissertations, research projects, posters, presentations, articles, and more.
Search the Collection to find a topic or limit by discipline, keyword, date, or publication.
Student work
- comprises one third of PDXScholar.
- includes all PSU theses and dissertations.
- represents 60% of PDXScholar downloads.
- has been downloaded over 10 million times!
- Popular Content
Top 10 downloads - Undergraduate Research Commons
More than 700 publications in our repository network - Browse the Digital Commons Network
Over 500 colleges & universities in our shared repository
Please see the submission guidelines of each journal/event before submitting an online form.
- Journals
- Conferences & Symposia
- Faculty Nomination Form
- Program-specific Submission Forms
- Undergraduate Research Commons (Beyond PSU)
Organized by discipline, search for "Open to All" publications
- Top Downloads/Streams
- Readership Distribution
- PlumX Metrics
Item-level usage, citations, captures, mentions, and social media posts
Learn More: Portland State Research
Bringing the future into focus through groundbreaking research and scholarship
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Narrowing the Cognitive Distance Between Engineers and Customers: a Novel Approach, Based on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, Byung Sung Yoon
Testing the Correlation of Trace Element Characteristics with the Petrology and Temperature of Eruption of mid-Miocene Rhyolites in Eastern Oregon, Brianna Christine Young
Associations between military noise, chemical exposures, and auditory function in Service members and Veterans, Sarah K. Young, Kelly Reavis, Susan Griest, and James Henry
No Oxygen, No Water: the Unique Physiology of Annual Killifish Embryos Across Development, Daniel Erik Zajic
The Rise of Mono-Ethnic Religious Nationalism in Myanmar and Its Impacts on the Security Situation of the South Asian Region, S M Anisuz Zaman
Optimizing Gold Nanoparticle-Fluorophore Interactions to Minimize Fluorescence Quenching, Felicia Zhou and Marilyn R. Mackiewicz
Understanding Evangelical Support for, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election, Joseph Thomas Zichterman
Valley of, Peter Zikos
Maus, Masks, and the Performance of Identity, Amie Zimmerman
Exploring How Community College Transfer Students Experience Connection in a Commuter University, Christa Michelle Zinke
Theses from 2019
Literature Review on the Effects of Water Fluoridation on the Human Health, Diana Abdeljawad
When the Courts were Tripping: An Analysis of Employment Division v Smith and Its Impact on Oregon Law, Lucy C. Adams
Hierarchical Decision Model for Housing Decision in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Adediji Adewunmi
“I Should Like to Say a Word or Two About Your Empire”: Victor Hugo le Grand, Napoléon III le Petit, and the Historiographical Battlefield of the French Second Empire, Madeleine Adriance
Investigation of Electronic and Optical Properties of 2-Dimensional Semiconductor Tin Selenide (SnSe) Thin Films, Shakila Afrin
Assembly Line Assessment and Optimization, Shivani Agarwal, Kyle Brown, Jesse Fritz, Harshita Gadiraju, and Chaitali Sunil Sawant
Our Lips are Sealed: a Social Constructionist Approach to Understanding Menstrual Concealment at Menarche, Olivia S. Agrusa
On the Drought Recovery and Resiliency: How Terrestrial and Riverine Ecosystems Recover from Agricultural and Hydrological Droughts, Behzad Ahmadi
Designing Katana : Unsheathing the Potential of Gameplay for Constructing Cultural Memory, Tracy Alan
Strength Tuned Steel Eccentric Braced Frames, Hosam Abdullah Al-Azzawi
Comparing The Best Modes of Transportation for International Shipping By Hierarchical Decision, Ali Al Gafly
Team Process Report, Ali Al-Gafly, Anju Babu, Jose Banos, and Priyanka Patil
Assessment of Mobile Payment Technologies for College Students, Sultan Al Ghamdi and Mustafa Almuzel