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Theses from 2019
Impacts of a Parental Consent Law on Teen Birth and Abortion Rates in Kansas, Cameryn Carr
Correct-by-Construction Typechecking with Scope Graphs, Katherine Imhoff Casamento
Exoskeleton, Vinu Casper and Liliana Fitzpatrick
Cross-Language Transfer in Intervention with Bilingual Adults Who Stutter: Two Case Studies, Marlen Castellanos, Hillary Landers, and Megann McGill
Colocha: a Memoir, Julieta Castro
Political Queerness Against Reproductive Futurism in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K., John J. Caufield
Moving Beyond Migrant Disposability: Interrogating History and Identity, Marisol M. Cendejas
Analyzing Disparities in Ecosystem Services in U.S. Cities: The Relationship Between Tree Cover and Socio-Demographics, Katherine V. Cendrowski
How Does Wasta Bolster Regimes? The Case of Tunisia, Issrar Chamekh
Versatile Binary-level Concolic Testing, Bo Chen
Explanation Methods for Neural Networks, Jack H. Chen and Christof Teuscher
The Fate of Atmospherically Deposited Mercury in Mountain Lake Food Webs, and Implications for Fisheries Management, Ariana Martos Chiapella
Avian Dispersal Networks, Metacommunity Structure, and Bryophyte Community Assemblages, Matthew Wojciech Chmielewski
Classical Music from the Late 19th Century to the Early 20th Century: The Creation of a Distinct American Musical Sound, Ashley M. Christensen
The Ethical Challenges of Community-Based CS Training at Portland State, Joseph W. Christman
The Elvis Yurt: a Novel in Progress, Christine J. Bailey Claringbold
Aggregation of Electric Water Heaters for Peak Shifting and Frequency Response Services, Thomas Leighton Clarke
An Equitable Approach to Addressing Mental Illness Within U.S. Study Abroad Programs, Katie J. Clark
LiDAR Predictive Modeling of Kalapuya Mound Sites in the Calapooia Watershed, Oregon, Tia Rachelle Cody
Impulsivity in Science: Students' Beliefs in Their Science Abilities with and without ADHD Symptomology, Deza'Rae M. Collins and Lisa Marriott
Quantifying the invisible: A literature review and history of research on the health effects of wildfire smoke, Lily A. Cook MA
"Poverty Wages Are Not Fresh, Local, or Sustainable": Building Worker Power by Organizing Around (Re)production in Portland's "Sustainable" Food Industry, Amy Katherine Rose Coplen
Energy Storage Technology Analysis using PESTLE, Horatiu Corban, Imran Mirza, Aaron Cavanaugh, and Matt Yamamoto