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The Influence of Plato’s Symposium: Love and Beauty Throughout Media & Culture, Anna E. Roberts
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Second Language Impacts On First Language Processing, Natalie Robison, Sarah C. Creel, Sarah Elkington, Judith Kelholt, Amy Lin, and Carolyn Quam
Attrition and Assimilation: The Neural Mechanisms of Mandarin-English Bilingualism, Natalie Paige Robison
The Health Risks of Deportation: Impacts of Family Separation on Relationships and Wellbeing in Latinx Communities, Shantay Rhea Rocha
Annual Killifish: Eye Development and Retinal Cell Regeneration, Carmen Z. Rodriguez
Living on the Outskirts of Things: Women and Nonbinary People of Color with Cognitive Disabilities Describe Their Employment Experiences, Laura Spura Rodriguez
The Lewis Acidity of Imidazole-derived Diaryliodonium Zwitterions, Cyrus Rose
Improved Genome Maintenance and DNA Replication in the Anoxia Tolerant Annual Killifish, Riley A. Roth-Carter
FPDR and Portland: A Concerned Accountant's Perspective, Noah Roth
Student Perceptions: How STEM Students Value Belonging Interventions, Elizabeth Runkel Baez
The Arab Spring Uprisings in Geopolitical Context, Jake Alan Rutledge
A Hierarchical Decision Model for Evaluating the Strategy Readiness of Quantitative Machine Learning/Data Science-Driven Investment Strategies, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Used As a Stepping-Stone Towards Face-To-Face Therapy?, Zachary Salcido
Embracing the Oregon Way, Tony Salvador Ph.D.
Differences In Ninth Graders’ Attitudes Towards Math Depending On Immigrant-Generation Status, Karla V. Santana Martinez and Dara Shifrer
Political Movement Through Cultural Identity: Lessons from the Présence Africaine, Ramona Sapru Henderson
Virtual Field Environments Capstone Software Review, Ashton Sawyer
Deriving Analytical Design Constraints For Absolute & Relative Encoding Schemes In Functional Subnetworks, Cody W. Scharzenberger-Braet and Alexander Hunt
One Ring to Rule Them All: Connecting Johann Herder's Romantic Nationalism & Richard Wagner's "The Ring", Eliana Scheele
Three Chapters From a Dayless World, Alex Schotzko
The Genetic Consequences of Pollen and Seed Transport in the Wind, Elizabeth Hendrickson Scott
Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity for Turbulent Wake Development, Ryan Scott
Impacts of Stream Habitat Restoration on Macroinvertebrate Assemblages: A Systematic Literature Review, Morgan E. Seitzer
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Child Separation Anxiety Symptoms, and School Achievement in 1st Grade, Filip-Bogdan Serban-Dragan