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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Learning From Culturally Specific Programs and Their Impact on Latino Parent Engagement, Analucia Lopezrevoredo
Project Proposal/WIP: Exploring Trends in Oregon Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Scores between and within districts and schools, Kylie Loutit and Jamie Peterson
Writing Through It, Casey M. Lowrey
It's Not Just the White Girl: How Higher Education Professionals Support Transgender Survivors of Sexual Assault, Hanna E. Luckett
Marie Kondo and the New Self-Help, Kristen Ludwigsen
Mathematical Modeling of Vaccinations: Modified SIR Model, Vaccination Effects, and Herd Immunity, Tina Huyen Luong
An Investigation of the Impact of High School Student Fine Arts Course Accumulation on Mathematics Course Achievement, Daniel Mackin Freeman
“It Lurks in the Saying, Not What’s Being Said”: Possible Worlds Theory and Gender Performativity in Marina Carr’s Low in the Dark, Andie Madsen and Susan Reese
Fault Deformation at the Base of and within the Crescent Formation along the Dosewallips River, Olympic Mountains Peninsula, Washington, USA, Christine Meryl Maher
An Examination of Non-waged Labor and Local Food Movement Growth in the Southern Appalachians, Amy Kathryn Marion
Large-Scale DER Aggregations of Electric Water Heaters and Battery Inverter Systems, Kevin Marnell
Making Imaginaries: Identity, Value, and Place in the Maker Movement in Detroit and Portland, Stephen Joseph Marotta
Translation Wars: The Influence of Semantics and Translation on the More-Tyndale Polemic, Annika H. Marshall
Transformation of TFB2 Overexpression Plasmid into Hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus COM1, Brent Marsonette
Examining Human Behavior and Tool Use through Experimental Replications and a Technological Analysis of Ground Stone in the Lower Columbia, Kelley Prince Martinez
Suicidal Ideation and Mindfulness Practice in LGBTQ Youth, McKenna R. Martin
The Tangle of Institutional Care and Control at a Shelter for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, Liat Tzvia Mayer
May Issue vs. Shall Issue Concealed Carry Laws: an Exploration of the Breakdown of Crime, Victim Relationship and Location, Patrick R. Mazzella and Christopher Carey
The Cosmological Empire of Pliny the Elder: an Examination of Political Themes in the Second Book of the Historia Naturalis, Kevin Alan McCormick
Lloyd Urban Village (LUV), East Portland, Shellee McCullick, Cait Olds, Eriko Shimada, Damon Tidwell, Eric Zechenelly, and Nikki Zhao
Visual Characteristics of the Mockumentary Format, Connor J. McGarry
An Evaluation of Clackamas County's Transition Center Using Propensity Score Modeling, Alicia de Jong McKay
Working Paper No. 50, Alexis de Tocqueville on American 'Exceptionalism', Zachary McKinster
The Relationship between Teachers' Perceptions of a Lack of Parent/Family Support and Teachers' Self-Efficacy, Carson S. McNamara