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Exploring Health Equity with Culturally Specific Providers of Permanent Supportive Housing, Judith Solomon
Exploring Health Equity with Culturally Specific Providers of Permanent Supportive Housing, Judith R. Solomon
Is Ride-Hailing a Potential Solution for Older Adults After Driving Cessation? The Role of Objective and Perceived Accessibility, Minju Kim Song
Young Adults’ Views on Personal Death, Victor N. Soto
Hydrosocial Ocean Commons: Offshore Wind Energy in Oregon, Bryce Ashlyn Sprauer
An Exposition of "Probabilistic Polynomials and Hamming Nearest Neighbors", Vivek Srirama
Indigenous Language Revitalization: The Klamath and Cherokee Tribes, Josephine Stapleton
Did Dobbs Reduce the Supreme Court's Legitimacy?, Ava Steinmetz
Orphan Basalts: Understanding the Origins of Unassigned Eastern Oregon Basalts, Angela Rae Stetson
“Through Science to Justice” Magnus Hirschfeld’s Role in Queer Liberation, Katarina L. Stoll
A Study on Fuzzy Time-Series and its Applications to Stock Price Forecasting, Takeshi Stormer
Analyzing National War Propaganda Through Comparison of Diverse Case Studies, Ike Sugitani
The Influence of Ethnic Racial Identity on the Critical Consciousness of Asian American College Students, Aliyah Sukkram
How the U.S. Can Protect Taiwan in the 21st Century, Zachary Surmacz
Assessing Behavioral Health Services in Oregon's Rural Health Clinics, Sanya M. Surya
Psilocybin and Death Anxiety: A Dual-Mechanism Approach to Existential Distress, Annabelle Swain
Is Education Regulation the Solution to Help Lower Substance Use Rates and Substance Use Disorder in Oregon Youth?, Sophia R. Swain
A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo
Quantitative Analysis Using MRI of Patients That Are High Risk for Pancreatic Cancer, Aqsa Tarik
Characterizing Secondary Flow Structures Over Scaled Solar Arrays and Investigating Impact of System Yaw Angle, Katie Nicole Taylor
Impacts of Parent Separation Within Siblings: A Literature Review, Araceli Tello Hernandez
The Impact of NICU Death on Bereaved Mothers, Jennie Terranova
Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms, Alexandra Gabrielle Tissot
The Effects of TFEα and Promoter Sequence on Early Events in Archaeal Transcription Initiation, Madolyn Toli
Mourning Doves: Father's Daughter, Julia Trujillo