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Theses from 2024
What are the Psychosocial Effects of Service Dogs on Handlers with Disabilities, Kylie Kline
Promoting Student Engagement in Research in an Undergraduate Language-Development Course, Mitchell Kloer, Isabelle Trujillo, Teresa Roberts, and Carolyn Quam
Working Paper No. 85, Alexis de Tocqueville and the American Wealth Gap, Chloe Kneedler
Moss Biomonitoring of Lead Emissions from Hillsboro Airport, Daria Kolpakov
Systematic Comparison of Reservoir Computing Frameworks, Nihar S. Koppolu and Christof Teuscher
How Beaver-damming Affects Habitat Availability for Northwestern Pond and Western Painted Turtles, Rodé N. Krige
Exploring The Potential Of α-Aryl Substitution Of GdDOTA To Address Challenges Associated With MRI Contrast Agents., Charlene I. Kupara
Resource-constrained 2D Scene Recovery with Single-Photon Cameras, Daphne Ariadne Kurzenhauser
A Contemporary Examination of Racial Intraminority Relations: Attitudes, Motivations, and Barriers to Participation in Collective Action, Jaboa Shawntaé Lake
Inequities in Chronic Stress Exposure at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Identity in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults, Jordan M. Lancaster and Efrain H. Chavez Martinez
Applying Decolonizing Theories and Methodologies in Archaeology to Two Collaborative Cultural Resource Management Projects, Cydney K. Lanthier
Desert: Poems, Eric Larsh
Knowledge of Medicaid Expansion to Recent and Undocumented Immigrants Among Oregon Mexican-origin Latinos: (Work in Progress), Nancy Ledezma, Grace Parra, Alejandra Nunez, and Dr. Blair Darney
Impact of Medical Formula Shortage on Patients with Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) and Their Dietitians, Haemin Lee
Prosodic Analysis of Wh-indeterminate Questions in L2 Korean, Jung In Lee
Prosodic Analysis of Wh-indeterminate Questions in L2 Korean, Jung In Lee
Edward's New Welsh: The Foundations of English Colonialism, 1282-1343, Joshua Lembke
Building Climate Resilience: How Climate Groups Can Channel Anxiety and Grief into Action, Martin J. Lemke
Centering the Leader: An Investigation of Leader-Centric Variables in the Support Provision Process, Jordyn Jan Leslie
Propagation Modeling of Terahertz Reflections and Reflector Design for MIMO Channel, Thanh Ngoc Dan Le
Talking Yourself Up: Multimodal Conversation Analysis of Status in an Improvised Setting, Aubrey LeWarne
Native American and First-Nations Canadian and Physical PFAS Accumulations: A Literature Review, Laurel Liebeseller