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The Politics of Persuasion: The Save the Redwoods League, the Sierra Club, and the Creation of Redwood National Park, 1964-1968, Joshua Friedlein
Software Version Control Tool, Harshitha Gadirajurrett
Impact of Leadership on Team’s Performance, Harshitha Gadirajurrett, Raj Srinivasan, Jake Stevens, and Nihal Jeena
Framing Race and Blame in the Media: a Case Study on the Chapel Hill Shooting, Sara Abdullatif Galadari
The Impact of the Refugee Crisis on the European Union, Andreea Elena Galan
Squat-able Objects: an Instructional Zine with New Tools for Squatting, Dominic Galen
Working Paper No. 28, Roots of the American Labor Movement, Lillian Garcia
Working Paper No. 29, Lina Khan, New Technologies, and Institutional Reform, Lillian Garcia
Towards a Smaller Housing Paradigm: a Literature Review of Accessory Dwelling Units and Micro Apartments, Thomas Geffner
Bertolt Brecht's Leben des Galilei: a Mythic Dimension in Epic Theatre, Yashowanto Narayan Ghosh
Understanding the Impacts of Urbanization on the Avian Community of Portland Oregon and Evaluation of the Portland Oregon Backyard Habitat Certification Program, Andrew Daniel Gibbs
Anarchism on the Willamette: the Firebrand Newspaper and the Origins of a Culturally American Anarchist Movement, 1895-1898, Alecia Jay Giombolini
African Americans In Portland, A History of Displacement and Exclusion, Brock Gjesdal
Affirmative Consent Endorsement and Peer Norms Supporting Sexual Violence Among Vulnerable Students on College Campuses, Alyssa Marie Glace
Changing Consumer Behavior Towards Mindful Consumption through Social Proof to Decrease Environmental Harm, Vineta I. Gleba
She Calls Me Blue, Lindsay M. Goldman
Comparative Genetic and Genomic Analysis of the Novel Fusellovirus Sulfolobus Spindle-shaped Virus 10, David Andrew Goodman
Waking Students up with Explorations of Metabolic Dormancy: A Pilot Study of the Killifish CURE, Emma Goodwin, Daniel E. Zajic, Jason E. Podrabsky, and Erin E. Shortlidge
Removing Dams, Constructing Science: Watershed Restoration Through a Socio-Eco-Technical Systems Lens, Zbigniew Jakub Grabowski
Public Access to Crime Maps from Police Agencies: Frequency, Agency Characteristics, and Maps Used, Jordan A. Grant and Kris R. Henning
Millennial Perceptions on Homeownership and Financial Planning Decisions, Margaret Ann Greenfield
Choosing the Best Software for Spec Review: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach, Bob Greenlee
Christians and Jerusalem in the Fourth Century CE: a Study of Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, and the Bordeaux Pilgrim, Stephen David Green