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Black and Green: How Disinvestment, Displacement and Segregation Created the Conditions For Eco-Gentrification in Portland's Albina District, 1940-2015, Carter William Ause
Citizen-led Urban Agriculture and the Politics of Spatial Reappropriation in Montreal, Quebec, Claire Emmanuelle Bach
Review: A Novel Multiple Sclerosis Model Utilizing Cuprizone and Rapamycin, Mara Bahri
Who Matters?: Effective Classroom Management Strategies for Multicultural Elementary Education, Erica Bailey-Ramos
Sex-Specific Fungal Communities of the Dioicous Moss Ceratodon purpureus, Mehmet Ali Balkan
Managing Virtual Teams: Trust and Cohesion, Bhawinee Banchongraksa, David Burchfield, Jessie Truong, Chuan Chieh Lu, and Revathy Narayanan
Driving Factors For Technology Companies To Establish An Outpost In The Silicon Forest, Melody Bandlamudi, Chuan Chieh Lu, Mahija Daliparthi, Scott Fabini, Hakan Kutgun, and Sriharika Patibanda
The Rise and Fall of Human Dissection in Hellenistic Alexandria, Ellie H. Barany
PSU OIT Shift Scheduling Optimization, Husam Barham, Justin Moore, Maoloud Dabab, and Nader Beltaif
The Terroir of Pinot Noir Wine in the Willamette Valley, Oregon : A Broad Analysis of Vineyard Soils, Grape Juice and Wine Chemistry, Kathryn Nora Barnard
The Investigation and Optimization of a Two-Heat-Pump System Incorporating Thermal Storage for Shaping Residential Heating Load, Emily Lord Barrett
"Like a Parasite Dozing in the Gut": Idleness and Tending in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K, Patrick Barrett
An Investigation of School-Based Specific Learning Disability Identification, Bonnie Heather Bartos
Inequality, Position, and Perception: Understanding and Addressing Workplace Harassment in Oregon's Construction Trades, Sasha Mae Bassett
Survivorship and Breeding Dispersal Patterns of a Migratory, Socially Monogamous Passerine; the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus), Adam John Becker
Greenroof Study: Final Report, an Assessment of Greenroof Design and Maintenance in Portland, Oregon: 2011 – 2013, Windy Carney Beck
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Structure from Motion Biomass Inventory Estimates, Emily Jane Bedell
Binti: Daughter of Arab America, Melika Valentine Belhaj
Trans* Folks in Motion: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals' Experiences of Transit and Transit Spaces, Jade Benner
Union Park, Kristina Benson, Tyler DuBois, Chad Encinas, Mackenzie Kisiel, Colin Kelley, Andrew Lords, Daniel Silvey, Deb Scott, and Joseph Welliver
Pathway 1000 Community Housing Plan, Kaitlin Berger, Anna Dearman, Beth Gilden, Karen Guillén-Chapman, and Jasmine Rucker
How Calculus Students at Successful Programs Talk About Their Instructors, Annie Bergman, Dana Kirin, and Ben Wallek
Anticommercial Purposes: New Methods in Graphic Design and Radical Environmental Change, Nina Berry
Carbon Dioxide Concentrations: An Examination of Carbon Sequestration via Global Reforestation, Jordan Bertagnolli