This open access collection of exemplary graduate and undergraduate work includes nearly forty sub-collections: award-winning capstone projects, faculty-mentored research, and peer-reviewed scholarship. Find theses, dissertations, research projects, posters, presentations, articles, and more.
Search the Collection to find a topic or limit by discipline, keyword, date, or publication.
Student work
- comprises one third of PDXScholar.
- includes all PSU theses and dissertations.
- represents 60% of PDXScholar downloads.
- has been downloaded over 10 million times!
- Popular Content
Top 10 downloads - Undergraduate Research Commons
More than 700 publications in our repository network - Browse the Digital Commons Network
Over 500 colleges & universities in our shared repository
Please see the submission guidelines of each journal/event before submitting an online form.
- Journals
- Conferences & Symposia
- Faculty Nomination Form
- Program-specific Submission Forms
- Undergraduate Research Commons (Beyond PSU)
Organized by discipline, search for "Open to All" publications
- Top Downloads/Streams
- Readership Distribution
- PlumX Metrics
Item-level usage, citations, captures, mentions, and social media posts
Learn More: Portland State Research
Bringing the future into focus through groundbreaking research and scholarship
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Analysis of the Acid-Base Balance of Mainstream Tobacco Smoke and its Effect on the Gas/Particle Partitioning of Nicotine, Amy Kathleen DeVita-McBride
Culture Beyond Borders: A Postcolonial Analysis of Multicultural Education, Alex Diaz-Hui
Refining Bounding-Box Regression for Object Localization, Naomi Lynn Dickerson
Fully Generic Programming Over Closed Universes of Inductive-Recursive Types, Larry Diehl
Wicked Water Problems: Can Network Governance Deliver? Integrated Water Management Case Studies from New Zealand and Oregon, USA, Jacqueline Dingfelder
Conversations of Abuse Against Women, Christafien Dixon
Rethink NW 13th: NW 13th Phased Action Plan, Cassandra Dobson, Courtney Simms, Dylan Johnstone, Geoff Gibson, Russ Doubleday, and Santiago Mendez
Investigating Statistics Teachers' Knowledge of Probability in the Context of Hypothesis Testing, Jason Mark Asis Dolor
Turbidity Dynamics during High-Flow Storm Events in the Clackamas River, Oregon 2006-2012, Micelis Clyde Doyle
Learning Assessment of Accuracy of Learning between Musicians and Nonmusicians, Emily M. Drapela
Spotify, Piracy and Patronage: How Consumers Make Decisions Regarding Musical Consumption in the Streaming Age, Joseph K. Drevets
The Voices of Special Educators: How Do Special Educators Teach English Language Learners Who are Receiving Special Education Services?, Elizabeth Ann DuBois
Working-class Black Women’s Role in Building and Sustaining Black Communities in the Pacific Northwest, Tessara G. Dudley
Effects of Future Connected Autonomous Vehicles on Freeway Congestion Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, Vivian Dupont, Henry Janzen, and Hakan Kutgun
Global Intersections: a History of Women's Liberation in Egypt, Jordan Earls
Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Defects, Adsorbates, and Gas Sensing, Micah C. Eastman
Optimizing Student Workforce Scheduling at PSU Office of Information Technology (OIT), Agam Ebramsyah, Aishwarya Joy, Cody Miller, Jake Stevens, and Priyanka Patil
The Emergence of Portland's 'Unique' Homelessness: Does the City's Pattern of Compassion Suggest a New Perspective on Poverty?, Katrina Edelen
Identity and Community in Rural Higher Education: Creating New Pathways to Women's Leadership in Oaxaca, Mexico, Amanda Marie Elder
G5 Mobile Marketing Plan, Agam Embramsyah, Asma Razavi, Catalina Reyes, Cody Miller, William Perreira, and Charles Asafo-Adjei
El capitalismo y el ciudadano del Distrito Federal: Evolución de la identidad en la Ciudad de México en respuesta a los cambios económicos en dos épocas desde la óptica de La región más transparente de Carlos Fuentes y Hotel DF de Guillermo Fadanelli, Douglas Mitchell L. Emison
Predictive Policing on Portland State University's Campus, Kiley D. Enger
Impact Analysis of Increased Dispatchable Resources on a Utility Feeder in OpenDSS, Crystal Eppinger