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Barriers to Transitional Housing Access among Homeless Male Adults in the City of Portland, Alexander T. Raines
Operation Research Final Team Project, Akash Ramakrishna, Bhavana Ramesh, Devdeep Aikath, and Lei Wei
Market Plan: Edible Water Bottle for Pepsico, Akash Ramakrishna, Bhavana Ramesh, Asrar Ahmed Syed, Apeksha Gupta, and Dmitriy Moskovkin
Website Development Proposal for a Sportswear Company, Akash Reddy, Obinna Charles Mbagwu, Qin Guo, and Yaser Alnasri
Formulation of Colloidal Suspensions of 3-mercaptopropionic acid capped PbS Quantum Dots as Solution Processable QD "Inks" for Optoelectronic Applications, Chase Collier Reinhart
Teacher Mindfulness in the Middle School Classroom: Reliability and Validity of a New Scale, Nicolette Paige Rickert
Standing on the Street Corners of Capitalism : Translations of Tawara Machi's Chocolate Revolution Tanka, Jared Ridabock
The Implications of Contract Manufacturing for a Company’s Brand Equity, Jeremy Riley
Engineered Mushing Cooker, Aimee Ritter
Escritos para desocupados (2013) de Vivian Abenshushan: de contraensayos, libros aumentados y vanguardias de liberación, Gloria M. Robayo Trujillo
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Light Rail and Gentrification in Portland, Oregon, Nathan Eric Rochester
Seeing the Forest for the Roads: Auto-Tourism and Wilderness Preservation in Mount Hood National Forest, 1913-64, Taylor Elliott Rose
The Russian-German Exiles in Kazakhstan: 1940 & 1990 Migrations, Irina Rudenko
Gretchen Kafoury: The Personal is Political, Corinne Rupp
Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Beams with CFRP Strands, Yasir Matloob Saeed
Differences in How Boomers and Millennials Experience Listening to Recorded Music, Pablo Saldana
Narratives of Native American Women and Tribal Courts: the Framing of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 in Mainstream, Native American, and Tribal Press Coverage, Alesha Marie Sangster
Ribozyme/Duplex Binding Interactions as a Thermodynamic Basis for Chemical Game Theory, Elizabeth Satterwhite
Orthomorphisms of Boolean Groups, Nichole Louise Schimanski
Creating a Learning Continuum: A Critical Look at the Intersection of Prior Knowledge, Outdoor Education, and Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Ideas and Practices, Trisha Leigh Schlobohm
Practical Wired Digital Communications Link Analysis, Raymond Matthew Schmelzer
Front Matter Volume 10, 2016, McNair Scholars Program
Three Novel Seminaphthorhodamines: Synthesis, Structure, and Spectral Properties, Chris Schweizer