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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Village Market: New Columbia Goes Shopping for Food Justice, Jane Therese Waddell
Downtown Revitalized, Community Organized: a Comparative Analysis of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Portland, Oregon, Amber Wagoner
Women in Power: The Unique Position of Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome, Elizabeth D. Walker
Molecular Probes for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging, Lei Wang
Use of Distance Weighted Metrics to Investigate Landscape-Stream Temperature Relationships Across Different Temporal Scales, Eric Craig Watson
The Sensorimotor Approach to Color Perception and the Necessity of Socio-cultural Considerations for Color Naming, Matthew Watts
The Effectiveness of Participation in a Project-based Learning Project on At-risk Student Self-Efficacy, Benjamin Aaron Weber
A Question of Belief: The Narrative of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Madison Wegener
Virtual Teams and How to Build Trust, Nicole Wehner, Tejas Deshpande, Pooja Mane, Gordon Chen, and Timothy Valentine
Phylogeography of Two Species of the Genus Apochthonius Chamberlin, 1929, in the Pacific Northwest (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones), Brandi Lynn Welch
Niche Television Content, Taya Welter
Collective Intervention: an Analysis of the Political Issues Regarding Secession, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty in the Republic of Kosovo, Benjamin Werthan
From Street to Home: Using Photovoice to Better Understand Homelessness in Portland, Maximilian West; Greg Townley PhD; Nicole Cerra MPH; and Ted Amann RN, MPH
Surviving Catastrophe: Resource Allocation and Plant Interactions Among the Mosses of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Trevor David Williams
Building Brand and Community: Tracing the Impact of NonBook Literary Programming on Book Publishers' Economic and Cultural Capital, Hayley Wilson
A Utility-Scale Deployment Project of Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage for Use in Ancillary Services, Energy Resiliency, Grid Infrastructure Investment Deferment, and Demand-Response Integration, Joseph Nathanael Wilson
Online Education/Graduate Programs in Engineering Management: Benchmarking Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Alexis Wittman, Bashair Al Saglab, Chengjun Li, Sejoong Kim, and Tanzila Akhter
Large Length Scale Capillary Fluidics: From Jumping Bubbles to Drinking in Space, Andrew Paul Wollman
Insulin-like Growth Factor Pathway Described in Austrofundulus limnaeus Diapause and Escape Embryos, Steven Cody Woll
Origin and Use of Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Case Study of Three Math Teachers and Their Students, Christopher Neal Wood
Anarchism in Book Publishing: An Exploration of Business and Ethics, Alexis M. Woodcock
Stellar Works: Searching for the Lives of Women in Science, Jennifer Elizabeth Woodman
The Design of a Simple, Spiking Sparse Coding Algorithm for Memristive Hardware, Walt Woods
Asbestos Exposure in Demolition: an Analysis of Abatement Practices and Alternatives to Demolition, Allison Woolverton
Looking to the Future of Education: A Social Art Practice Pedagogy, Alexis Xochihua