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Bridgeless to Better Burnside: Reclaiming Burnside, Reconnecting the West Side, Michael Azierski, Brian Bill, Eric Gasper, Alex Gill, Jackson Morrison, and Michel Rojas
Magma Evolution and Eruptive History of Three Fingered Jack: A Mafic Composite Volcano in the Central High Cascades of Oregon, Javaria Aziz
Surveying Management Strategies for Pediatric Autoimmune Hepatitis, Lillie Baca
Teaching From Past Example: Various Interpretations of Livy's Rape of Lucretia, June Baeck
Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball
Changing Minds, Changing Modes: Optimizing Public Perception Strategies for Urban Cycling Through Behavior Change Theory, Brandon Barnhart
Indigenous Futures: Decolonizing Conservation and Restoring Ecological Sovereignty, Jasmine Beach
"We're Not Gonna Take It": The Parents' Music Resource Center and Reformist Tendencies in American Society, Nathaniel Todd Belcik
Oregon’s Compulsory Education Act: Americanism, Nativism, and Assimilation, Andrea M. Bell
Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell
Identifying the Drivers Behind the Decline of Douglas-fir and True Fir Species in SW Oregon, Alexander Bryant Bentley
Working Paper No. 102, Knowledge and Power: Towards anIntellectual Biography of Michel Foucault, Amanda Bergeson
Effect of IPV on Latino Children's Perspectives of Fatherhood, Elizabeth Berks
"The Biggest Outing of the Year": Hops, Harvest, and the Making of Oregon's Largest Annual Gathering, 1880-1930, Asher Bernick-Roehr
The Power of Positive Lesbian Representation in Television: How it Affects the Well-Being and Identity Formation of LGBTQ+ Adults, Brittany Berry
The Silk Butterfly Effect: Japan and the United States 1853-1941, Melodee Birlew
The Call of Cucurrucucú, Rachel Olivia Blair
What is Known About the Psychological Impacts of Acting, and Where Are the Gaps?, Elizabeth Blaydoe
Occurrence of Pesticides in Oregon Coastal Waters and Effects on the Intertidal Sea Anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima, Gabriella Mae Bleil
Dog Days, William Conrad Boechler