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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 an Intellectual Biography of Michel Foucault, Amanda Bergeson
Effect of IPV on Latino Children's Perspectives of Fatherhood, Elizabeth Berks
The Silk Butterfly Effect: Japan and the United States 1853-1941, Melodee Birlew
What is Known About the Psychological Impacts of Acting, and Where Are the Gaps?, Elizabeth Blaydoe
Dog Days, William Conrad Boechler
The Potential for Improv as a Therapeutic Tool in the Context of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Suggestions for DBT Clinicians, Jocelyn Borden
Begin Again: blooming, Samantha Hope Boulgarides
Risk Factors for Substance Use Among Serious and Violent Offenders Undergoing Reentry, Elizabeth Bozarth
Trees, Schools, & Stakeholders: Building Partnerships for Schoolyard Greening With Portland Urban Forestry Learning Landscapes, Claire Brase
Framing Economic Inequality on TikTok: A Qualitative Analysis of Gen Z's Engagement Across Three Issues, Braydan Brown
Is Sharing Always Caring: Critical Discourse Analysis on the Parasociality of Family Influencing Content on TikTok, Riley Brown
Near Real-Time Prediction of Ground PM2.5 Concentrations Across Oregon Using GEOS-CF and Machine Learning Models, Long T. Bui
How to Kill a Human: Creating an Immersive Learning Game, Théo Caldwell and Nathan Bonnell
Their Will is Wealth: American Billionaires, Illiberal Capital, and their Immunity to Federal Law, Conor Kawika Carroll
A Capstone Review: Bi-Lateral Growth of Outdoor and Business Skills, Ben Casteel
Association between Arsenic and other heavy metal exposures through drinking water and food with lung function and respiratory symptoms: A cross-sectional study, Sofia I. Chapela Lara and Seth O'Neal MD, MPH for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
How the Cheating of East and West Germany Reveals a Global Trend of Doping in International Sports, Olivia L. Cheng Miss
Tweeting the Past, Present, and Future of Social Welfare: Public Political Speech, Cultural Resonance, and Debates about Defunding the Police, Kevin Noel Cherry
A Mixed-Methods Study on Extended Parental Separation Among Mexican and Central American Immigrants: Insights From Legal Violence and the Stress Process, Natalie J. Cholula