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Magma Evolution and Eruptive History of Three Fingered Jack: A Mafic Composite Volcano in the Central High Cascades of Oregon, Javaria Aziz
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 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
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
Mental Health in Prisons: Examining Variations in Disorders Across Custody Levels, Ariel Bysiek