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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Assessing Sense of Place and Geo-literacy Indicators as Learning Outcomes of an International Teacher Professional Development Program, Nancee Hunter
Trespass, Veronika Ivanova
Bertolt Brecht: Philosophical Inquiry through Epic Theatre, Jaycob Izso
Development of Middle School Teachers' Knowledge and Pedagogy of Justification: Three Studies Linking Teacher Conceptions, Teacher Practice, and Student Learning, Carolyn McCaffrey James
The Effects of Phosphonic Acids in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Keith Edward James
Teaching the Middle East in Portland Public High Schools, Nicholas C. Jenkins
Thermal Decomposition of Electronic Cigarette Liquids, Robert Paul Jensen
A Landscape Approach to Determining and Predicting Juvenile Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Movement Timing and Growth Patterns Prior to Ocean Entry, Amelia Lee Johnson
What do Physicians Know about Global Plans to Stop Tuberculosis? Interviews from Five Countries, Hannah Johnson
Use of Behavioral Activation Theory to Identify Depression among HIV-Positive Women of Color in the Rural South, Tascha R. Johnson
Starts and Stops: Multimodal Practices for Walking as a Group in an Augmented Reality Place Based Game, Adam McFaul Jones
Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions near Mosier, Oregon, Cullen Brandon Jones
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Long-Term Mentoring Relationships from the Youth Perspective, Kevin Richard Jones
The Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors on Mercury Concentrations and Community Composition of Freshwater Zooplankton, Meredith Powers Jordan
How Felon Disenfranchisement Legislation Alters Citizenship and How it Can Be Challenged, Shanae Jung
Social Capital and Cultural Identity for U.S. Korean Immigrant Families: Mothers' and Children's Perceptions of Korean Language Retention, Su-Jin Sue Jung
Our Table: a Family Cookbook, Karalie M. Juraska
LARC: Local Agricultural Resource Conservation, Dash Justice, Josh Davis, Sid Crumble, and Ashlie Kinney
Investigating the Origin and Functions of a Novel Small RNA in Escherichia coli, Fenil Rashmin Kacharia
Performance Implications of Bicycle Specific Treatments at Signalized Intersections, Andrew Kading
Venture Capital Dynamics: Challenges in Financing Technological Entrepreneurship, Evan Kaeding
More Than a Misunderstood Religion: Rediscovering Vodou as a Tool of Survival and a Vehicle for Independence in Colonial Haiti, Eliza M. Kamerling-Brown
The Effect of pH on the Photoluminescent Properties of Silicon Nanoparticles, Parker Karaba
Determinants of State Firearms Policy Variation, Brandon Paul Kaskawal