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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
"This Revolution Been Televised": Media as a Tool of Justice and an Apparatus of State Violence, Nahal Rastegarpour
Reproductive Rights at Work: The Role of Organizations in Menstrual Support, Emily Julia Ready
Riding Through the Great Depression: The Impact of Pack Horse Librarians, Madison G. Reed
Working Paper No. 106, The Rise and Fall of Whaling in Early America, Miranda Rehaume
The Living Dead on Mount Athos: Monastic Politics of Escape, Patrick Reilly
Estimated Amounts of Terrestrial Carbon Mobilized and Sequestered by the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption, Washington State, USA, Lizzet G. Reyes
Stardust Crucader: Is the Marine Protist Carpediemonas Membranifera the First Known Crucivirus Host?, Marcell D. Richard
The Effect of Mesoscale Frontal Waves on Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation Over the Green River Watershed, Washington, Joseph Michael Riedl
Weak Formulation for Solving Inverse Problems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (With Applications to Learning Dynamical Systems), Victor William Rielly
Barriers Beyond Bars: Examining Experiences of Students with Criminal Records, Anakin Rivera Ramirez
Shanghai's Stateless Immigrants: Anti-Bolshevik Russians in Shanghai from 1917-1949, Anna E. Roberts
Enabling New Synthetic Platforms for Aryne Synthesis with Aryl Thianthrenium Reagents, Riley Augustus Roberts
Stayin' Alive (Even Without Oxygen): Retinal Development in Austrofundulus limnaeus, Carmen Zecilia Rodriguez
The Role of Cultural Mathematical Caring Relations in Supporting Two Latina Undergraduates’ Rate of Change Development within a Constructivist Teaching Experiment: An Anti-Deficit Investigation Bridging Sensemaking and Cultural Experiences, Christopher Orlando Roman
What This Work Really Takes: Lessons, Tensions, and Student Perspectives in a Social Justice Math Classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Roman
Mindful Marcelo: The Process of Writing and Illustrating a Culturally-Specific Children's Book for Early Psychoeducation, Liz Romero-Herrera
An Integrated Multivariate Econometric Modeling Framework for Risky Driving Behavior Related Crashes: Evaluating Crash Risk and Severity Across Zones, Pabitra Kumar Roy
Why Democracy Has Lost the Trust of Modern People in the Modern Era, Erica Rubel
Temporal Modeling and Forecasting of Blood Glucose Dynamics in Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus, MJ Ruff
Online Decision Mamba, Trenton W. Ruf
Navigating the Neoliberal Assemblage: The Role of a Nonprofit Organization Shaping Disaster Governance and Community Resilience, Andrew Michael Russo
An Innovative HDM Model for Assessing Renewable Heat Energy Resources in Utility Energy Systems, Mark Alan Ryan
Expression of BioID2 in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, Brandon Sa
Forecasting Influenza Rates Using Machine Learning: A Study of ChatGPT's Predictive Accuracy, Sara Saleh