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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
Policy Analysis: Minimum Wage in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Aaron Kaufman
AutoMap, Devender Kaur, Anna Mary Mathew, Mitsutaka Shirasaki, Michael Smith, and Jacob Yang
Resource Management Center Optimization for Northwest Natural Gas, Achala Kaushikkar, Andrew Dang, Colette Marthaller, Rudy Barce, and Sneha Prabhu
Clarice Skin Devices, Achala Kaushikkar, Jessie Truong, Soheil Zarrin, and Touraj Goudarznia
Educational Scheduling as a Mixed Integer Programming Model, Will Kearney, Sonimar Poppe, Niguel Morfin, and Asrar Ahmed Syed
The Impacts of Microaggressions on the Performance of Multiracial and Monoracial College Students, Jasmine S. Keith
Abusive Supervision in the Workplace: An Examination of Current Research and a Proposal for Preventive Measures, Samantha Kemper
Improving the Roadside Environment through Integrating Air Quality and Traffic-Related Data, Christine M. Kendrick
"Like Drinking Water Out of a Fire Hydrant" Medical Education as Transformation: A Naturalistic Inquiry Into the Physician Assistant Student Experience, Patricia Kenney-Moore
Biofouling Management in the Pacific Northwest and Predation on Native versus Non-native Ascidians, Erin Suzanne Kincaid
Music in the Hapsburg Empire 1750-1850, Alexander S. Klas
Star Academics: Do They Garner Increasing Returns?, James Jeffrey Kline
Mills and Veblen: An Institutional Analysis, Matthew Klosterman
Systems Thinking in the Forest Service: a Framework to Guide Practical Application for Social-Ecological Management in the Enterprise Program, Megan Kathleen Kmon
Physics-Based Imaging Methods for Terahertz Nondestructive Evaluation Applications, Gabriel Paul Kniffin
Empress Matilda: Always the Consort, Never the Queen, Sadie M. Kok-Carlson
The Link Between Artemisia Gentileschi’s Biography and Her Artistic Oeuvre, Emma Komers