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Theses from 2016
Exploring the Negative Perceptions of Female Legislators: the Consequences of Gender Quotas in Argentina, Marcella Silverman
#BlackLivesMatter: This Generation's Civil Rights Movement, Tanika Siscoe
Feminist Outdoor Leadership: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity through Outdoor Education, Amber Smith
Management Plan for Western Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta belli) at Fairview Creek Headwaters, Ashley Smithers
Israeli Agency in the Iran-Contra Affair, Eugene Smith
A Community Engaged Approach to Address Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual Minority Women, Rachel Marie Smith
Physician Quality Reporting System: Initiative to Improve Care for Medicare Beneficiaries, Sara Smith
Masthead, Ethan C. Snyder
Message From The Editors, Ethan C. Snyder and Barbara Payne
More than Meets the Eye: Latino Students in a Two-Way Immersion Program and Stereotype Threat, Edgar Ubaldino Solares Vega
Fitness and Fatness: The Conflation of Weight with Health, and the Consequences of Fat-Shaming, Kristin Spurkland
BEE CAUSE: Is Legislative Action Protecting Bees from Neonicotinoids Justified?, Ursula A. Squire
Exploring the Impact of an LD Diagnosis on the Self-Determination of Women in Poverty, Cynthia Jakes Stadel
Preliminary Design Guidelines for Poraver-Based Lightweight Concrete, Marlow Stanton
Field Geology and Petrologic Investigation of the Strawberry Volcanics, Northeast Oregon, Arron Richard Steiner
Photoemission Electron Microscopy for Analysis of Dielectric Structures and the Goos-Hänchen Shift, Theodore Axel Stenmark
An Examination of Approaches to Domestic Violence Advocacy: Recommendation for Generalizable, Experimental Study, Melanie Stewart
Domestic News, Summer R. Stewart
Language Sample Length Effects on Various Lexical Diversity Measures: An Analysis of Spanish Language Samples from Children, Morgan Stills
Book Review: Aleman, Richard (Ed). The Hound of Distributism: A Solution for Our Social and Economic Crisis, Anthony Philip Stine
Transgender Patients' Experiences of Discrimination at Mental Health Clinics, Corrine Ann Stocking
Potential of Using High Resolution Bus GPS Data to Assess Traffic Speeds, Nicholas B. Stoll
Democratization, Political Performance, and Income Distribution in Argentina and Brazil, Nicholas Paul Stowell
An Investigation into Intermediate Grades Teachers' Noticing of the Mathematical Quality of Instruction, Krista Lynn Strand
The Intermediate Value Theorem as a Starting Point for Inquiry-Oriented Advanced Calculus, Stephen Raymond Strand II