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Submissions from 2016
Aspirational Planning: A Statistical Model of Hawthorne Bridge and Tilikum Crossing Bicycle Ride Counts, Robert McCullough, Ramon Cabauatan, and Jacob Gellman
Plato's Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Emmanuelle M. McKinney
Breaking Boundaries: The Worth of Women in the Merovingian Period, Rachel R. McKinnon
Intercultural Interactions Among Burmese Refugees in Multicultural Middle School Classrooms, Matthew Carl McParker
Lobbying the European Parliament: Identifying Changing Trends Post-Treaty of Lisbon, Jason Means
Designing Black Watch: How Being a Military Spouse Shaped My Creation of the Set Design for a Play about War, Nichole Meehl
Finding the Missing Links: A Comparison of Social Network Analysis Methods, Shawn James Mehess
Assessment of a Mycorrhizal Fungi Application to Treat Stormwater in an Urban Bioswale, Alaina Diane Melville
Information Literacy in the First Year of Higher Education: Faculty Expectations and Student Practices, Meredith Esther Michaud
Time Spent Away, Andrew Mitin
Immediate and Short-Term Effects of Kinesio® Taping on Lower Trunk Range of Motion in Division I Athletes, Hoshito Mizutani
Animal Hoarding: An In Depth Look at the Issues and Interventions, Amanda Mooneyham
An Exquisite Loneliness: Ruin and Rebirth in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Mackenzie Rae Myers
The Other Lives of Ribosomal Proteins, Metrah M. Nader
Wax, Jac Jeanette Nelson
Ethiopian Land Politics: Imperial Land Traditions 1889-1974, Wonde Nevens
The Peer Network as a Context for the Socialization of Academic Engagement, Linda Mary Newton-Curtis
Structural Design Issues of "Hexapod" Foundations for Wind Turbine Towers, Chad A. Norvell
Math and Sudoku: Exploring Sudoku Boards Through Graph Theory, Group Theory, and Combinatorics, Kyle Oddson
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as an Alternative Therapy for Chronic Pain, Kayla Ohlgren
A Systems Approach to Stress and Resilience in Humans: Mindfulness Meditation, Aging, and Cognitive Function, Barry S. Oken
Japanese Dialect Ideology from Meiji to the Present, Nao Okumura
Accuracy of Wave Speeds Computed from the DPG and HDG Methods for Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves, Nicole Michelle Olivares