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Submissions from 2015
Team Progress Report, Ahmed Al Shareef, Felix Sie, Nithin Yadav Nimmala Ramesh, and Sudipta Tripathy
Virtual Teams: How Cultural Diversity Impacts Communication in Geographically Spread Teams, Ahmed Al Shareef, Felix Sie, Nithin Yadav Nimmala Ramesh, and Sudipta Tripathy
A Town on Fire: The Copperfield Affair of 1914, Daniel Joseph Shepard
The Multilevel Effects of Supervisor Adaptability on Training Effectiveness and Employee Job Satisfaction, Joseph Alvin Sherwood
Measure Change in the Overall Benefit Index of Portland's Residents if Uber Transport Network Company is Permitted to Operate: Expressing Decision Parameters in NonLinear Programming, Mitsutaka Shirasaki, Shihab Hanayneh, Michael Smith, and Sridharkumar Paneerselvam
Impact Of New Technologies On Traditional Transportation Industries, Mitsutaka Shirasaki, Michael Smith, and Ali Al Suliman
Energy Efficiency Analysis: Portland State University - East Hall, Mitsutaka Shirasaki, Chih-jen Yu, Yongjun Lee, Pallavi Sandanshiv, and Qin Guo
Economic Evaluation of Lease vs Buy Option For Electric Vehicles (EV), Felix Sie, Pratheek Chintala, Purva Chhatre, Raghunath Viswanatha, and Yasaswi Deepak Kancherla
Selecting the Best Laptop for College Graduate Students, Felix Sie, Rafaa Khalifa, Raghunath Viswanatha, and Yasaswi Deepak Kancherla
A FIFA Sustainable Soccer Field in Every City (Pilot Project), Felix Sie, Joao Lavoie, Rafaa Khalifa, and Ross Lamberth
Marketing Strategy forTransferWise, Felix Sie, Jared Omulindi, Ahmed Shebab Alshereef, and David Wigen
Investigations of Larval Pacific Lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus Osmotic Stress Tolerance and Occurrence in a Tidally-Influenced Estuarine Stream, Gregory Shell Silver
Caring for the Land, Serving People: Creating a Multicultural Forest Service in the Civil Rights Era, Donna Lynn Sinclair
The Storyteller's Trance in the Turn of the Screw, Leslie C. Slape
Opportunity Identification: Data Privacy of US Individuals, Timothy Slevin-Vegdahl, Soheil Zarrin, Lisa Kain, and Joshua Schmidt
Investigations of the Air-Water Interface: A Structural Analysis of Metallic Surface Films and Aquatic Surface Films by Comparative Microscopy, Randall William Smith
Inspiring Action: Measuring the Effect of Motivational Frames on Social Movement Mobilization, Rebecca Louise Smith
Technicalities: a Memoir, Shelley Smith
Promotion of Thriving in Youth: The Intersections of the Positive Youth Development Perspective and Challenge Course Programming, Zachary H. Snyder
Annual Energy Outlook, Pooya Soltantabar
Spellbound: the Process of Adaptation, Amanda Sonju
Leadership and Decision-Making Skills of High Poverty Elementary School Principals in an Era of Reduced Resources, Kevin Eugene Spooner
The Blue Heron Wetland Restoration Project: Eradication of Ludwigia peploides ssp. montevidensis from the Blue Heron Wetlands of Portland, OR, Alexander Staunch
Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society (LAB): Bridging The Gap Between Coursework And Career, Adriana Stein and Stefanie Berganini