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One-Dimensional Nanostructure and Sensing Applications: Tin Dioxide Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes, Hoang Anh Tran
Slavery: The Main Ingredient to an Ancient Greek Polis' Military Dominance, Steven T. Tran
Foreign Word Alert, Foreign Word Alert: Rethinking Editorial Approaches to the Italicization of Foreign Terms, Katey Trnka
Human Trafficking and Potential Solutions in the Russian Federation, Phil Turoff
Curriculum Impact on Educational Philosophy Identification, Rebecca Tuttle
3D FPGA Cell Matrix by Self-assembly, Jeffrey Udall
Oregon Youth Peer Courts: Grand Jury Style, Sierra Udland
Aquifer Vulnerability Modeling in New Jersey Through the Use of Modified DRASTIC Methodology, Clement Uduk and Tanja Hopmans
Wind Turbine Demolition Proposal, Timothy Valentine, Horatiu Corban, and Randy Mueller
The Politics of Water in Mexico City, Richelle Van Dusen
Battery Technologies for Demand Response Systems, Edwin Vilanova Velez, Sejoong Kim, Scott Fabini, and James Bowen
Halprin Sequence Reimagined, Andrea Villarroel, Nate Miller, Kris Decker, Foster Gough, and Scott Robinson
"On This, We Shall Build": the Struggle for Civil Rights in Portland, Oregon 1945-1953, Justin LeGrand Vipperman
Bridging Cultural Differences in Virtual Teams: An Analysis of Chinese/American Teams, Brea Viratos, Bryan Trotter, Donavon Nigg, Haitham Alkharboosh, and Kimberleigh Reid
Relationships that Extend Beyond the Fence-Line: Private Landowner Attitudes and Interest in Conservation Easements, Ashley Lyn Vizek
The Village Market: New Columbia Goes Shopping for Food Justice, Jane Therese Waddell
Downtown Revitalized, Community Organized: a Comparative Analysis of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Portland, Oregon, Amber Wagoner
Women in Power: The Unique Position of Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome, Elizabeth D. Walker
Molecular Probes for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging, Lei Wang
Use of Distance Weighted Metrics to Investigate Landscape-Stream Temperature Relationships Across Different Temporal Scales, Eric Craig Watson
The Sensorimotor Approach to Color Perception and the Necessity of Socio-cultural Considerations for Color Naming, Matthew Watts
The Effectiveness of Participation in a Project-based Learning Project on At-risk Student Self-Efficacy, Benjamin Aaron Weber
A Question of Belief: The Narrative of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Madison Wegener
Virtual Teams and How to Build Trust, Nicole Wehner, Tejas Deshpande, Pooja Mane, Gordon Chen, and Timothy Valentine
Phylogeography of Two Species of the Genus Apochthonius Chamberlin, 1929, in the Pacific Northwest (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones), Brandi Lynn Welch