This open access collection of exemplary graduate and undergraduate work includes nearly forty sub-collections: award-winning capstone projects, faculty-mentored research, and peer-reviewed scholarship. Find theses, dissertations, research projects, posters, presentations, articles, and more.
Search the Collection to find a topic or limit by discipline, keyword, date, or publication.
Student work
- comprises one third of PDXScholar.
- includes all PSU theses and dissertations.
- represents 60% of PDXScholar downloads.
- has been downloaded nearly 10 million times!
- Popular Content
Top 10 downloads - Undergraduate Research Commons
More than 700 publications in our repository network - Browse the Digital Commons Network
Over 500 colleges & universities in our shared repository
Please see the submission guidelines of each journal/event before submitting an online form.
- Journals
- Conferences & Symposia
- Faculty Nomination Form
- Program-specific Submission Forms
- Student Journals (Beyond PSU)
- Undergraduate Research Commons (Beyond PSU)
Organized by discipline, search for "Open to All" publications
- Top Downloads/Streams
- Readership Distribution
- PlumX Metrics
Item-level usage, citations, captures, mentions, and social media posts
Learn More: Portland State Research
Bringing the future into focus through groundbreaking research and scholarship
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Managing for Resistance and Resilience of Northern Great Lakes Forests to the Effects of Climate Change, Matthew Joshua Duveneck
Macroinvertebrates and Excessive Fine Sediment Conditions in Oregon Coastal Streams, Patrick M. Edwards
Elaborating Patient Agency in Breast-Cancer Care: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Patients Asserting Treatment Preferences, Rachel Sofia Erdman
Illuminating the Experiences of Single Fathers, Heidi Rosa Esbensen
Mediating Academic Success: Race, Class, Gender and Community College Persistence, Schaylee Marie Esparza
The Impact of Economic Integration within the European Union as a Factor in Conflict Transformation and Peace-Building, John Umo Ette
;(, Robert Eversmann
Home, Timothy Dermot Faiella
2014 Innovation Challenge Event Program, Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
The Media’s Presentation of The Second Chance Act: Funding for Reentry Following Prison, a content analysis, Ailene Joyce Farkac
Classification of Four Meteorite Samples, Karla Farley
An Analysis of Bicycle-Vehicle Interactions at Signalized Intersections with Bicycle Boxes, William Robert Farley
Confined Mesoscopic Fluid-like Films Analyzed with Frequency Modulation and Acoustic Detection, Rodolfo Fernandez Rodriguez
LifeBrace: The Advanced Health Tracking Wristband, Jeremy Ferrando, Dylan O'Brien, Daniel Ortiz, and Jonah Paivarinta
The Design, Implementation, Assessment, and Evaluation of a Power Systems Protection Laboratory Curriculum, Jennifer Ferris
A Study of the Impacts of Corporate Culture Initiatives – MVV, Daragh Finn, Sara Bahrini, and Justin Krueger
Finex Marketing Plan, Daragh Finn, Viktoria Boss, Lukas Kessler, Justin Krueger, and Amitabha Worcester
Synthesis of Irreversible Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions to Reversible EOSOPS Circuits with PSE Gates, Robert Adrian Fiszer
The Small Volume Autonomous Water Sampler (SVAWS): An Innovative, Cost- Effective, Adaptable Protocol, Nicholas B. Fitzgerald
School District Bond Campaigns: Strategies That Ensure Successful Outcomes, Linda L. Florence
Learning to Read (Gender): Children’s Animation and the New Heterosexism, Kaelyn Flowerday
Aristotle's Rhetoric: The Power of Words and the Continued Relevance of Persuasion, Claire Floyd-Lapp
Exploring Communicative Aspects of Client Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Retention in a Private, Non-profit Organization: A Qualitative, Interview-Based Study of Catholic Charities, Amanda Michelle Fortin
Predicting Bicyclist Comfort in Protected Bike Lanes, Nicholas Mark-Andrew Foster