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Theses from 2014
Youth Engagement and Portland Neighborhood Associations, Kelly Sellers
Innovation at Google, Kshiti Shah, Nameer Al-Mulla, Mario Bitzer, and Josh Caldwell
Building and Maintaining Plankhouses at Two Villages on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America, Emily Evelyn Shepard
Style Shifting in First-encounter Conversations between Japanese Speakers, Kenichi Shinkuma
Nella Larsen's Passing and Color Theory: Beyond Black & White, Jeff Shoemaker
Automatic Calibration of Water Quality and Hydrodynamic Model (CE-QUAL-W2), Nasim Shojaei
Testing the Ecological and Physiological Factors Influencing Reproductive Success in Mosses, Erin Elizabeth Shortlidge
Dialogue in Identity-Based Conflict (Study of Intergroup-Dialogue with University Students), Lisha Shrestha
Open-Access Crystallography Database Administration: Preparation and Upload of 400 Structures, Justin Shuck
Bridging the Future to Postsecondary Readiness, Brian Patrick Sien
Health and Well-being of Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy, Susan Elizabeth Sienko
Exploring Colonization and Ethnogenesis through an Analysis of the Flaked Glass Tools of the Lower Columbia Chinookans and Fur Traders, Stephanie Catherine Simmons
Property Tax Rates as an Indicator of Neighborhood Change: An Examination of an Unanticipated Effect of Measure 50 in the City of Portland, Sonia N. Singh
Adult Returning Students and Proportional Reasoning: Rich Experience and Emerging Mathematical Proficiency, Ann Sitomer
International Perspectives on Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba, B. Danielle Smith
Cross-Cutting Concerns: The Varying Effects of Partisan Cues in the Context of Social Networks, Benjamin King Smith
The Contributions of St. Cyprian: Perspectives on Epidemiology and Early Christianity, Iris M. Smith
Project NANO: Will Allowing High School Students To Use Research Grade Scanning Electron Microscopes Increase Their Interest in Science?, Leslie TenEyck Smith
Strengthening United Nation’s Global Human Rights Policies against Exploitation by Multinational Corporations in South East Asia, Marcellius Smith
Historical Vegetation of Three Salmon-Bearing Watersheds in the Interior Columbia River Basin, Tyanna Smith
Using GIST Features to Constrain Search in Object Detection, Joanna Browne Solmon
Controlling the Empire: Measuring Ethnic Residential Segregation in London, 2001-2011, Lindsay Joella Spell
Multi-Perspective Technology Assessment to Improve Decision Making: A Novel Approach Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for a Large-Scale Transmission Line Upgrade, Richard Chad Sperry