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Events from 2014

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The Contributions of St. Cyprian: Perspectives on Epidemiology and Early Christianity, Iris M. Smith

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Project NANO: Will Allowing High School Students To Use Research Grade Scanning Electron Microscopes Increase Their Interest in Science?, Leslie TenEyck Smith

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Strengthening United Nation’s Global Human Rights Policies against Exploitation by Multinational Corporations in South East Asia, Marcellius Smith

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Historical Vegetation of Three Salmon-Bearing Watersheds in the Interior Columbia River Basin, Tyanna Smith

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How Securitization is Affecting the Relationship Between the United States and Putin’s Russia: A Study of Securitization vs. Authoritarianism, Zoe Smolen

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Using GIST Features to Constrain Search in Object Detection, Joanna Browne Solmon

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Controlling the Empire: Measuring Ethnic Residential Segregation in London, 2001-2011, Lindsay Joella Spell

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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

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"Del Campo Ya Pasamos a Otras Cosas--From the Field We Move on to Other Things": Ethnic Mexican Narrators and Latino Community Histories in Washington County, Oregon, Luke Sprunger

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A Test of the Optimal Defense Theory: Cyanogenesis in Phaseolus lunatus L., Lauren M. Stady

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Effects of Ethnicity and Gender on Sixth-Grade Students' Environmental Knowledge and Attitudes After Participation in a Year-Long Environmental Education Program, Rachel Stagner

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The Gamer Who Destroyed the World and Other Stories from my Life, Samara Hayley Steele

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DETERMINED: Start to Finish - Year 1 : the Freshman to Sophomore Experience, Kathleen Steppe

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The Speculative Trunk, Dustin Stevenson

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What's On Your Mind? : A Generational Comparison of Language Use on Online Social Networking Platforms, Samantha Stidham

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Explaining Ballot Initiative Contest Outcomes in California, Oregon, and Washington, Hans Daniel Stroo

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The Effectiveness of Forest Collaborative Groups at Reducing the Likelihood of Project Appeals and Objections in Eastern Oregon, Brent M. Summers

The Dangers of the Spanish Lady: War, Medicine, and Leadership as Contributing Factors to the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919, Holly Swanson

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Prison-Based Animal Programs (PAPs) and Mental Health Outcome Measures, Kaitlyn Swyers

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Green Index: Integration of Environmental Performance, Green Innovativeness and Financial Performance, Ilknur Mary Joy Nirmala Tekin

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How to Avoid Huge Ships and An Index of the Matters, Colin Brooke Thacher

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The Stories We Tell: A Qualitative Inquiry to Multiracial Family Storytelling, Mariko O. Thomas

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The Role of Prototype Learning in Hierarchical Models of Vision, Michael David Thomure

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Team Journal Captivator, Andrew Thorsvik, Srujana Penmetsa, and Sharon Weaver

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Team Journal Captivator, Andrew Thorsvik, Srujana Penmetsa, Sharon Weaver, and Joe Smith