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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Can Cross-Race Mentoring Help Minority Students and Break Down Prejudice? Mentoring Experiences in Higher Education, Jennifer Brooke Rainer
Solar Data Analysis, Mike C. T. Ray
Track I Diplomacy and Civil Society in Cyprus: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding During Negotiations, Elicia Keren Reed
Red Flag Warning, Jill McKenna Reed
Beyond the Program Year: Graduates Students’ Understanding of How McNair Scholars Program Participation Impacts Their Experiences in Graduate School, Cristina Restad
An Inquiry into the Division of Labor, Raul Reyes
Agricultural Transitions in Northwestern Argentina, Kimberly Reynolds
Designing A Low Cost Prosthetic Arm Device, Samira Rezaei, Frank Fields, and Tamara J. DePue
Corinth as a Catalyst Before and During the Peloponnesian War, Kevin Rhine
Ecomorphology and Mating Behavior of Two Species of Night-stalking Tiger Beetles, Omus audouini and O. dejeanii, Robert Kent Richardson
Arsenic in the Soils of Northwest Oregon, Tracy Ryan Ricker
Elvis Plays Texas, John Michael Ritchey
Mixed-Race Studies; Misstep or the next step for Ethnic Studies in a blending nation?, Jennifer E. Robe
Learning & Practice Sessions: Contributing to a Strong Academic Foundation for Undergraduate CSD Students, Erin E. Robling, Susan Ginley, and Rik Lemoncello
Soil Development and Vegetation Response to Removal of a Small Dam, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, Stephanie Kay Rohdy
Bicycle Traffic Count Factoring: An Examination of National, State and Locally Derived Daily Extrapolation Factors, Josh Frank Roll
The Effect of Teacher-Identified Classroom Management, Monica Rose Root
Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol Precursors Using Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography with Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (GC×GC/TOFMS), Melissa Jordan Roskamp
Thousands or Millions: Stories, J. Peter Roth
Ecology of White-Cheeked Crested Gibbons in Laos, Julia Cleverly Ruppell
Forming a New Art in the Pacific Northwest: Studio Glass in the Puget Sound Region, 1970-2003, Marianne Ryder
Understanding the Hidden Curriculum: Connecting Teachers to Themselves, Their Students, and the Earth, Michelle Sager
Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves, Loucynda Elayne Sandeen
Public Opinion and the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, Peggy Jo Ann Sandeen