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 2011
A Feasibility Study of Model-Based Natural Ventilation Control in a Midrise Student Dormitory Building, Steven James Gross
"An I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation": The Effects of Family Type and Patriarchy in the Home on Female Adolescent Delinquency and Mental Health, Stephanie-Kaye Guenther
Real Options Methodology in Sportswear Retail Investment Valuation, Hairong Karen Gui
Motivation in Late Learners of Japanese: Self-Determination Theory, Attitudes and Pronunciation, Shannon Guinn-Collins
Solyndra Project Report, Aifang Guo, J. Curtis Edmondson, and Izad Khormaee
Hydrogeology of the McKinney Butte Area: Sisters, Oregon, Joshua Andrew Hackett
Investigating Future Variation of Extreme Precipitation Events over the Willamette River Basin Using Dynamically Downscaled Climate Scenarios, Andrew Jason Halmstad
Scratched Petroglyphs in the Bennett Hills, Idaho, Karla Lucille Hambelton
Landslide Susceptibility in Tryon State Park, Oregon, Tracy E. Handrich
A Multi-Level Study of the Predictors of Family-Supportive Supervision, Ginger Charmagne Hanson
Family-Supportive Supervisory Behaviors as a Moderator of the Relationship between Job Strain and Workers' Blood Pressure, Christopher Scott Harper
Event Ecology: An Analysis of Discourses Surrounding the Disappearance of the Kah Shakes Cove Herring (Clupea pallasi), Jamie Sue Hebert
Erasing the Space Between Japanese and American: Progressivism, Nationalism, and Japanese American Resettlement in Portland, Oregon, 1945-1948, Robert Alan Hegwood
Selecting Cooking Stove and Fuel Technology Using Pairwise Comparison Method, Karina Hershberg and John Elliot
Baxter Creek SS4000-E, Karina Hershberg, Priti Maheshwari, Aarthi Neethirajan, Dinesh Soysa, and Michael Uffelman
Reinventing the Wheel, Amy Hesse, April Cutter, Spencer Williams, and Reza Farhoodi
The Institutional Development of the American Vice Presidency, James Emory Hite
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Glacier Melt in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Matthew James Hoffman
Analysis and Evaluation of Criteria Impacting HER Adoption With AHP Model, Liliya Hogaboam, Jiali Ju, Duygu Ucar, and Caroline Mudavadi
Tyranny, Marriage, and a New Market, William Holden
Riparian Wetland Response to Livestock Exclusion in the Lower Columbia River Basin, Sarah Ann Holmen
Technological Assessment of Emerging Technologies in Conversion of Municipal Solid Waste to Energy, Lokesh Honnappa, Mamatha Murthy, Claudiu Rusnac, and Chakaphan Pornsatit
Economic Analysis of Biomass Conversion plant for Portland Metro Area, Lokesh Honnappa, Aarthi Neethirajan, Mamatha Murthy, Priti Maheshwari, and Duygu Ucar
Longitudinal Analysis Using English Language Proficiency Assessment for Beaverton School District, Fei Huang
HOLCF '11: A Definitional Domain Theory for Verifying Functional Programs, Brian Charles Huffman