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Submissions from 2024
Wasted Space: Using Parking Lots & Vacant Land to Improve Neighborhood Completeness, Ryan Martyn
Doubly Almost Bipartite Leonard Pairs, Shuichi Masuda
Thermal Regimes of Beaver Impacted Stream Reaches in the Tualatin River Basin, Miles Mayer
Teaching in a Kenyan Refugee Camp: A Critical Ethnography of the Impact of Teacher Preparation and Cultural Experience on Pedagogy, James Adiok Mayik
Priscus at the Court of Atilla: Unveiling Hunnic Dynamics, Jake C. McCauley
The Cambridge Five Spy Ring: The Notorious Bane of the British Government, Jenna G. McComas
The Cascading Effects of Database Design, Liam McCracken
Permission to Play: A District's Initiative to Innovate Kindergarten and Promote Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Cristin McDonough
Spectroscopic End Point Detection With an Electron Beam Evaporator, Ryan McGraw
Modeling Injury Severity of Truck-Involved Crashes Under COVID-19 Regulatory Changes, William McKenzie
We're Here to Stay: Nonviolence and the Disability Rights Movement, Sky McLeod
McNair Scholars Program Summer Symposium (Video Recording) Part One, McNair Scholars Program
McNair Scholars Program Summer Symposium (Video Recording) Part Two, McNair Scholars Program
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Profiles and Abstracts 2024, McNair Scholars Program
Transgender and Non-binary Health in Oregon Under a Single-Payer Health System, Amy (Mick) L. McVeety (they/she)
Nostalgia Marketing: An Integrative Framework, Yasamin Mehdian Rad
Using Herbarium Record to Estimate Flowering Time Shifts Across Bioclimatic Regions, Anna Mele
Analysis of Turbulent Flow in Portland-Metro Urban Environment, Shaho Zana Meman
Efficient and Chemoselective Access to Highly Functionalized Arenes by C-H Deprotonative Generation of Aryne Intermediates, Bryan Edward Metze
Teeth, Chukwudaru Immaculata Michael
The Use of Extreme Risk Protection Orders Intended to Prevent Mass Violence in Oregon: A Descriptive Study, Rosol Mikail, Rebecca Valek, Shauna Rakshe, Rebecca Teichman, Susan DeFrancesco, and Kathleen Carlson
Understanding the Other: Mentor Ethnocultural Empathy and Relationship Quality and Duration in Youth Mentoring, Miriam Miranda-Diaz
The Role of DNA Topoisomerases in the Completion of DNA Replication, Parisa Mokhtari
Birkhoff Summation of Irrational Rotations: A Surprising Result for the Golden Mean, Heather Moore