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Theses from 2025
The Potential for Improv as a Therapeutic Tool in the Context of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Suggestions for DBT Clinicians, Jocelyn Borden
Begin Again: blooming, Samantha Hope Boulgarides
Knowing Remembers Joe Christmas: An Exploration of Trauma in William Faulkner's Light in August, Kendall Boyd
Risk Factors for Substance Use Among Serious and Violent Offenders Undergoing Reentry, Elizabeth Bozarth
The Discovery, Communication, and Implementation of New Geologic Findings: Examining the Cascadia Earthquake, Saylor Brainard
Trees, Schools, & Stakeholders: Building Partnerships for Schoolyard Greening With Portland Urban Forestry Learning Landscapes, Claire Brase
Green Weave: A Textile Guide to the Future of Fashion, Simon Braunschweig
Friends and Family: How to Prepare a Themed Recital, Henry Broughton
Framing Economic Inequality on TikTok: A Qualitative Analysis of Gen Z's Engagement Across Three Issues, Braydan Brown
Is Sharing Always Caring: Critical Discourse Analysis on the Parasociality of Family Influencing Content on TikTok, Riley Brown
Near Real-Time Prediction of Ground PM2.5 Concentrations Across Oregon Using GEOS-CF and Machine Learning Models, Long T. Bui
Mental Health in Prisons: Examining Variations in Disorders Across Custody Levels, Ariel Bysiek
How to Kill a Human: Creating an Immersive Learning Game, Théo Caldwell and Nathan Bonnell
Messy Kitchens, Clean Hands, Emily Camp
From Prohibition to Prescription: Exploring Injustice, Bias, and Science-Based Solutions, Alexander Campos
Defining Antisemitism or Activism?: An Analysis of Congressional Debate Over the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, John Carpenter
Their Will is Wealth: American Billionaires, Illiberal Capital, and their Immunity to Federal Law, Conor Kawika Carroll
The Competitive Advantage of Storytelling, Jennifer V. Carroll
Building Adaptive Capacity Through Community Visioning, Silas Carr, Isaiah Jackman, Brandon Huezo, and Lara Opeifa
A Capstone Review: Bi-Lateral Growth of Outdoor and Business Skills, Ben Casteel
Exploring Underrepresented STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development: The Role of Social Partners, Sandy Cerda-Lezama
Perspectives of Cannabis Farmers on Intersection of Water Access and Cannabis Frontier Constraints in Southern Oregon, Tapiwa Malvin Chabikwa
Association between Arsenic and other heavy metal exposures through drinking water and food with lung function and respiratory symptoms: A cross-sectional study, Sofia I. Chapela Lara and Seth O'Neal MD, MPH for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru