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The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Chomsky and Student Opposition to the Vietnam War, Matthew S. Krane
Team Process Report, Arvind Kumar, Justin Thompson, Thanaporn Ngarmnil, Mamatha Murthy, and Timothy Calderwood
Nanostructured Extremely Thin Absorber (ETA) Hybrid Solar Cell Fabrication, Optimization, and Characterization, Darcy Erin Lambert
African Regime Types and International Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations: A Comparative Study of the Relationships of Friends and Enemies., Krista Noel Lane
Revolution, Regeneration and Visions of the "East" in the Russian Imagination, 1890-1932, Meg Langford
Reinhold Niebuhr and His Dialectic Approach to Twentieth-Century Crises, Melissa Cornelius Lang
Development of a Hybrid Atomic Force and Scanning Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect Microscope for Investigation of Magnetic Domains, Andrew James Lawrence
Implications of Hydrologic Data Assimilation in Improving Suspended Sediment Load Estimation in Lake Tahoe, California, Marc Leisenring
A Functional Approach to Memory-Safe Operating Systems, Rebekah Leslie
Ice and Other Stories, Constance D. Levesque
Gendering the Body: Exploring the Construction of the Sexually Dimorphic Body, Sarah Kaye Lewis
Assessment of an Optimal Bus Stop Spacing Model Using High Resolution Archived Stop-Level Data, Huan Li
Technology Forecasting of Google Data Centers, Chih-Hsun Lin, Tin Nguyen, and Gaurav Sonny Katoch
Prediction of Soil Layer R-Value Dependence on Moisture Content, Ziyang Liu
Student Approaches to Combinatorial Enumeration: The Role of Set-Oriented Thinking, Elise Nicole Lockwood
Roman (Un)Exceptionalism: Dispelling Popular Notions of Roman Belligerence, Jordan Long
The Responsibilities and Limitations of Holocaust Storytelling: Understanding the Structure and Usage of the Master Narrative in Holocaust Film, Fianna Raven MacGregor
Proposal and Analysis of Demagnetization Methods of High Voltage Power System Transformers and Design of an Instrument to Automate the Demagnetization Process, Nathanael Jared Makowski
Do "Clickers" Improve Student Engagement and Learning in Secondary Schools?, Andrew James Mankowski
The Role of Salmon in Middle Snake River Human Economy: The Hetrick Site in Regional Contexts, Cassandra R. Manning
Impacts of Rhizosphere CO₂ on Root Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Activity, Root Respiration Rate and Rhizodeposition in Populus spp., Dawn Marie Matarese
Model-Based Information Extraction From Synthetic Aperture Radar Signals, Shari Matzner
Identifying Modifiable Factors associated with Depression across the Lifespan in Stroke Survivor-Spouse Dyads, Michael Joseph McCarthy