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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Immigrant Students and the College Classroom Climate in Higher Education, Becky Appley Boesch
Residential Solar Photovoltaics: A Financial Decision Support Tool for Northwestern Oregon, Marius Brand, John Easton, Badr Sairafi, Hithem Sughi, and Fahad Jan
Bridging the Gap in the Energy Workforce: Final Report, Rubyna Brenden, Ryan Fedie, Sarah Griffis, and Jared Perez
The Use and Interpretation of the Batería III With U.S. Bilinguals, Julie Esparza Brown
"Do I Really Belong Here?" The Effects of Difference in Paths through Higher Education on Graduate Student Perception on Legitimacy, Tina Dawn Lillian Burdsall
Design and Synthesis of Antimalarial Drugs Based on a Chloroquine Scaffold, Steven James Burgess
Buried : Unearthing the Secrets of Oregon Truffles, Lucy Burningham
The Institutionalization of Diversity and Gender Equity Norms and Values in Higher Education Settings, Rowanna Lynn Carpenter
A Novel Approach to the Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires, Joo Chick Chan
Team Report 2: Team Self Diagnosis, Leong Chan, Meghana Rao, Tiffani Torgeson, and Nikita Vagesh
Team Self Diagnosis, Leong Chan, Meghana Rao, Tiffani Torgeson, and Nikita Vagesh
Implementatiuon of Company-Wide Project Portfolio Management System, Arun Chenchugopal, Hai Huynh, and Stevan Jovonovic
Using P3M3 to framework the Project Management at A.P.E.S: Advanced Programming and E-Commerce Solutions, Arun Chenchugopal, Munif Al Munif, Wesam Sarhan, and Praveen Grandhi
Implementation of Companywide Project Management System: Beyond Brain, An Artificial Intelligence Company, Arun Chenchugopal, Jingyang Zhang, Khalid Maghalani, Munif Almunif, Neb Tadesse, Saranya Sethu Pragasam, and Tianxia Shu
Giving Process its Due : can Collaboration Help Environmental Markets Succeed?, John Robert Cochran
Staying Within the Margins: The Educational Stories of First-Generation, Low-Income College Students, Diane Lyn Cole
Vertical CCD Clock Driver Test Time Optimization, Rafeal Colon, Trevor Combs, Willi Schweinfort, and Songphon Munkongsujarit
Organizational Complexity in American Local Governance: Deploying an Organizational Perspective in Concept and Analytic Framework Development, Charles David Crumpton
ROI: Applying Non-Economic Factors to Replacement Analysis, Adriana Cutar, Blake Evanhus, Wajeeh Hallaj, Nausheen Khan, Paul Liner, Meghana Rao, and Rahul Valsan
Valuing Energy Efficiency Projects using Cost Benefit Analysis, Agu-Ibe Daniel, Ardahan Suha, Fedie Ryan, Pathak Ujjal, and Sharma P. Sharma
Zoonotic Disease Emergence : a Study of Host-Pathogen-Ecosystem Dynamics, Laurie Jeanne Dizney
The Corps of Engineers Lessons Learned Archive System: its Significance and the Need for Improvement, John Easton
Benchmarking Community Investments in Green Building and Green Buying Programs in Five U.S. Cities, Shanna Nicole Eller
Growing Trends in Team Dynamics: An Examination of Virtual Teams, Blake Evenhus, Hithem Sughi, Jorge Torres, and Robert Stankovic
The Role of Mitochondria ATP-sensitive Potassium Channel in Cardioprotection, Ksenia Andrukhiv Everton