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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Landslide Mapping, Characterization, and Hazard Assessment with 3D Slope Stability Modeling in White Bluffs, Washington State, Anna Tsitsivas
Community Responses to US Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs, Bethani Turley
Differentiating Dynamic System Outcomes in CAM Photosynthesis Through Sonification, Duncan Turley
Extended Producer Responsibility: Successes, Failures, and the Future of Oregon Recycling, Zoe Vandal
Understanding Waveguides in Resonance, Pieter Johannes Daniel Vandenberge
Flattening Morrison's Beloved: The Limits of Psychoanalysis in Literary Criticism, A Literature Review, Isaac VanHook
Preservation of Biomass in Underground Capsules Using an Open-Source Wireless Water Activity Sensor System: Capstone Review, Joshua Varughese
Investigating Student Expectations, Buy-In, and Engagement in Lower Division Undergraduate Chemistry Labs, Elizabeth Blanche Vaughan
Interpersonal Experiential Learning and Cancer Research Training Designed to Enhance the Motivation of Participating Interns Utilizing Self-Determination Theory: A Longitudinal Study with Photovoice Methodology, Alex Vazquez-Cortes, Dierdre McKay, Connie Tran, Bridget Bugla, Tiffany Bui, Kaisa Holt, Anthony Phan, Clare Hansen, Amy Lin, Amanda Braley, and Lisa Marriott PhD
Immigrant Identity Formation, A Transnational Approach: Italian Americans in New York City, 1880-1930, Amelia J. Vena
The Experience of Homelessness and its Effects on Gut Eubiosis, Kamerin Villagomez
Analyzing Intensifying Storm Events Correlation to Landslide Frequency in Portland’s West Hills, Aurora Villa Juan
Itagaki Paru's Animalized Japan, Adoria Shanelle Walker
Mindspace: A Multi-Media Art Exhibition on C-PTSD Awareness, Emma Wallace
Designing for Deployable, Secure, and Generic Machine Learning Systems, Li-Yun Wang
Automated Verification of Compiler Transformations, Yanzhao Wang
A Mechanistic Study of Silicon Nanocrystal Formation via Solid State Synthesis, Katherine McCarthy Weinfurter
Caregiver Perceptions of Antipsychotic Drug Use in Dementia Populations: Investigating How Antipsychotic Medications Are Overused, Alexis Wellman
Norse Inspired Tales: Four Changes of Fate, Pete Wille
The Freedom and Danger of Crinoline, Kaiya Williams
Securing the Internet of Things at Scale, Steven L. Willoughby
Isolation of Gametophytic Selection and Selective Embryo Abortion in Mimulus guttatus, Desmond C. Willson
Selection During Reproduction in Mimulus guttatus, Desmond C. Willson, Karla de Lima Berg, and Mitch Cruzan
My Father's Story: An Ethnography About Language Loss, Ariel Wilsey-Gopp