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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Adaptive Sampling for Seabed Identification from Ambient Acoustic Noise, Matthew Sullivan
Neuroscience-based Harm Reduction Education for College Students in Portland, OR, Catriona Swallow
Removal as a Control Method for Trachemys scripta elegans and the Response of Chrysemys picta bellii, Jacob Swanson
Investigating Removal as a Control Method for Trachemys scripta elegans and the Response of Chrysemys picta bellii, Jacob Daniel Swanson
Predation of Appendicularians on Prochlorococcus, Carey Sweeney
Variability of Grazing by Appendicularians on Prochlorococcus, Carey Sweeney
Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Steens and Monument Dike Swarm: Implications and Relationships to Magmatic Storage and to Lava Flows of the Picture Gorge and Steens Basalt, Rachel Anne Sweeten
A Marxist Analysis of Women's Labor in the Soviet Union, Shania Sweet
Education and Tolerance of Homosexuality in Diverse Islamic Contexts, Camila Swift
Digital Comics Subscription Service Usage and Its Impact on Printed Comic Buying Habits: The Digital Comics Subscription Loop, Isaac Swindle
Portraits of Agency and Power: Exploring Andean Women in Guamán Poma's Chronicle, Ruby Sygar
Culture or Power: The Eruption of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, Danielle Tagakou Talla
Understanding Variation in Provider Referral Rates to Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays, Gabriella Tangkilisan, Zoe Kilmer, Michelle Owens, Benjamin Sanders, and Katharine Zuckerman
Locating Vitamin D Receptors (VDRs) in Annual Killifish, Austrofundulus Limnaeus, Rosalia N. Tanori, Amie L. Romney, and Jason E. Podrabsky
Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Change, and Related Impacts Over the Western United States, Graham Patrick Taylor
Some Hypergeometric Identities and Related Leonard Pairs, Taiyo Summers Terada
2024 Summer Proceedings Teuscher Lab, Teuscher Group, Christof Teuscher, Chelsea Ogbede, Lauren Sanday, Sofia Vargas, and Artem Arefev
Human or Machine: The Effects of Centering Productivity on User Psyche Through Digital Management/Tracking Tools, Pema Thangzur
Condiciones laborales de la floricultura en Colombia, Alexander Thibado
Far-Right Monologues and Extreme Identity, Benjamin Alexander Thigpen
Evaluating Equitable Successes In Literary Spaces A Portland Book Festival (PBF) Case Study, Tia-Theo Thompson
Evaluating Equitable Success in Literary Spaces: A Portland Book Festival Case Study, Tia-Theo I. Thompson
“You Could Have Did Us Better Than This”: Reparative Housing Policies and the Struggle to Right Harms to Black Communities, Amie Thurber, Lisa K. Bates, Susan Halverson, and Keisha Muia