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The Good Knight, Elektra Koozer
Effects of Changing Fire Regimes on Black Huckleberry Habitat Suitability, Emily R. LaBarge
Holding Pattern: The Making of an Ep, on Intuition, and Form Becoming the Content, Oscar Larson Phillips
Pitching fWAR vs bWAR as Predictors of Team Success in the MLB Regular Season, Jason Lee
A Twilight World of Unspeakable Horror: Lesbian Camp and The Vampire Lovers (1970), Mirielle LeMay
Uniform Stability of Katyusha in Strongly-Convex Settings, Don Li
What is the value of a state? Accounting for the ecosystem service and natural capital values of Oregon, Kathryn T. Liebrecht, Sahan Dissanayake, and Luis Ruedas
Understanding Moral Injury in Emergency Department Clinicians: Predictors, Outcomes, and Evidence Gaps, Rose Doering Lightspeed
Meeting the needs: Examining the response to houselessness in Portland, OR, Miguel A. Lopez Paz
Neuroplasticity After TBI: Meta-Analysis Reveals Structural and Cognitive Recovery Beyond Six Months Is Enhanced by Targeted Learning, Amanda C. Lunsford
Irish Identity: Symbols of Nationalism in W.B. Yeats's Cathleen Plays, Emma Mady
Why Choose Green Burial: Raising Awareness About an Under-Utilized Method of Body Disposition, Gretchen Mahlberg
Citizenship Denied, Accountability Deferred: A Neorealist Analysis of International Law and the Rohingya Crisis, Farah Mahmoud
“Address It or Suppress It”: What We Can Learn About RPF From Celebrity Responses, Z Maloney-Dunn
A Battle of Will and Wisdom: Polar Opposites in the Polar Extremes of the Viking World, Lily C. Manne
Aid as Leverage: How Humanitarian Assistance Shapes the Health Power Dynamics in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Emmanuella K. Mbuyu
From Mogadishu to Minneapolis: Transnational Political and Social Ties in the Somali Diaspora, Kate E. McFarland
The Gut Microbiome, the Gut-Brain Axis, and College Student Well-Being, Idi McKay
Looking Upwards and Out: Comparing Buddhist and Humanist Frameworks for Enlightenment, Mason J. McKinney-Best
The Dolor: How a Generation of Women Quietly Lost their Children, Alexis McLean
Exploitation in Conscientious Carnivorism, Killian McMahon
Radical Social Work in the United States: An Integrative Literature Review, Anastasia Miller
Beyond the Best Prompt: A Coverage View of Multilingual Reasoning, Harshiv Mistry