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Rapid-Prototyping Nanofabrication: LCD-Based Projection Lithography and Physical Vapor Deposition, Sabeel Saleem Mohammmed
Not Everyone Gets a Tree: Housing Values, Street Trees, and Equity in Portland, Matthew S. Moller
"What About Me?": Explaining Voting Patterns Among Young Men in the 2024 Election, Camille Moore
Chondrites from Northwestern Nevada: The Jungo Dense Collection Area, Nico Morrelli
An Examination of Two Atypical Carbonaceous Chondrites, Nico Morrelli and Melinda Hutson
Estuary, Aly Morris
Madwoman Makings: The Modern Girl as an Object of Fear and Fascination in Unno Jūza’s "Mrs. Hirumi's Refrigeration Bag", Eliza Joy Mortimer
Rarely Asked: The Systemic Failure to Support the Mental Health of Caregivers of Medically Complex Children, Morgan Motsinger
Elucidating the function of YedK in response to DNA damage, Hank L. Munro
Controls on Dissolved Organic Carbon Bioavailability Across an Urban Stream Network: Disturbance, Metabolism, and Seasonality, Mary J. Munt and Jennifer L. Morse
The Cleansing Effect of Technological Investment: An Empirical Analysis of Episodic Labor Market Polarization (2000–2010), Adam J. Murphy
Feather River: Returning to Hope, Allen Myers
Demonizing Sexuality: Dangerous Women in Folklore, Lily E. Nelson
Homelessness and Business: Perception, Affect and Opportunity, Asatur Nor-Ashkarian
JALZAP: An Agile Hybrid for AI-Accelerated Software Development, Pouya Nouri
A 2030 Energy Transition Pathway for Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Kasiet Nurlanbekova
More Than "Programs for Women": Centering Incarcerated Women's Voices in the Evaluation of Prison Programming, Winter Ohara-Frantz
Characteristics of Social Capital in Informal Housing Settlements, Lena C. Parsons
Navigating Homelessness and Housing Accessibility: An Ethnography of Guests at Operation Nightwatch, Chase Kawika Patton
Soil-Groundwater Controls on the Hydrological Fate of Recycled-Water in a Restored Wetland, Punyotoya Paul, Jennifer L. Morse, and John Richard Goetz III
Reinvesting in a Lived Experience Workforce: An Exploration of Why Peer Support Specialists Leave the Field, Morgan Rae Pelot
Updating ODOT’s Intersection Control Evaluation Tool, Elias Peters
Geographic and Systemic Disparities in Maternal Health: A Systems Analysis of Prenatal Care Access Across Rural Oregon, Cecelia A. Petrik