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Events from 2025
Assessing Behavioral Health Services in Oregon's Rural Health Clinics, Sanya M. Surya
The Impact of COVID-19 on the United States Higher Education System, Phoenix Daniel Van Wormer
From Prison Cells to Parliament: How the H-Block Hunger Strikes Transformed Sinn Féin to Enable Peace in Northern Ireland, Madeleine E. Wallenberg
Comparing Acuity of Patient Care at Student Run Free Medical Clinic Locations, Hana Warmflash, Olivia Krol, and Alex Foster
Working Paper No. 89, Towards a Veblenian View of the Digital Realm, Tanner Weber
Investigating Key Structures in Protective Scenes for LLMs, Eben M. Weisman
Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss, Ariel Caroline Wilsey-Gopp
Activity Levels Among Older Adults in a Life Plan Community, Emily D. Winters
Working Paper No. 94, Franklin Roosevelt, His New Deal Policies, and The Ending of Laissez-faire, Amanda F. Worman
Northern Red-Legged Frog Use of a New Under-Road Crossing and Adjacent Upland Habitat, Alyson W. Yates and Catherine de Rivera
Investigating Water Temperature Dynamics and Hydrologic Interactions in an Urban Stream-Lake System near Portland OR, Matthew C. Yates and Jennifer L. Morse
Investigating Environmental Controls on Temperature Dynamics in an Urban Stream, Matthew Cullen Yates
Primary Health Care: Strengthening Health Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries, Erin Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Minimal Separating Sets in Surfaces, Christopher Nelson Aagaard
Office to Residential Conversions: A Housing Crisis Response, Lloyd District Portland Or., Mackenzie Aamodt, Carson Fehner, Samantha Gallagher, Kara Hamilton, Daisy Schonder, and Etosha Terryll
Binary Gendered Language: A Qualitative Study of PSU Students, Dakota Abercrombie
Cultivating Connections: Future Approaches to Tourism ESL Pedagogy, Kelly Abrams
Re-Indigenizing and Collaboratively Tending Urban Greenspaces, Divinity Nnenne Adewale
Competing Supramolecular Forces: Boron Coordination vs π-π Stacking, Sidhaesh A. Agarwal, Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado, Nicholas Lutz, Jesus Daniel Loya, and Eric W. Reinheimer
Quantum Search Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems Using Grover's Search and Quantum Walk Algorithms with Advanced Oracle Design, Abdirahman Sheikh Hassan Alasow
Beyond Craigslist Personal Ads: Contemporary Usage of the Label t4t, Madi Lou Alexander
Crossover of Supervisors' Perceptions of Co-worker Support to Employees' Well-Being, Shalene Joyce Allen
Psilocybin with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), Aspen E. Allred
Development of a Fast-Neutron Source Localization System, Abdulsalam F. Al Mutairi