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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Increasing Collaboration to Improve Student Outcomes: Improvement Science, Cassandra Diane Thonstad
Implicit Learning in Preschool Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder, Abigail E. Tolomei
LGBTQ+ Social Services and Needs in Portland Oregon, Jay M. Tomlinson
The Power of the Collective: a Multi Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Nuclear Radiation Localization, Benjamin Totten and Christof Teuscher
Mutant Viruses from Hell: Comparing the Capsid Structure of VP1 Mutants to the Wild-Type, Jenni Tran, Thejanee Liyanaarachchi, Ignacio de la Higuera, Jono Abshier, and Ken Stedman
Beyond Rudolph: The Cultural Impacts of Reindeer Herding on the Sami, Ava A. Trueworthy
Methodologies for Quantum Circuit and Algorithm Design at Low and High Levels, Edison Tsai
Raleigh Hills Medical Center, Raleigh Hills, Oregon, Andrew Tucker, Anthony Bertenelli, Dan Noyes, Karisa Caracol, and Matthew Koenigs
Examining Emergency Citizen Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergent Groups Addressing Food Insecurity in Portland, Oregon, Aliza Ruth Tuttle
Most Recent Rupture on the Boulder Creek Fault Triggered Bedrock Landsliding in the Nooksack Watershed, Whatcom County, Washington, Abigail Catherine Underwood
Interpreter Access for the Deaf Community Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Isabella C. Updyke-Welch
East Portland Resilient Island Vision Plan, Blair Vallie, Mary Chase, Mirna Ali, Journie Gering, Rica Perez, and Allan Wilson
The Cultural Dilemma of the American Education System: An Observation of How it Lives in Montessori, Amaya Varma
Film History Digests, Nathan A. Varner
Qur’an and Constitutions: Sharia in Modern Muslim Democracies, Adrian N. Vasquez
Robust Design Methodologies Under Performance Variations for More Than Moore Technologies: CNFETs & 3DICs, Satya Keerthi Vendra
Analysis of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon, Mariah D. Vertulfo
Building a Turbulent Jet: Measuring/Modeling Lagrangian Dispersion, Particle Trajectory Dynamics and Intermittency, Bianca Fontanin Viggiano
Lovesick: An Original Comic Book, Sims C. Vincent
A Look at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis: Investigation of Potential Causes and Effects, Verity Saige Vogel
Thermococcales Transcription Initiation Response to Stress Conditions, Suzie L. Wallace
Houseplants as Mental Health Supports for Dorm Occupants During the Lockdown Period at Portland State University, Brittani Wallsten
The Plant Water Management Experiments, Marc Benjamin Wasserman
Examination of an Individual-level Stigma Reduction Tactic in Front-line Service Encounters, Christopher J. Waterbury, Nicholas A. Smith PhD., Larry Martinez PhD., and Shi (Tracy) Xu PhD.