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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The New Shiny Penny? Regenerative Agriculture Beliefs and Practices Among Portland's Urban Agriculturalists, Melia Ann Chase
Planning and Real-Time Resource Allocation in Freight Logistics Systems Utilizing Emerging Transportation Technologies, Darshan Rajesh Chauhan
Health Literacy and People Diagnosed with Mental Illness, Beckie Child
Monetizing Attention and Branding Strategy: Assessing the Effects of Personal Branding on Amateur Athletic Compensation, Abby Christiansen
High School Persisters and Alternative Schools, Hyuny Clark-Shim
Using WGCNA to Examine RNASeq Expression Data in the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus Limnaeus, Patrick Clouser and Jason Podrabsky
Shaping the Witch: A Visual Art Thesis, Amanda Cobb
Legalizing Mobile Dwellings : A Guide for Expanding a Unique Affordable Housing Option in your City, Grace Coffey, Scott Goodman, Matthew Hall, Sam Huck, and Andrew Oliver
Must Be Present to Win: Principals' Perspectives on Exclusionary Discipline, William Jeremy Cohen
The Sack of Rome, Sean M. Coloma
Gender, Fantasy, and Misogyny in The Age of Innocence: A Character Study of Newland Archer, Sonia Comstock
Batterer Intervention Program Evaluation: A Portland, Oregon Program Case Study, Julie M. Conner
Temperature and Predator Effects on Green Crabs (Carcinus maenas) and Their Distribution in South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Elissa Connolly-Randazzo
Alternative Energy Source Funding for the Pacific Northwest, Chip Corbett, Cuong Nguyen, Dahm Mongkol Hongchai, Prajakta Thorat, Pavithra Prasad, and Sarah von Schimmelmann
Making Use of Prosodic Resources in a New Language: Self-Repetition in Wh-Questions in Talk-in-Interaction, Phoebe Cordova
Research Proposal for An Assessment of the Potential for the Arbuscular Fungi “Rhizophagus irregularis” to Aid in Corn Uptake and Availability of Iron, Caitlin Costello
Legislative Procedures and Perceptions of Legitimacy, Megan Elizabeth Cox
The Renaissance Art Market: Economic Relationships between Italian Sculptors and Wealthy Patrons for Marketability, Sophia Crawford
The Iroquois Indians in Ohio, 1600–1763, Woody Crow
Schism and Suppression: Early Threats to the Esperanto Language, and Resulting Impacts on International Acceptance, Anabel E. Cull
Poetry to Prose: The Influence of Herodotus on Written History, Frances B. Currie
The Process of Publishing a Crow Book, Claire L. Curry
The Failure of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster, Sonja Cutts
Transforming Learning Communities, Transforming Ourselves: A Qualitative Investigation of Identity Processes in a Participatory Action Research-themed Undergraduate Course, Julia Sara Dancis
Operation Mincemeat: The Impact and Influence of WWII’s Most Daring Intelligence Operation, Maya N. DaSilva