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Theses from 2026
The U.S. Shopping Mall: Opportunities for Preservation and Transformation through Adaptive Reuse, Sophia Janzen
A Qualitative Study Into the Impact of Sweeps on Homeless-Serving Mutual Aid Groups in Portland, OR, Clover Javurek-Humig
Developing Field and Spaceflight Microscopy, Nikki Johnston
Social Determinants as a Predictor for Heart Disease Mortality: Oregon Regional Study, Jewel Jones
Subversive Shooting: How Annie Oakley Rose to Nationwide Notoriety, Sycan I. Jones
Aid and Assist Cases in Multnomah County: An Exploration of ORS 161.370, Savannah Jurasek
Noggin Bonks and Neurogenesis: Alterations in Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis Following a Rodent Model of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Tuesday Kirby Kahl
Advancing the OreSat ADCS: Design & Implementation of an Open-Source Reaction Wheel System, Chris Kane-Pardy
(Re)Claiming Homeplace: Dance as Embodied Resistance & Healing for Health & Spatial Justice, Preeya G. Kannan
Japanese Learners and Mixed-Speech Styles, Nana Kawada
Contrasting Responses to Predation Risk in Urban and Non-Urban Rodents, Grace Kazmir, Rosa Rudolph, and Tracy Burkhard
Evapotranspiration Estimation Using a Water Balance Model for Urban Green Roof Vegetation in Portland, OR, Tarannum K. Khandoker, Harper Thomson, Arely Corro Sanchez, and Samantha Hartzell
The Influence of Urban Form on the Distribution of Air Pollutants, Takin Khosrownia
"I Still Care About Her": Ambiguous Loss and Social Death in Substance-Affected Relationships, Margaret M. King
Erasing the Artist, Policing the City: Michael Stewart and New York’s War on Graffiti, Vladislav Kirilov
The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Female College Students' Social Emotional Development: Is Flourishing Possible?, Kaylee Kirkwood
Shallow-Marine Crinoid Genera May Have Been More Resilient Across Permian Extinction Events in Terms of Richness Than Deep-Marine Crinoid Genera, Amelia C. Kolstad
The Good Knight, Elektra Koozer
Haapxtàm Ka'ál Yimisapʰíkʰ We Dream for Our Children Indigenous Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education: Survivance, Truth Telling, and Healing on Native Land, Sara Anne Koyano
Controls, Variability, and Prediction of Water Temperature Dynamics in Freshwater Wetlands, Michael Benjamin Krochta
Designing Automata and Systems in Memristive and Quantum Technologies, Manjith Kumar
Effects of Changing Fire Regimes on Black Huckleberry Habitat Suitability, Emily LaBarge
ƒ(Enlightenment): A Complex Adaptive Systems Model of Recursive Causality and Human Meaning-Making, Daniel Lambert