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Employer voices: Insights on Bolstering Career Development for Graduate Students, Alexandria J. Ashraf MPH, Josh Hodsden MBA, Justin Howe BA, Danielle Ross BA, Dalton Wesemann BA, and Lisa K. Marriott PhD
Why People Pee in Public: Is a Lack of Public Restrooms Keeping Portland Too Weird?, Cece Austin
The Women of the Oregon State Insane Asylum: 1900-1910, Rebekah Catherine Averette
Flammability of Dominant Tree Species Portends Severe Wildfire Risk in the Portland-Vancouver Metro Area, Lindsey Babcock, Eliza Baker, Anaïs Baker, Kat Benjamin, Sean Brown, Emma Campbell, Gus Compton, Ella Crotty, Alec DeContreras, Kiana Fields, Eva Groeke, Rosan Groot, Meredith Hastings, Rosalie Imbimbo, Jolie Jaffe, Hannah Kaba, Bucky Kuehn, Harper Lethin, Lyda Longfritz, Diya Mandyam, Naia Marten, Nat Michaels, Julian Sarin, Anna Spollen, Joseph Tally, Mariana Tijerina, Alex Vandendries, Catherine Wheaton, and Aaron R. Ramirez
Designing and Building a Concrete Climbing Robot for Non-Destructive Testing of Infrastructure, Weston Baker
Identity in Question: Middle Eastern Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, Julian F. Balsley
Speech & Language Services: Examining the Experiences of Deaf / Hard of Hearing People, Milayna N. Barker
"We're Going to Tear up the Caldera So We Can Have an Electric Car": Competing Perceptions and Spatial Dimensions of Open-Pit Lithium Mining in the McDermitt Caldera, Oregon, Elizabeth Bartholomew
Reed Research Reactor Neutron Beam Characterization and Analysis, Vee Bartko and Jerry Newhouse
Work and Psychological Recovery Experiences of Asian American and Pacific Island Workers in Higher Education, Christine M. Beceril
Modeling Of Carbon Dioxide In Portland, Christopher R. Behrens
Factors Impeding Mental Health Help-Seeking: A Literature Review, Justin Benner
A Survey of North American Electric Bicycle Owners, Cameron Steven Bennett
It's Going to be Okay: Experiences and Perceptions of People Who Seek Reassurance at Work, Liana Bernard
Cleaning the Dirty Pool: Testing Interaction Effects Using Different Panel Model Specifications, Rhiannon Berry
Self-Balancing Robot Leg, Ben Bolen
Understanding Quadrature Modulation by Designing a 7MHz IQ Test Bench to Encode the Polybius Square, William Lee Bradley
The Role of Christianity in Shaping Agrarian Policies and Environmental Interactions: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and the Netherlands, Grace N. Brimble
Second International Marxism and the Finnish Revolution, Luke Brodersen
It's Disco, Baby: Queer Possibilities and Conservative Outrage, Lottie Bromham
An Ethnography of Frostbite Among Unsheltered People in Portland: Safety, Governance, and the Manufacture of Vulnerability, Muireall Brown
2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith