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Theses from 2021
Witches as Queer(ed) Comrades: How Patriarchy, Sexism and Religious Fanaticism Fueled the Early Modern European Witch Hunts, Iris S. De Lis
Pandemic Music: Developing Music Compositions for Performance During Covid-19, Maia R. Denzler
Mechanisms of Substrate Recognition by the Cul3-based E3 Ligase, Katia Graziella de Oliveira Rebola
Assessing Water Quality Improvement and Treatment Effectiveness at a 6-Ha Constructed Wetland in Clackamas County, OR, Christopher L. Desiderati
Charlemagne: Nuancing the Conventional Narrative, Rebecca Devereaux
The Effective Opening: Nonviolent Movements and How They Can Help to Enforce International Law Pertaining to Human Rights, Emmalyn A. Dewing
Trauma and Child Development: The Effects That Ice Detention Centers May Have On Our Children, Natalie A. DeWitt
Examining the Link Between Acculturation and Reproductive Autonomy Among Oregon Latinas: Work in progress, Sara M. Diaz-Anaya
Building a Leader's Identity on Social Media, Morningstar Dickson
COVID-19 Impact Survey for Filipinos in Oregon, Maria Theresa D. Dizon and Anthony Ponticello
The Effect of Diazepam on Early Neural Stem Cells Proliferative Activity and Hippocampal-Dependent Memory after Traumatic Brain Injury, Van Khanh Doan
Allotrioemeis: Or, a Preposterous Preponderance of Pins Produced, Strangely Doesburg
Jonestown: A Means of Control and Rebellion through Basketball, Jack Donahue
Our Peer the Pigeon: Impacts of the COVID-19 "Anthropause" on PSU Campus Urban Foragers, Audrey Douglass
A Comparison of Particulate Matter Deposition onto Green Roof Species and White Roof in Portland, Oregon, Amelia Drake
emmenagogue: poems of the body, Jessamyn Duckwall
Corporate Sociopolitical Activism and Nonprofit Identity Orientation on an Individual's Likelihood to Support, Tara Duenas
Session 2: Panel 3: Presenter 2 (Paper) -- The Anti-Chinese Movement and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Melanie Du
Gender differences in response to a paid parental leave policy: A sequence analysis of administrative time-keeping records, Lisset M. Dumet Poma, Julia M. Goodman, David A. Hurtado, Anna Steeves-Reece, and Dawn M. Richardson
Interventions for Executive Function in Children with Unstable Housing: Bridging the Gap, Diane Duncan and Jared Cutter
A Collaborative Crusade: Economic Incentives for Religious Tolerance in Sicily, 1061–1189, Francesca M. Duncan
Evaluating Active Faults and Earthquakes in the Strawberry Mountains, Oregon, Andrew J. Dunning
'They’re Building A Wall': The Separation Barrier in Palestine/Israel, Tyler Durbin