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Theses from 2022
Ode-cean: California, Danny-Olivia F. Hanson
Neuroscience-Informed Self-Advocacy for Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders, Britta Harbury
The Case for Mandatory Reporting as an Ethical Dilemma for Social Workers, Sam Harrell and Stéphanie Wahab
"We've Created Cheap Energy off the Backs of Salmon": Dam Removal Politics and Alliances in the Lower Snake River Basin, Krista Harrington
Focusing the Lens: Recognizing U.S. Prisons as Fortresses of Environmental Injustice, Elijah R. Hart
Dual Colonization of Okinawa: Gendered and Militarized Violence, Katie Y. Hashimoto
Unpaired Style Transfer Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Scanned Document Generation, David Jonathan Hawbaker
Natives and Nativars: Understanding Pollinator Preference for Native Plants and Their Cultivated Counterparts in the Pacific Northwest, Jen Hayes and Gail Langellotto
the Weak, the Wicked, the Divine: A Collection of Poems, Grace Hedin
Intersectionality Pertaining to the Disproportionate Rates of Black Women in Prisons and Jails, Mackenzie Heller
Examining the Role of Social Support and Neighborhood Deprivation in the Relationship Between Multiple ACEs and Health Risk Behaviors, Marin L. Henderson-Posther
The Comb, Rosanna Nafziger Henderson
Working Paper No. 67, Insights into Project Cybersyn, Leah Herrera
An Examination of Educator Perspectives on Career and College Pathways for Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color with Disabilities, Rachel Anne Herrick
The Intersectionality of Stuttering and Aging, Mary Elizabeth Herring
Reduce, Reuse and Deny: How Sustainability is Judged by Consumers, Madison E. Hill
Japanese Gender Trouble in Revolutionary France: Ikeda Riyoko's Shōjo Manga The Rose of Versailles, Saki Hirozane
A Walk in the Park: A Spatial Analysis of Crime and Portland Parks, Cheyenne Pamela Hodgen
Bad Blood: Hemophilia and It’s Detriment to the Russian Imperial Family, Tessia A. Hoffman
Characterizing the Functional Role of Transcription Factor E in Archaeal Transcription, Madolyn Hofstetter and Michael Bartlett
Trouble Within the Fold: The Communal Response to Madness in Medieval Europe, Alice P. Holland
The Effect of Media and Filtration in Inducing the Oxidative Stress Response in Escherichia coli, Suzanne Hollingsworth
Toward Analyzing the Diversity of Extractive Summaries, Aaron David Hudson
Randomized, Clinical Trials on the Effects of Robotic-Assisted Gait Training for Stroke Subjects: A Scoping Review, Daniel K. Hufnagel