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Events from 2021
Cesar Chavez: The 1965 Grape Boycott and the 400-Mile Pilgrimage, Ashley M. Lambert
Sicut Regale: An Analysis of the Sovereignty and Rule of the Welsh Marcher Lords, Luke Lambert
The Band Chervona: Russian Musical Traditions in the Portland Diaspora, Zoe Landi Fontana
Addressing and Supporting Mental Health Today: Society-Wide and in Hospital Emergency Departments, Kira La Sage
Effects of Apremilast on Binge Drinking and Circadian Gene Expression in High Drinking in the Dark Mice, Courtney Ledford
The Effect of Apremilast on Circadian Rhythm in the Ventral Tegmental Area, Courtney Ledford and Angela Ozburn
Religious Language and the American Presidency, Shinjin Lee
The Evaluation of Performance of Spindle Connector and its Finite Element Analysis, Suhyun Lee
Is More Always Better? A Look at Visitation and Recidivism, Teriin Lee
A Cyber-Anthropological Interrogation of East Asian Parenting Styles and Kinship Systems, Catherine Lefevre and Charles H. Klein
How Indigenous-Language Court Interpreters and Clients Navigate the U.S. Court System Under Strict Court-Interpreting Guidelines, Ashten Lehwalder
Macrofungi in urban and rural forests, Jordan Leis, Trinity Ronk-Degraffenreid, and Nancy Broshot
Fostering Connectedness Amidst Crisis: LGBTQ Communities in 2020, Daniel Leister-Gray
Black Gold, White Gold, and the Bear's Influence Over Central Asian Economies, Jennifer Leo
Agent-based Activity Generation of Runners for City Infrastructure Planning, Quang Le
A ‘Superlicious’ Feast: A Rhetorical Analysis of Davy Crockett’s Almanacs as an Early Form of White National Identity, Darren L. Letendre
Session 2: Panel 1: Presenter 2 (Paper) -- Pope Leo X and the St. Peter’s Indulgence: The Accidental Path to Reformation and Church Fragmentation, Charlotte Levine
Automated Test Generation for Validating SystemC Designs, Bin Lin
Something Old, Something New: How Chapbooks and Crowdfunding can Reduce Financial Risk for Small Publishers, Jennifer Lindsay
"Like I Was an Actual Researcher": Participation and Identity Trajectories of Underrepresented Minority and First-Generation STEM Students in Research Training Communities of Practice, Jennifer Lynn Lindwall
Assessing the Impact of Changing Drought Conditions on Wildfire Emissions in Washington and Oregon, Maggie Liu
Virology: Mutagenizing the Proteolytic Cleavage Site in the Major Capsid Protein in SSV1, Thejanee Liyanaarachchi