This open access collection of exemplary graduate and undergraduate work includes nearly forty sub-collections: award-winning capstone projects, faculty-mentored research, and peer-reviewed scholarship. Find theses, dissertations, research projects, posters, presentations, articles, and more.
Search the Collection to find a topic or limit by discipline, keyword, date, or publication.
Student work
- comprises one third of PDXScholar.
- includes all PSU theses and dissertations.
- represents 60% of PDXScholar downloads.
- has been downloaded nearly 10 million times!
- Popular Content
Top 10 downloads - Undergraduate Research Commons
More than 700 publications in our repository network - Browse the Digital Commons Network
Over 500 colleges & universities in our shared repository
Please see the submission guidelines of each journal/event before submitting an online form.
- Journals
- Conferences & Symposia
- Faculty Nomination Form
- Program-specific Submission Forms
- Undergraduate Research Commons (Beyond PSU)
Organized by discipline, search for "Open to All" publications
- Top Downloads/Streams
- Readership Distribution
- PlumX Metrics
Item-level usage, citations, captures, mentions, and social media posts
Learn More: Portland State Research
Bringing the future into focus through groundbreaking research and scholarship
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
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
"Your Food is Who You Are": Food Sovereignty within a Native Urban Community Garden, Zoe Buhrmaster
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph R. Burns
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns
Analyzing the Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Legacy of the United Nations, Hunter Wade Calley
Fragments of a Dream: Armenia and the Shadow of Genocide, Ada A. Camp
QIBC Analysis on Killifish Cells Under Anoxic Conditions, Jaina Canlas
Rupturing Silence(s): Memoir of a Voice, Abigail Rose Card
Large Length Scale Droplet Capillary Phenomena: Generation, Jump, and Capture, Karl Jeffrey Theodore Cardin
Unlocking Potential: The Transformative Power of Trauma-Informed Schools on Students' Well-Being and Academic Success, Tiffany Carolino
Urgent Care Program Influences on an Integrated Health Care System, Craig H. Carter
Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Machismo on Pregnant Women in Mexico: A Systematic Review, Amber Casarrubias-Enriquez
Beavers, Hydrology, and Wapato: A Baseline for Monitoring Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Justine Casebolt
A Case Study in Vacillant Literary Analysis: Nella Larsen's Passing (1929), Sara Casten
Readiness of Cybersecurity in the USA Energy Industry, Aaron Cavanaugh
Adopting OER Course Materials: Instructor Experiences, Jenny Ceciliano