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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Getting Close, Sadie Laufe McCarthy
From Mogadishu to Minneapolis: Transnational Political and Social Ties in the Somali Diaspora, Kate E. McFarland
The Gut Microbiome, the Gut-Brain Axis, and College Student Well-Being, Idi McKay
Looking Upwards and Out: Comparing Buddhist and Humanist Frameworks for Enlightenment, Mason McKinney-Best
The Dolor: How a Generation of Women Quietly Lost their Children, Alexis McLean
Exploitation in Conscientious Carnivorism, Killian McMahon
Relativistic Corrections to H, O(VII), and Fe(XXV) Lineshapes in Hot Plasmas, Asa Drew Dawdy McNaughton
Oregon Metro’s Regional Land Banking Site Selection Strategy, Margot McNeely, Autumn Fluetsch, David Archuleta, Denise Torres, Dylan Giliberto, and Rebekah Markillie
Radical Social Work in the United States: An Integrative Literature Review, Anastasia Miller
Rooted in Hillsboro: An Urban Tree Protection Project, Leandre Mills, Aidan McClinton, Aria Shopbell, Karl Coppock, and Wally McAllister
Beyond the Best Prompt: A Coverage View of Multilingual Reasoning, Harshiv Mistry
Beyond Predation: Invasive Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) Alters Juvenile Pacific Oyster (Magallana gigas) Function and Survival Across Environmental Gradients, Isabel Helena Mize
Rapid-Prototyping Nanofabrication: LCD-Based Projection Lithography and Physical Vapor Deposition, Sabeel Saleem Mohammmed
Not Everyone Gets a Tree: Housing Values, Street Trees, and Equity in Portland, Matthew Moller
"What About Me?": Explaining Voting Patterns Among Young Men in the 2024 Election, Camille Moore
Political Elections in the New Wave of Media: The Celebrification of the Presidency, Camille B. Moore
Artemisia Gentileschi's Last Susanna, Shelby A. Morgan
Chondrites from Northwestern Nevada: The Jungo Dense Collection Area, Nico Morrelli
An Examination of Two Atypical Carbonaceous Chondrites, Nico Morrelli and Melinda Hutson
Estuary, Aly Morris
Madwoman Makings: The Modern Girl as an Object of Fear and Fascination in Unno Jūza’s "Mrs. Hirumi's Refrigeration Bag", Eliza Joy Mortimer
Estuary Doorway, Penelope Moskowitz
Rarely Asked: The Systemic Failure to Support the Mental Health of Caregivers of Medically Complex Children, Morgan Motsinger
Elucidating the Function of YedK in Response to DNA Damage, Hank Munro