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Theses from 2021
Potential Therapeutic Effects of Snake Venom Components on Pain Management in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients, Maggie Metzger
Transportation Network Companies, Proposition 22, and the Future of Labor Relations in the United States, Nate Midgley
Using Blood Biomarkers to Predict Traumatic Brain Injury, Rosol Hatim Mikail and Martin Schreiber
Peak-Load Pricing in Portland: Theory, Application, and Recommendations for Central Business District Pricing Policy, Camille N. Mikkelsen
Emotional Intelligence and Resonant Leadership: Investigating School Principals' Preparation and Professional Development in Response to Covid-19 and Other Challenges, Ashlie Kaye Miller
My Mountain, Your Mountain, Our Mountain: Incorporating Emotional and Sensory Experiences in Mapping Sense of Place in Mount Hood National Forest, Alicia RaNae Milligan
Before Menstruation: The Upholding and Downfall of Child Marriage in India, Amanda Mills
Foreword: Mark O. Hatfield's Legacy, Anthony Miranda
Burnt Out: Encouraging Breaks and Lessening Burnout Symptoms in a Digital Landscape, Maria Miranda
Trail Impact Monitoring in Forest Park, James Mitchell
An Analysis of Capillary Flow in Finite Length Interior Corners, Samuel Shaw Mohler
Flocks, Digraphs, and Oscillator Arrays, Choomno Moos and J. J. P. Veerman
The Erasure of Intersex, Transgender, Nonbinary, and Agender Experiences by Misusing Sex and Gender in Health Research, Tessalyn Morrison, Alexis Dinno, and Taurica Salmon
Understanding Financial and Human Resource Capacity Challenges among Small Nonprofits in Oregon: How to Overcome Challenges Unique to Size and Urban-Rural Divide, Anindita Mukerjee
Assessment of Vertical Accuracy from UAV-LiDAR and Structure from Motion Point Clouds in Floodplain Terrain Mapping, Andrew Muller
Does Reading Violent Books Increase Aggression? Perceptions of an Overlooked Medium, Cassandra H. Muniz
Forecasting Optimal Parameters of the Broken Wing Butterfly Option Strategy Using Differential Evolution, David Munoz Constantine
Hybrid-lipid Coated Silver Nanoparticles as an Antimicrobial, Alexandria Murphy, Marilyn R. Mackiewicz, and Michael S. Bartlett
Tourism Route Optimization for Portland, Oregon, Duane Murray, Mohammed Thawab, Adnan Binmahfood, Mohammed Zaid, and Colin Owens
Decolonizing Healthcare: a Black Feminist Analysis of Sisters Informing Sisters on Topics of AIDS (SISTA), Joy Mutare Fashu Kanu
An Analysis of Suspended Sediment Dynamics in a Partially Mixed Estuary, Riyadh Hamad Muttaleb
Session 2: Panel 1: Presenter 3 (Paper) -- Hunting Power through Witch Hunts in Early Modern Scotland, Devika D. Narendra
Evaluation of Sex Education Curriculum and Policy Related to the Needs of LGBTQ+ Latinx Youth, Olivia Nayler
Project MKULTRA: How the CIA Used the Cold War to Commit Horrors on US Citizens, Dawson M. Neely
Mutual Aid as Spiritual Tacit Knowledge Within Doukhobor Epistemology, Rachel L. Neubuhr Torres