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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub: A Look into the Seismic Fragility of Oregon’s Fuel, Annecy Bal
Childhood Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Fiction, Alana Baldwin-Joiner
Globalizing Noncitizen Detention, Jaye Balentine
Towards an Evolutionary-Institutional Analysis of Landlordship, Jaye Balentine
Letter from the Editor, Eliana Bane
Table of Contents, Eliana Bane
The Wounded Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Family Line, Lisa Banta
Community College Geoscience Faculty Perspectives on Critical Thinking Instructional Tools, Mariela Salas Bao
Session 1: Panel 1 (Video) -- Colonial Settler Policies And Practices And Their Impact On Local Communities, Katrine Barber, Ruby Lewis, Sara E. Shallenberger, and Madeleine G. Stewart
Quarantine Ethics: From Past to COVID-19, Chrystal Barnes
Investigations into Size and Surface Control of Silicon Nanocrystals for Improved Optical Properties, James Donald Barnes
Information Security Maturity Model for Healthcare Organizations in the United States, Bridget Joan Barnes Page
The Impact of Professors’ Heterosexual Identity in Higher Education Classrooms, Sam Barr
Creativity in Science, Engineering, and the Arts: A Study of Undergraduate Students' Perceptions, Dildora F. Beaulieu
How to Escape 130 Years of Being Unnatural, Incompetent, and Unviable: American Women Presidential Candidates Take to Social Media, Izabella Becherer
Awards Ceremony, Joy Beckett and Jennifer Kerns
Disaster and the Built Environment: How the PREPhub has the Potential to Impact Preparedness and Create Resilience during Natural Disasters., Sequoia Bellanca
Drug Conviction and Employment Restriction: Experiences of Employees with Drug-Related Criminal Histories, Liana Bernard
COVID-19 & BLM: Racial Inequity in Healthcare, Laken Berndt
Feeding & Swallowing in the NICU, Cassandra A. Berry
Opportunities and Challenges in the Collection and Use of Socio-Spatial Data in National Forest Planning, Diane Trechsel Besser
Should we talk about this? Investigating the potential impact of counseling on relocation satisfaction in expatriate employees, Kayleen Bettencourt and Nicholas Smith
Mitonuclear Mismatch is Associated with Increased Male Frequency, Outcrossing, and Male Sperm Size in Experimentally-Evolved C. elegans, Brent William Bever