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Theses from 2021
Noise as Music: Effects of Physical and Digital Noise in One's Life, Juliana Bigelow
The Relationship Between Regulation and Care Access in the Doula Industry, Charissa Billings
Identifying the Cost of Preventable Chronic Disease in Prison: Can Illness Prevention of Adults in Custody Save Money?, Molly Bineham
Understanding Visibility of Queer Bodies Through Discursive and Materialist Schools of Thought, Evelyn Birnbaum
Rhyolite Stratigraphy Along Succor Creek: Insights into the Eruptive History of the Three Fingers and Mahogany Mountain Volcanic Field, Cassandra Caryl Black
Pride, Prejudice, and Diversity: The Retelling Culture The Development and Analysis of Best Practices for Diverse Modern Re-imaginings of the Classics, Hannah Boettcher
Methods of Memorialization: Holocaust Commemoration in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Kylee Bolinger
Session 2: Panel 1: Presenter 1 (Paper) -- The Struggle of the Soul Medieval Women Mystics and the Constraints of the Orthodoxy, Kasaundra A. Bonanno
Graphite Sun, Lucie Anne Bonvalet
Using the Area Under the Curve Method to Model Gestational Weight Gain in a Safety Net Population, Anna Booman and Janne Boone-Heinonen
Session 2: Panel 2: Presenter 1 (Paper) -- A Brief History of Footwear, Tobias B. Boudreau
Seamen and Sinners: Piracy and the Labor Culture of the Early Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, Avonlea Bowthorpe
Seabedding: Stories, Hayley Boyd
Simulating Dislocation Densities with Finite Element Analysis, Ja'Nya Breeden, Dow Drake, and Saurabh Puri
Sustaining Boys' Motivation Over the Transition to Middle School: Can Interpersonal Resources Protect Boys from Engagement Declines Across Sixth Grade?, Brandy Anne Brennan
Quantifying Biotic VOC Emissions from Moss: Air Quality Impacts of Isoprene and Monoterpenes in Urban Environments, Danlyn L. Brennan
Vancouver Gateway Project, Vancouver, Washington, Brandon Brezic, Isabella Day, Jesse Debord, Brett Herb, Dylan Nichols, and Tera Perala
Teaching Children Emotional Intelligence: A Closer Look at the Barbie Vlogs, Jillian C. Britton
North American Expatriates in Mexico: a Discourse Analysis of Facebook Groups, Liliana Carolina Brock
Songs from the Wasteland, Nitya Prem Brorson
Diversity and Representation in Oregon’s Battle of the Books, Catharine Brown
Economic Primer & Policy Analysis: Rent Control Policies & Oregon SB-608, Gabrielle A. Brown
Niche Partitioning And Utilization Of Different Nitrogen Sources By Marine Cyanobacteria Synechococcus, Angel Bui and Anne W. Thompson
The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), Future Adult Incarceration, and Poor Mental Health- A Literature Review, Letasi M. Burgess