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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Adolescent Preventive Care Outcomes Before and After COVID-19 Onset: What is the Role of Telehealth?, Sarah Hayden Knipper
How Did I Get Here? A Capstone Review, Michael Koach
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Key Drivers of Plant Resilience: Mechanisms of Stress Adaptation in Saline Environments, Rayna Elizabeth Koberstein
The Tyrant King of the Auction House: The Disastrous “Fine Artification” of the Dinosaur, Amelia C. Kolstad
From Farm to Friend: Fostering Compassion toward Farmed Animals through Design, Natalie Kosmos
At Home in Horror: Women and Body Horror, Brooklynn Kreps
Expanded Patient Reach at New Student Run Free Medical Clinic Location, Olivia Krol, Hana Warmflash, and Alex Foster
History in the Margins: Analysis of How the Language in U.S. History Textbooks Used in Portland Public Schools Marginalizes the History, Contributions, and Voices of People of Color, Ella Christine LaHue Brown
A Volume of Things, Rachael Lane Stedman
The Rainbow War: Ballot Measure 9 and the Fight Over Gay Rights in Oregon, Patrick Douglas LaSalle
Industries, Self-Rated Health, and Status Characteristics: An Exploration of Health in Industries at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Disability, Emmanuel Legarreta
Therapeutic Potential of Follistatin mRNA-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles for Skeletal Muscle Healing in a Cardiotoxin-Induced Injury Model, Ngoc Phuong Bao Le
"I know who I am": Draw-and-Tell Conversations with Gender-Creative Children, Eline Leemans Lenne
Head of Roses, Remy Levine
Working Paper No. 87, The Double-Edged Sword of American Philanthropy, Nathan Lewis-Lusso
Working Paper No. 97, Business Sabotage in Theory and Practice, Nathan Lewis-Lusso
What's the Value of a State? Accounting for the Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital of Oregon, Kathryn Liebrecht
Digesting the Details: How Cooking Shapes the Microbiome and Influences Obesity, Tracy Lieu
How do Patient-Provider Relationships Affect Patient Satisfaction?, Rose D. Lightspeed
From Lockdown to Learning: Understanding Motivation Shifts in High School Students Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Kelly Lindberg
Sabin CDC Affordable Infill Initiative, Andrew Lindstrom, Casey Dobbert, Josh Miller, Laura Fleming, Menodora Roos-LeMaster, and Nick Flowers
So Who Gets To Be Modern? Jadidism and Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Russia, Grant Douglas Linville