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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Experiences of Support and Success for Students of Color in the Midwifery Educational Setting, Laura Jenson
The King's Wolf, Epiphany Jesequel
Integrative Approaches to Climate Resilience Planning: Application of a Plan Evaluation Framework, Maulsri Jha
Investigation into Thermodynamic and Kinetic Phenomena in Arylation Reactions with Diaryliodonium Salts, Soocheta Jha
A Critical Appraisal of Poverty in the Context of Nature-Based Communities: Selected Cases from the Philippines, Carla Edith Gonzales Jimena
"Significant Bodily Intrusions": Investigations into Law Enforcement Phlebotomy, Anne Kathleen Johnson
ritr, Kathryn Elizabeth Johnson
Islands in Motion: The Transnational Ties Between Japan and Hawaii, 1885-1945, Annalise Jones
A Groundwater Flow System Investigation in the Upper Rowena Creek Drainage, Oregon, CateLee YaMei Kambur
A New Era of Zines: Taking Lessons From the Past to Combat Intellectual and Political Fascism, Catherine Kane
Hybrid Publishing and the Legacy Memoir: A New Model For Preservation, Julie Kanta
Working Paper No. 98, Selma Mushkin and the Emergence of the Field of Health Economics, Sadie Kautz
AcademyHealth - 2024 Data Visualization Winners, Chelsea Keating, Emily Boniface, and Mina Colon
Contemporary Echoes From the Progressive Era: A Historical Reclamation Project of Caroline Pratt and Her Play-Based Pedagogy, Charleen Lynn Kepner
Seismic Fragility Analysis of Above-ground Liquid Storage Tanks, Pooyan Khajeh Shahzanian
Assessing the Challenges Latin Immigrant Populations Face in Accessing Healthcare and Proposing Solutions to Improve Accessibility, Melina Khiabani
Trauma-Born Generations and Intergenerational Conflict: A Study of Tensions in the Contemporary South Korean, Daihyun Kim
Agglomeration Economies in Social Economy Clusters: The Role of Networks, Mina Kim
Sex Worker Stigma, Morality and Ambivalent Sexism, Emily Kate Kinzel
East Portland GRID: Supporting Clean Industry and Residents, Allison Kirkpatrick, Andrew Azar, Diego Joao Murphy-Mendez, Evan Howington, Kate Carroll, and Maura Paxton