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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Evaluation of Performance of Spindle Connector and its Finite Element Analysis, Suhyun Lee
Is More Always Better? A Look at Visitation and Recidivism, Teriin Lee
A Cyber-Anthropological Interrogation of East Asian Parenting Styles and Kinship Systems, Catherine Lefevre and Charles H. Klein
How Indigenous-Language Court Interpreters and Clients Navigate the U.S. Court System Under Strict Court-Interpreting Guidelines, Ashten Lehwalder
Macrofungi in urban and rural forests, Jordan Leis, Trinity Ronk-Degraffenreid, and Nancy Broshot
Fostering Connectedness Amidst Crisis: LGBTQ Communities in 2020, Daniel Leister-Gray
Black Gold, White Gold, and the Bear's Influence Over Central Asian Economies, Jennifer Leo
Agent-based Activity Generation of Runners for City Infrastructure Planning, Quang Le
A ‘Superlicious’ Feast: A Rhetorical Analysis of Davy Crockett’s Almanacs as an Early Form of White National Identity, Darren L. Letendre
Session 2: Panel 1: Presenter 2 (Paper) -- Pope Leo X and the St. Peter’s Indulgence: The Accidental Path to Reformation and Church Fragmentation, Charlotte Levine
Automated Test Generation for Validating SystemC Designs, Bin Lin
Something Old, Something New: How Chapbooks and Crowdfunding can Reduce Financial Risk for Small Publishers, Jennifer Lindsay
"Like I Was an Actual Researcher": Participation and Identity Trajectories of Underrepresented Minority and First-Generation STEM Students in Research Training Communities of Practice, Jennifer Lynn Lindwall
Assessing the Impact of Changing Drought Conditions on Wildfire Emissions in Washington and Oregon, Maggie Liu
Virology: Mutagenizing the Proteolytic Cleavage Site in the Major Capsid Protein in SSV1, Thejanee Liyanaarachchi
Politeness Strategies Used in Invitations in Japanese, Natsuko Llewellyn
Portland’s Stormwater Permitting, Policy & Processes: A Stakeholder & Geospatial Analysis, Mary T. Logalbo and Mary Logalbo
Boy: Creation in a Void, Archer Long
Rockwood Identity Project, Phil Longenecker, Ana Navia, Natalie Chavez, Francisco Ibarra, Max Nonnamaker, and Eric Trinh
The Role of Native Lens α-crystallin in Amyloid Suppression Using β-amyloid as a Model Amyloid Client, Leilani Lopes
Asset-Based Community Development and Participatory Design in an Intergenerational Affordable Housing Community in Oregon, Hannah Lopez
Optimization Modeling for Best Location for New Plant, Erick Lorenzo, Geoff Gifford, Hai Ton, Luciane Dolgos, and Navdeep Singh
Next Generation Sequencing Identifies Population Structure and Signatures of Local Adaptation in Red Alder (Alnus rubra Bong.), Jacob Brent Loveless
Session 2: Panel 2 (Video) -- La Longue Durée of the History of Global Commodities and Practices, Thomas M. Luckett, Tobias B. Boudreau, Ben Iboshi, and Celeste Johnson