Biology
Holzer, Katie - Amphibian Conservation in Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
Chemistry
Delaney, Frances - RNA Synthesis Employing 2’-Allyl Protection Chemistry and RuII(H2O)6 Deprotection Catalyst
Communications
Burnett, Katie - Political Advertising & New Media Technologies: Websites, Facebook, and YouTube in the 2008 Presidential Primaries
Chapman, Ryan - Can I Buy You a Drink? - An Analysis of Male Flirting Goals and Messages
Corso, Jeff - Defamed Electronically: The Modification of Traditional Defamation Law to Suit the Electronic Media Frontier
Farr, Al - The Copycat Phenomenon: The Influence of News Media on the Future of School Shootings
Franks, Hunter - Stuart Scott: Hip-Hop Broadcaster
Housman, Lisa - Go For the Goal: Mass Media Representations of Female Athletes in the 2007 Women's World Cup
Loebner, Katie - Multicultural Garden Discourse: The Self, The Group, and The Land
Ross, Becka - Creating A Love That is as Broad[band] as the Universe: Creating Romantic Relationships Through Online Dating Services
Saunderson, Andrew - Soda: I Don't Want It! A Counter Advertising Proposal in Response to Television Nutrition Ads Contribution to Childhood Obesity
Smith, Nicki - Feeling Foreign: How Communication Competence Affects the Extent of Culture Shock
Steelman, Lisa - Scream Queens and Final Girls: The Depiction of Women in American Slasher Films of the Past Decade
Takayama, Teal - "One Nation Under God": Religious Metaphors in State of the Union Addresses Since 1961
Vielma, Adan - 360 OS: The Future of Communication with the Computer
Wennerlind, Mike - Pastor Polarity:Sermon Success From Diverse Perspectives In The Megachurch Movement
Yarranton, Rachel - Framing Political Culture: An Analysis of the 2004 Televised Presidential Campaign Ads
Economics
Broz, Thomas - Has Superfund Liability Reduced the EPA's Burden to Lead Cleanup Actions?
Mandsager, Paul - Childhood Diseases and Health Outcomes in Developing Countries
Matthews, Morgan - PRIVATE SCHOOL VOUCHERS AND STUDENT SORTING: AN APPLICATION OF THE RECENT PEER EFFECTS LITERATURE
Smith, Dylan Tyler - Still Searching for the Sunk Cost Effect
Van Otterloo, Josh - Incomplete Public Contracting: Theory and an Application to Emergency Ambulance Service
Environmental Studies
Garvey, Megan - Ross Island: The Value of a Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace
Schmidt, Alexa - Place Attachment and Forced Migration: Reimagining Home, Roots, and Environmentalism
Shannon, Megan - Landscapes of Modernity: Class, Power & The Production of Natural Space
French
Anderson, Zven - Construire un modèle du roi : Responsabilité, justice, raison et d’autres aspects fondamentaux du monarque dans la littérature médiévale
Hellmich, Emily - Libérer la femme à travers le fou ? Pinel, Sand et la condition féminine au XIXe siècle
Sandgren, Kate - Du Texte à l’image : représentations du Loup et l’agneau à travers l’histoire
History
Hayes, Jeffrey - Grounds for Neutrality: Britain and the American Civil war
Kerr, Allie - “The Wild and the Wonderful”: Penny Dreadfuls and Victorian Social Responses
Rodgers, Anna - The Cadbury Conscience: How a Quaker Industrial Family Pursued Social Justice
International Affairs
Jiang, Hongda - THREAT PERCEPTION AND SINO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
Philosophy
Braich, Matt - Strawson and Allison on Kant's Transcendental Idealism
Political Science
Steele, Trevor - Campaign Database Systems: Centralization of Political Party Structure in the Race for Microtargeting Supremacy
Tawney, Whitney Lee - SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: CHANGING RHETORIC TO FIT IN A MASCULINE WORLD
Psychology
Van Gelder, Martha - Evaluations of Active and Passive Ova in Human Fertilization
Sociology / Anthropology
Anderson, Leah - Bioprospecting In-between Borders: Re-enchanting the Science of Taxol among Researchers and American Indians of the Northwest
Anthony, Madeleine - Of C-Sections and Cyborgs: The Rise in Medically Unnecessary Birth Interventions in the United States
Bailey/Farber, Max - Advertising as Graffiti: The Changing Streetscape of Varanasi
Brandt, Oliver - The Kids Love Jagged: Portland's Pearl District and The Appropriation of Urban Symbols
Capsalis, Cate - La Murga es la comunidad: Song, Community, and Praxis in Argentine Carnival
Carpenter, Brienne - The Fifth Dimension: An Ethnography of a Spiritual Subculture in Oregon
Case, Amber - The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial Sites of Engagement
Desautels, Devon - Structure and Antistructure: The Stage for Artistic Revolution
Dilley, Riana - "Exploring" The Favela: A Personal and Ethnographic Investigation in Favela Tourism
Doescher, Karen - Identity in Ruins: Toward an Understanding of National Identity, Ethnic Conflict, and Belize Valley Archaeology
Dubey, Lauren - The Politics of Representation: T-shirts and Transformation of HIV/AIDS Stigma in Peru
Glusman, Ellie - Activism and Commodification: Celebrities Meet Generation Y in the New Public Sphere
Golden, Haley - The Transformative and Subversive Possibilities of Online "Meeting:" A Brief Look into the Craig's List Personals Section
Grundy, Diane - A Genetically Modified Fallacy: An Examination of the Failure of Transgenic Bt Cotton in Indian Agriculture
Hackett, Amanda - Defining the Ethnic Self: Malleable and Multiple Identities and the Greek Experience in the United States
Hobstetter, Lauren - Meat: An Investigation into Meat Production in the United States
Jorgensen, Selena - Managing Health Disparities in the Age of Neoliberalism: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Safety-Net Clinic
Kiehl, Kate - From Psychiatry to Core Shamanism: Madness as a Matrix of Institution, Theory and Lived Reality
Nabb, Heather - No Joke: Unabashed or Muted Humor as a Means of Power and Resistance for Women in the Workplace
Nelson, Casey - Women, Poverty, and HIV/AIDS: Matrices of Oppression and the Struggle for Agency in the Lives of Nairobi's Female Sex Workers
Phillips, Kate - Deconstructing Sibling Abuse: Uncovering the Roots of a Socially Naturalized Form of Violence
Sander, Karyne - Are the Superheroes of Today the Same as Yesterday?: A gendered examination of comic book superheroes and the subsequent films
Sutherland, Cailen - Melting Your Addiction: The Solidity of Societal Factors Constructing the Ibogaine Debate in America
Thierry, Nick - Mis-Education Through Mis-Representation: American Cultural Ideology Exposed: White Minds and Black Bodies
Tran, Chatasha - Time, Space, and Kinship: Emerging Identities in a Vietnamese-American Family
Vannet, Clea - Life, Liberty and the Fear of Death: Condsiderations of the Experience of Terminal Illness in Contemporary American Culture
Wright, Christie - Producing PDX Culture
Biology
Arnold, Erika - Edge effects in Portland's urban forests: Variation in carabid beetle abundance, richness, diet, and origin
Phillips, Jennifer - A Comparative Analysis of Juvenal Plumage Variation in Terns
English
Bronston, Allie - "Stability in a Changing World": Objects as Consolation for Declining Religious Faith in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
Pollak, Ben - Untold History and the Official Record in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
Environmental Studies
McBride, Megan - Nutritional Inequities and the Food Environment
History
Haker, Joe - Let Them Grow Grapes: Statewide Land Use Planning and the Rise of "Wise Use" in Oregon
Hayes, Becky - Retelling the Apocalypse: The formation and use of sacred History in the apocalyptic eschatology of Saints Augustine and Bonaventure
Perkins, Andrew - Assimilation or Empowerment?
Sanchez, Adam - The Terror is in the Truth
International Affairs
David, Justin - Why Don't They Just Buy Bottled Water? Cooperation and International River Basins
Lanier, Frazer - Indigenous Voices in the International Community
Law, Dawson - Liberal Intergovernmentalism and European Integration: A Case Study of European Immigration Policy
Plotnick, Mischa - The Spread of Microfinance: Conditions for Microfinance Proliferation
Psychology
Garrison, Nicole - Role of Regulatory Focus in Self-Oriented Perfectionism
Heveran, Chelsea - The Effects of Test Anxiety on Test Performance: Psychological versus Physiological Responses.
Religious Studies
McCartan, Emily - Upon This Rock: Temple Conversion and Sacred Space in Early Christian Rome
Sociology / Anthropology
Alsberge, Joseph - Marginal Medicine: Structural Violence and Health Care in Portland, Oregon
Coats, Laurel - From Curious Invention To Appropriate Technology: Bicycles, Women, and The Underdevelopment of Rural Africa
Hinson, Leah - Women, Work, and Union Organizing: An Analysis of Gender and Labor Unions
Lowrey, Kestryl - No Man's Land: Dialectics of Masculinity in Non-Male Individuals
Foreign Languages
Barnes, Beau - Germany's Future in the World: Foreign Policy and Rhetoric in the 2005 Bundestag Election
Brones, Anna - La Problématique de la situation de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe dans la Caraïbe contemporaine
Hill, Sarah - Die sozialen Netzwerke und der politische Aktivismus von ostdeutschen Lesben vor und nach der Wende
Shupe, Kendra - "Para que la generación siguiente vea florecer esa unidad:" El panamericanismo y el pacifismo en la visión mistraliana
History
Blackmar, Charles - Architects and Blueprints: Acheson, Truman, and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Oothoudt, Deanna - For God or Country: Latter-day Saint Missionaries and English Protestants in Early Victorian England
Porterfield, Sara - Mount Rainier National Park: An Illustration of the 19th Century American Environmental Movement
Economics
Carlson, Sonya - Is Wal-Mart's "Efficiency" Based on a Government Subsidy: A Case Study of Oregon
Chu, Angela - Why Are Employee Contributions Towards Health Insurance Rising?
History
Jenkins, Sierra - An Imagined Community: How KGST "La Mexicana"1600 AM Served, Strengthened and Helped to Form the Mexican-American Community of California's Central Valley
Owenius, Victoria - Oregon Posten: The Importance of a Newspaper to Cultural Identity
Schreiner, Aili - Lessons in Domesticity, Lives of Autonomy: The Authoritative Voices of Field Matrons, Civilizers of the Indian Service
Foreign Languages
Vitiello, Elizabeth - Une Histoire en Sept Plats - A Story in Seven Courses
International Affairs
Ablutz, Kate - Linguistic Complexity and the Construction of International Relations
Arnold, Julia - Patriarchy and Microcredit: A Conflict
Bingham, Paul - Al Qaeda: Smashing the Myth of Realism, Advancing a Loose-Regime Theory
Freitas, Casia - Nonviolent Action: A Study of Overthrowing Dictators in Chile, The Philippines and China
Luckey, Javad - China's Spiraling Human Rights Crisis
Takahashi, Rintaro - The Crisis of Japanese Libreralism and the Rise of the Right-Wing
Taylor, Sara - The "Constitution" of Europe: Social Influence and the Legal Integration of the EC
Vizcaino, Agustin - Neo-liberalism and Development
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