• A Sight to Dwell Upon and Never Forget: Illuminating Strategies for Saving Portland's Neon Signs 

  Ebersole, Jeremy (University of Oregon, 2020-06)

  Few elements of the twentieth century built environment have historically stirred as much optimism, ire, or nostalgia as neon signs. Despite a growing appreciation for its value by both municipalities and the general ...
• Hay muchos Méxicos: A New Approach to Designing International Information Literacy Instruction 

  Hicks, Alison; Maxson, Bronwen K.; Reyes, Betsaida M. (2020-10-19)

  The globalization of campuses has led to increasing numbers of international and exchange students. However, librarians often develop instructional opportunities for students from other countries with little understanding ...
• Handle vvith Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies 

  Collen, Robin Latshaw (Texas Woman's University, 2002-12)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate how human touch may be used within a modern dance technique class to facilitate effective teaching ,and learning. This inquiry was based on two initial assumptions: (a) touch ...
• Potential enforcement mechanisms for nonpoint source pollution controls 

  Hildreth, Richard G. (Ocean and Coastal Law Center, School of Law, University of Oregon, 1996-06-30)

  In December 1994 the federal Environmental Protections Agency's Region 10 published "A Watershed Assessment Primer" (EPA 910-B-94-005). Appendix C of that report by this author, Mara Brown, and Robert Shavelson was an ...
• Ocean resources and intergovernmental relations in the 1980's : Outer continental shelf hydrocarbons and minerals 

  Hildreth, Richard G. (Ocean and Coastal Law Center, School of Law, University of Oregon, 1985-09-12)

  The author utilizes the legal indicia, primary court opinions, of federal-state conflict over outer continental shelf oil and gas development in the 1980's to support more general observations about intergovernmental ...
• Proposed Framework for the Lane Regional Resiliency Collaborative 

  Rhodeland, Amelia; Boone, Jake; Fields, Katie; Mason, Kelly (Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, 2020)

  In the fall of 2019, the Oregon Policy Lab and the Wayne Morse Center (both part of the University of Oregon) worked with the Lane County government to plan and facilitate two meetings to discuss the need for resiliency ...
• Community Building and Network Development Between the Unhoused Community, Service Providers, and Housed Neighborhoods 

  Frisius, Meredith; O'Connor, Kerry; Reiter, Sarah; Wood, Laney (Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, 2020)

  This research project is the result of a partnership between the City of Eugene and the University of Oregon’s School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management. The first objective of this project was to identify best ...
• Cleaner Air Spaces in Lane County: Policy Interventions for Mitigating the Health Impacts of Smoke Intrusion Events 

  Matonte, Jay; Cobb, Arron; Burdette, Eric; Ang, Stanley (Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, 2020)

  Air pollution events have the potential to disrupt daily life and lead to health impacts on the population. Current projections estimate a four- to five-fold increase in the incidence of wildfires, as well as increased ...
• The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19 

  Radcliffe, Damian (What's New In Publishing, 2020)

  This free-to-download report brings together the best examples of how media organisations have risen to meet the challenges of COVID-19. It looks at a range of tips and tactics to help all kinds of publishers, from ...
• Wild Notions: Preservation of Historic Buildings in Oregon Wilderness 

  Helmer, Charlotte M. (University of Oregon, 2020)

  There is a common misperception that historic sites cannot be maintained once they are included in a wilderness designation. This conflict ultimately does a disservice to both heritage and wilderness resources. To that ...
• Environmental Apocalypse in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold 

  Wolf, Hannah Eleanor (University of Oregon, 2019)

  Fears concerning the destruction of the natural world and the imminence of an environmental apocalypse came to fruition long before the realization of global climate change. In fact, as early as 1848, Richard Wagner pondered ...
• The Exploration and Application of NuclearMagnetic Resonance (NMR):An investigation into the compound KMnO4 (Potassium Permanganate) 

  Wise, Emmet Kenneth (University of Oregon, 2019)

  Examining compounds through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy allows scientific researchers to better understand the materials being used in not only a scientific setting, but in everyday life as well. One such ...
• "Desde Abajo, Como Semilla": Puerto Rican Food Sovereignty as Embodied Decolonial Resistance 

  Wilms-Crowe, Momo Wilms (University of Oregon, 2020)

  This thesis explores the power, possibility, and agency embedded in food in the contemporary Puerto Rican context. Building from participatory ethnographic fieldwork with activists, chefs, and farmers engaged in food ...
• The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Occupational Related Fatalities 

  Willman, Eli Robert (University of Oregon, 2019)

  This thesis examines the question of whether the legalization of medical marijuana has a positive or negative effect on the incidence of occupational fatalities. It hypothesizes that marijuana and alcohol are economic ...
• Motivations, Experience, and Personality Types of Start-up Founders 

  White, Mimi Rose (University of Oregon, 2020)

  This thesis focuses on the importance of considering previous experience, personality types, and motivations of each member of the founding team during the creation of a start-up venture. Eight start-up founders took a ...
• The Springfield (OR) Public Library 

  Wentlandt, Sophia M. (University of Oregon, 2020)

  The current Springfield Public Library building is spatially and organizationally inadequate considering the evolving and diverse needs of the library. This thesis lays out a design proposal for a new building, integrated ...
• Language Dominance and Lexical-Semantic Processing in Bilingual Toddlers 

  Ward, Abbey Lee (University of Oregon, 2020)

  Prior research suggests that language systems interact in bilingual individuals. The current study seeks to extend prior work by investigating whether or not bilingual toddlers exhibit cross-language priming effects and ...
• The Role of Semantic Predictability in Adaptation to Nonnative-Accented Speech 

  Walker, Kayla Jane (University of Oregon, 2020)

  Nonnative-accented speech is more difficult for native listeners to understand than native-accented speech. However, listeners can improve their abilities to understand nonnative-accented speech through exposure and training. ...
• Poised for Pedaling: Comparing Bicycle Infrastructure in Copenhagen, Denmark and Portland, Oregon 

  Vermilya, Sean Patrick (University of Oregon, 2020)

  This thesis investigates the following question: how can Portland learn from Copenhagen’s policy successes and failures to better develop, implement, and utilize bicycle infrastructure going forward? The thesis begins by ...
• The Role of the Chemoreceptor Zinc-Binding Domain in Bacterial Signal Transduction 

  Tudorica, Dan Alexandru (University of Oregon, 2020)

  Chemotaxis is the biochemical and cellular process by which bacteria sense particular molecules in their environment and adjust swimming behaviors accordingly. Chemotaxis and other motility alterations in response to ...

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