• Chinese Perceptions of the Environment 

  Fang, Hong (University of Oregon, 1997-06)

  How to protect the global environment and how to obtain a sustainable development are the major concerns of the international community today. China, with the biggest population and the highest economic growth rate in ...
• Interdisciplinary Negotiations: The Disconnect between Architects and Historic Preservationists 

  Leavitt, Skyla (University of Oregon Libraries, 2020-06)

  In the interdisciplinary practice of historic building preservation, there is a disconnect between architecture and historic preservation professionals because each side is not fully aware of the responsibilities and ...
• New Capabilities for Self-Driving Networks 

  Rudolph, Nolan

  Granted the annual trends in increasing internet usage, the University of Oregon Networking Research Group preemptively researches the concept of Self-Driving Networks (S-DNs) to create a self-remediating, high-performance ...
• Learning to learn: Making sense of electrophysiology data 

  Leriche, Ryan

  With no previous signal processing background, I began to study how electrical brain waves vary with movement speed and uncertainty. I learned when fleshing out the details or just seeing the big picture made sense for the ...
• Transmission of Ecological Knowledge Through Star Myths 

  Dieni, Caryssa

  Ethnoastronomical research indicates that early agricultural societies used regular changes in the positions of asterisms to predict seasonal change and determine when to plant crops, and that this knowledge was encoded, ...
• “What does being Latino/Latina/Latinx mean to you?”: A Thematic Analysis of Oregon Latinx Students and Their Ethnic Identity 

  Auld, Maya

  The current study uses inductive thematic analysis to derive themes from responses to an open-ended question. This study was set in Oregon where 23% of k-12 students are Latinx (Gill et al., 2019). Data for the present ...
• The Influence of Expertise and Context on the Categorization of Music: A Cognitive Science Study 

  Imhoff, James S. (University of Oregon, 1995)

  Recent developments in Cognitive Science have demonstrated that, contrary to traditional thinking, categories are not rigid, feature-defined phenomena. Rather , they are influenced by human experience and by the context ...
• Preservation identity, ideals, and expertise : outcries outcasts and outcomes in preservation's livability debate 

  Adams, Shawna (University of Oregon, 2005-06)

  Historic preservationists and other placemaking professionals act with the intention of influencing the physical environment, or of the way in which people understand and relate to their physical surroundings. They act ...
• Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve : a model for success in preservation 

  Davis, Ashley N. (University of Oregon, 2012-06)

  There is a shift that has been taking place in the west for a while now, and it is moving the focus of many National Park Service sites away from federal land ownership. This change revolves around the many controversies ...
• Green preservation : a guidebook for owners of historic buildings 

  Gratreak, Leesa (University of Oregon, 2012-06)

  Statements like "These windows are too old", "I need to build a new structure if I want it to be efficient", and "as long as it is LEED certified it must be a sustainable project" illustrate this point: There is a ...
• Prune driers of the Pacific Northwest : a building type comes to fruition 

  Steckbeck, Kristine Nicole (University of Oregon, 2012-03)

  The historic built environment associated with drying prunes in Oregon and Washington has been faced with the problem of a changed agricultural economy that has made prune driers obsolete and endangered structures on ...
• The rural landscapes of Lane County, Oregon, then and now : a case study of thirty years of landscape change 

  Shirkey, Nina (University of Oregon, 2012-09)

  Rural landscapes have been slow to gain recognition as an important historic and cultural resource. In 1982 a pioneering study of rural landscapes took place in Lane County, Oregon. Despite the groundbreaking nature of ...
• A redevelopment and adaptive re-use study : Fourth Street and the Lincoln and Victory highways in Reno, Nevada 

  Fockler, Christina L. (University of Oregon, 2004-03-02)

  This project summarizes the history of Reno, Nevada and its growth as a city by its many modes of transportation such as the transcontinental railroad and two of the nations first transcontinental highways. A brief history ...
• Improvising in the Loop: Seven Improvisatory, Loop-Based Pieces for Customized Data-Driven Instruments; A Digital Portfolio Dissertation 

  Asman, Nathan Morris (University of Oregon, 2020-05)

  Improvising in the Loop serves as both a compendium of and comprehensive guide to the music I have written and performed as well as the instruments I have created and designed during my tenure as a doctoral student at ...
• The F.E. Company industrial site : historic resources and preservation potential 

  Reckard, M. K. (1993-08)

  Large scale corporate mining operations had a broad impact on the sparsely settled areas of western North America in the early twentieth century. The Fairbanks Exploration Company's gold dredging operations were probably ...
• The preservation & repair of cast zinc grave markers 

  Fagin, Elizabeth (University of Oregon, 2002)

  Cast zinc grave markers were only produced by one company: The Monumental Bronze Co. and its subsidiary foundries established throughout the U.S. and Canada. They were produced for a limited time from, 1874 to 1939, ...
• The Oregon State Fair Poultry Building : ǂb a tangible representation of the social importance of poultry agriculture in Oregon, late 19th century-early 20th century 

  Burk, Kathryn M. (University of Oregon, 2008-12)

  The poultry building at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem represents in physical form the significance of poultry agriculture in the early twentieth century. Constructed in 1921 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, ...
• RETURN TO THE FLOODPLAIN: THE ROLE OF BEAVERS (CASTOR CANADENSIS) IN RESTORING CHANNEL COMPLEXITY AT WASSON CREEK 

  Marshall, Sarah Marie (University of Oregon, 2004-08)

  Beavers (Castor canadensis) are a keystone species capable ofrapidly altering habitat and hydrologic conditions in aquatic ecosystems. At Wasson Creek, a degraded stream in the South Slough National Estuarine Research ...
• Re-imagining River Road for Ecological Equity 

  Urone, Julia; Arroyo, John (University of Oregon, 2020)

  LTD tasked students with identifying concepts to support a more sustainable, equitable transportation system and associated community uses along the River Road corridor in Eugene. Working in groups, students investigated ...
• Pettit Lake: A New Treasure for Silverton 

  Koonce, Elizabeth; Ribe, Robert (University of Oregon, 2020)

  This report includes student work from the LA 489/589 Advanced Design Studio in fall term of 2019. This work was executed by landscape architecture students in collaboration with the city of Silverton with the goal of ...

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