• 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 ...
• Women Ball Too: “Redefyning” the Professional Women’s Sports Narrative through Female Athletes and the Women’s Sports Market 

  Togiai, Corinne Taunita (University of Oregon, )

  This thesis explores how women have consistently found themselves on the margins of sport, whether as fans, athletes, or entrepreneurs. Whereas previous literature has situated the treatment of women in comparison with ...
• A Lithostratigraphic Analysis of the Crooked River Mascall Formation, Central Oregon, USA 

  Thompson, Allie Elise (University of Oregon, 2020)

  This project presents a comprehensive lithostratigraphic record of the Middle Miocene Mascall Formation deposits of the Crooked River Basin in Central Oregon, USA. The Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) covered the Crooked ...
• Justice for All: The Construction of White Identity in Oregon Circuit Courts 

  Swanson, Sonya Marie (University of Oregon, 2019)

  American society is constructed atop an inveterately racist foundation. Oppressive institutions - including slavery, Jim Crow laws, and mass incarceration -have instituted the legal subjugation of People of Color, thus ...
• Modern Hermits: Hikikomori 

  Suzuki, Miko April (University of Oregon, 2020)

  This thesis is a literature review on hikikomori and the debate surrounding its classification. Primary focus will be on the compilation and analysis of research that pertains to hikikomori as either a Japanese culture-bound ...
• The Impact of Malnutrition on Cambodian Infants' Social Learning and Relationship with Their Mother 

  Steeves, Carina Anelise (University of Oregon, 2019)

  Malnutrition in infants and children in early stages of life is a serious problem in third world countries around the globe. Undernutrition contributes to delays in cognitive development, language acquisition, and physical ...
• American Individualism in the Anthropocene: The Cycle of Disruption and the Collapse of the Happy Consciousness 

  Snell, Daniel Earl (University of Oregon, 2020)

  Geological science widely accepts that in the middle of the 20th century the Earth entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. There is a key difference between the Anthropocene and previous geological epochs: Humans are the ...
• The Influence of Neoconservatism in the Depiction of Non-normative Women in Erotic Thrillers from 1980 to 2000 

  Slavit, Ilana Abigail (University of Oregon, 2020)

  U.S. erotic thrillers of the 1980s and 1990s are intrinsically intertwined with the socio-political history of the culture wars. Both the counter-culture movements and a laxation of cinematic censorship during the 1960s ...
• Massacre or Genocide?: Redefining the Sook Ching 

  Singsank, Lauralei Keiko (University of Oregon, 2020)

  Sook Ching is a Chinese term meaning “purge through cleansing.” Operation Sook Ching took place in Singapore from February 21 to March 4, 1942. It was a military operation carried out by the Japanese with the intent of ...
• Quantifying the Spatial Morphology of Organic Films through Polarization-dependent Imaging 

  Scott, Madelyn "Madi" Nicole (University of Oregon, 2020)

  Organic semiconducting materials are appealing, green alternatives to conventional semiconductors because they can be solution-processed into films. However, solution-processing fabrication methods can be prone to morphological ...
• Reinforcing Push Factors in the Northern Triangle: An Investigation of Trump’s Attempts to Deter Immigration through Humanitarian Aid Reduction 

  Scott, Caitlin Rose (University of Oregon, 2020)

  The Northern Triangle of Central America has long been a major source of immigration to the United States. In April of 2019, the Trump Administration announced its intentions to freeze U.S. foreign aid to El Salvador, ...

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