• “The Plague Ship:” Examining the Arrival and Controversial Quarantine of the J.W. Taylor at The Port of New York in 1899 

  Tabor, Rowan (University of Oregon, 2017)

  As the late 19th century witnessed the third pandemic of bubonic plague in human history, early public health organizations were forced to combat the terrifying disease in a world being increasingly globalized by the Second ...

• Stop Comparing Nollywood to Hollywood: Reorienting Western Understanding of Nigerian Cinema 

  Schnell, Breanne (University of Oregon, 2017)

  Nigeria has the second largest film industry in the world with thousands of movies produced since the industry’s formation in the early 1990s. However, despite its massive success, Western discourses frequently use terms ...

• From Voluntary to Monitored: The Development of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna 

  Dorning, Sandra (University of Oregon, 2017)

  The nature of high seas fisheries as a common pool resource necessitates international agreements to regulate fishing behavior to preserve commercial fish stocks. The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin ...

• Affirming Actions, Fallacy of American Post Racial Society: Policy Analysis and Critique of United States Supreme Court Effect on Black Student Access To Higher Education 

  Gomalo, Kena (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Affirming actions, fallacy of American post racial society: Policy analysis and critique of United States Supreme Court effect on Black student access to higher education. Since the inception of the country that is now ...

• Economic Decision Making and Neural Correlates of Subjective Value in the Nematode Worm, Caenorhabditis elegans 

  Katzen, Abraham (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Decision making is pervasive in nature. Organisms from across the phylogenetic spectrum take in information from the external world and pursue courses of action in an attempt to maximize their evolutionary fitness. When ...

• Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Strontium for Spectroscopic Measurements of Casimir-Polder Potentials 

  Cook, Eryn (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Casimir and Casimir-Polder effects are forces between electrically neutral bodies and particles in vacuum, arising entirely from quantum fluctuations. The modification to the vacuum electromagnetic-field modes imposed by ...

• Properties of Sequent-Calculus-Based Languages 

  Johnson-Freyd, Philip (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Programmers don't just have to write programs, they are have to reason about them. Programming languages aren't just tools for instructing computers what to do, they are tools for reasoning. And, it isn't just programmers ...

• Sensorimotor Abnormalities in Chronic Subacromial Pain: The Influence of Sex, Contribution of Pain, and Utility of Using the Contralateral Limb as a Control 

  King, Jacqlyn (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Patients with subacromial pain syndrome (SPS) display a number of sensorimotor deficits including alterations in pain processing, poor proprioception, and weakness at the symptomatic limb. The primary purpose of this ...

• Ends And Beginnings: A Cycle of Symphonic Tango Songs 

  Bradley, Damien (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  This piece is an exploration of tango music. Having played, arranged, composed, and performed this music since 2011, I consider myself steeped and well-versed in the culture and musical language of tango, and this piece ...

• Mapping topological magnetization and magnetic skyrmions 

  Chess, Jordan (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  A 2014 study by the US Department of Energy conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that U.S. data centers consumed 70 billion kWh of electricity[1]. This represents about 1.8% of the total U.S. ...

• Fais de Beaux Rêves 

  Korzeniewski, Emily (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Fais de Beaux Rêves is a single-movement atonal string quartet for a duration of approximately 17 minutes. My inspiration for this piece came from my language immersion experience in the French School at Middlebury College. ...

• Restorative Justice in Cases of Sexual Misconduct at the University of Oregon: Risks, Rewards, and Challenges 

  Hager, Zane (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  The present research seeks to identify the risks, rewards and challenges associated with hypothetical restorative justice based responses to sexual misconduct at the University of Oregon. Prior to this project here was ...

• Close-Spaced Vapor Transport for III-V Solar Absorbing Devices 

  Greenaway, Ann (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Capture of the energy in sunlight relies mainly on the use of light-absorbing semiconductors, in solar cells and in water-splitting devices. While solar cell efficiency has increased dramatically since the first practical ...

• Blood Flow Through Intrapulmonary Arteriovenous Anastomoses: Reconciliation of Inconsistent Data Obtained in Hypobaria and Body Position Studies 

  Petrassi, Frank (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses (IPAVA) are vascular conduits through which blood flow bypasses the pulmonary circulation, and does not participate in pulmonary gas exchange. Blood flow through IPAVA (QIPAVA) is ...

• Frames and Monkeywrenching the Media in Côte d’Ivoire: How to Win a War in Françafrique 

  Lemke, Jeslyn (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  This study revisits the media coverage of Côte d’Ivoire’s 2010-2011 electoral crisis as a case study of the political, economic, and contextual stressors that impact journalists writing in francophone Africa in times of ...

• Swimming Kinematics and Thoracic Appendage Morphology in Cyprids of Balanus glandula 

  Lamont, Eleanor (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  As the final larval stage before settlement, barnacle cyprids swim with six pairs of thoracic appendages used to maintain orientation, change direction, and swim against downwelling currents. This thesis examines thoracic ...

• Analysis of an Exposed Portion of the Badwater Turtleback Shear-zone, Death Valley, California, USA 

  Jarrett, Corey (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  The exposed shear zone within the footwall of the Badwater turtleback presents an excellent opportunity to explore the brittle-ductile transition. Within this shear zone, a variety of lithologies preserve the last stages ...

• RING AROUND THE ROSIE: QUEER TEMPORALITY IN NARRATIVES OF TRAUMA 

  Muhic, Dina (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  This dissertation employs both traditional and digital tools to analyze fictional texts through the converging lenses of narratology, queer theory, and trauma studies. I am invested specifically in the work fictional ...

• CONTROLLING THE CHARGE DENSITY WAVE IN VSE2 CONTAINING HETEROSTRUCTURES 

  Hite, Omar (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Exploring the properties of layered materials as a function of thickness has largely been limited to semiconducting materials as thin layers of metallic materials tend to oxidize readily in atmosphere. This makes it ...

• The Evolution of Metal and Peptide Binding in the S100 Protein Family 

  Wheeler, Lucas (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Proteins perform an incredible array of functions facilitated by a diverse set of biochemical properties. Changing these properties is an essential molecular mechanism of evolutionary change, with major questions in ...

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