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  • Developing Tools to Utilize the Oregon State University Woody Plant Collection and Establish a Campus Arboretum

    Creator:
    Blanchard, William D.
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    Oregon State University campus grounds have long been admired for their beauty and the diversity of over 65,000 individual woody plants that grace the 570 acres of campus. The woody plant collection has provided a living learning laboratory for the university and surrounding community for decades. The campus grounds include...
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    graces the OSU campus is of utmost importance. The only international program to help establish and

  • Living with earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Yeats, Robert S.
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    In this expanded new edition of Living with Earthquakes, Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquakes in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a great earthquake fault which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California. New research...
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    notes written for this course served as the nucleus of this book, a text for future classes. In 1998

  • Land-use planning in Oregon : a no-nonsense handbook in plain English

    Creator:
    Rohse, Mitch, 1943-
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    Oregon has the most extensive land-use planning program of any state in this country. Every acre of privately owned land in this state is zoned. Every acre is subject to a comprehensive plan. Planning affects the cost of your home, the distance you drive to work or shop, your property...
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    Mitch Rohse eup' Oregon State University Press Corvallis, Oregon The paper in this book meets the

  • More than a term : a consideration of how to support generation 1.5 students at colleges and universities

    Creator:
    Wimberly, Elizabeth Summer
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    In this thesis, Elizabeth Summer Wimberly details the profile of generation 1.5 students as a group of students who can need extra support in higher education. Generation 1.5 students stand distinct from both international students and native, monolingual students. As such, placing generation 1.5 students in either a mainstream or...
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    Elizabeth Summer Wimberly for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on June 12, 2014

  • Understanding health behavior influences of undergraduate students during college transition

    Creator:
    Hart, Kerry A.
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    As college students transition to life away from their parental home, the need to make independent decisions regarding their eating and exercise behaviors is evident. This life transition may be a critical period for establishment of long term behavior patterns with potential impact on health, disease and weight balance. This...
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    degree of Master of Science in Nutrition presented on September 15, 2009. Title: Understanding Health

  • A blank screen? : digital divide discourses and practices

    Creator:
    Powell, Jasmine
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    The existence of a “digital divide,” or inequalities of access to digital technologies among different American subpopulations, has been hotly debated and contested since the National Telecommunications and Information Administration first popularized the phrase in 1995. The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the dominant discourses around the...
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    Presented June 3, 2009 Commencement June 2010 Master of Arts thesis of Jasmine Powell Presented on

  • Climate Changers: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reducing Personal Carbon Emissions

    Creator:
    Johnson, Carly A.
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    In an era of human-induced climate change, there is increasing interest in encouraging people to reduce their carbon dioxide (carbon) emissions by adopting low-carbon behaviors, or behaviors that reduce a person’s use of fossil fuels. I designed the Campus Carbon Challenge as a research and outreach project to gain a...
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    1.1). The OSU participants represented approximately 90 departments on campus (80% of departments

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    of Science on April 3, 2009. Title: John Archibald Wheeler: A Study of Mentoring in Modern Physics

  • Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Nelson, Rachel C.
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    The decision to attend a university creates many important decisions for a young adult, with one of the most important being the choice of where to live while they make the transition into independent adults. Many choose to live on campus during this critical time. The differences that exist, and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    degrees and more than 80 graduate degrees. OSU boasts of a 400-acre campus and beautiful architecture

  • Breaking Down Blackout: Building Understanding of Media Effects at OSU

    Creator:
    Dillard, Lauren L.
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    In the days following Oct. 5, 2007, the staff of The Daily Barometer - the student newspaper at Oregon State University - was left scrambling for understanding. The paper published a image of a man wearing black face paint for an event called "Blackout Reser." That black face paint looked...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    , 2009. Title: Breaking Down Blackout: Building Understanding of Media Effects at OSU Abstract