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  • 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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    course relating the discoveries of science to their impact on technology and on society (Yeats, 2003

  • 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

  • Online classes : the student experience

    Creator:
    Bucy, Mary C.
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    Online courses and even degree programs are becoming a widespread phenomenon at universities across the United States. Research into the effectiveness of these courses is in the early stages. This qualitative study explored student perceptions of their online class experience using expectancy-value theory as a framework in an attempt to...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented on February 28, 2003. Title: Online Classes: The

  • 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

  • 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

  • Voices within a gray world : an evaluation of Oregon State University's sexual and dating violence prevention curriculum

    Creator:
    McClure, Stephanie L.
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    With the reauthorization of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act all Title IV higher education institutions will now be required to provide "primary prevention and awareness programs for all incoming students." Yet, more research is needed to find prevention programs that are effective (White House Task Force to Protect Students...
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    we could continually improve and modify our curriculum here at OSU to better meet the needs of OSU

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on May 30, 2003. Title: Thresholds of

  • Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

    Creator:
    Sprague, Allen
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    The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
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    project with INTO OSU supports the continued growth and development of service-learning on a campus

  • 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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    , & Walkerdine 2003). In addition to the general changes, the ratio of women to men in the on-campus

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    Nye, for giving me this chance of a lifetime to study History of Science at OSU with her and in the