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Quickening nature's pulse: atomic agriculture at the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Hamblin, Jacob Darwin

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Mutation breeders in the 1960s seemed poised to use atomic energy to speed up mutation rates in plants in order to develop new crop varieties, for the benefit of all people. Although skepticism had slowed this work in the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nurtured the scientific...

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as well. Curry, Helen Anne. Making marigolds: colchicine, mutation breeding, and ornamental
Creation of an Initial Course and Curriculum Overview for a Positive Youth Development Certificate

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Pugh, Kiley M.

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Positive Youth Development (PYD) is both a set of outcomes and a program model that serves to support youth in building healthy relationships with adults and developing the strengths necessary for healthy adulthood. It centers around the 5 C’s of compassion, character, competence, confidence, and connection, which lead to a...

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Honors College Thesis
Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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Bruno, Mark P.

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This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....

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Masters Thesis

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. I thank my parents, Mark and Helen Bruno, for a lifetime of support and concern on my behalf. Though