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

Creator:: Blanchard, William D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: graces the OSU campus is of utmost importance. The only international program to help establish and

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: her may years of service is still present on Oregon State University’s campus. Milam Hall, the

Climate Changers: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reducing Personal Carbon Emissions

Creator:: Johnson, Carly A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1.1). The OSU participants represented approximately 90 departments on campus (80% of departments

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF J. Christopher Jolly for the

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Creator:: Lovestone, Lauren R.
Abstract:: During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF L.R. Lovestone for the degree of Master of Arts in History of Science

Student identity development abroad : Three students' stories

Creator:: Gutzler, Jill
Abstract:: This thesis explores the challenges and triumphs experienced by three students who spent the summer abroad on international internships. Through their individual stories and journals, they shared how they questioned their own values, their nationality, and the value of formal education. They also experienced changing relationships and new career aspirations...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Science in College Student Services Administration presented on April 28, 2004. Title: Student

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Creator:: Montañez, Morgan
Abstract:: The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: can also hold one back. For the middle and upper classes, their accumulation of capital means a

Talking back: voices from an empty house: the interior space of the Frantz-Dunn House as artifact

Creator:: Bryant, Kathleen J.
Abstract:: The 134-year old Frantz-Dunn House in Hoskins, Oregon is an intact, well-preserved example of rural Gothic architecture in the Willamette Valley. The old farmstead sits on a former Civil War Fort site and represents a link in the history of the region to the larger patterns of expansion in America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Master of Science in Design and Human Environment Presented on September 24. 2004. Title

Water chemistry of Oregon Cascade wilderness lakes : a comparison to 1985 data

Creator:: Logan, Michael Burke
Abstract:: The Western Lake Survey (WLS) of 1985 documented the status of lake water chemistry across the western US and inferred population representations of various subregions and geomorphic units via statistically analyses. Results from this 1985 study indicated that lakes of the Oregon Cascades had the second most pristine and dilute...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Water Chemistry of Oregon Cascade Wilderness Lakes: A Comparison to 1985 Data. Abstract

Neighborhood emergency networks in Uzhhorod, Ukraine and Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. : women's neighborhood network and Linn-Benton neighborhood emergency training

Creator:: Weidner, Naomi
Abstract:: This thesis examines two neighborhood emergency preparedness programs: the Linn-Benton Neighborhood Emergency Training (LB NET) program in Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A., and the Women's Neighborhood Networking Program (WNNP) in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. In Corvallis, the LB NET began in 1996, in part out of concerns that in a large disaster the local...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Arts in Applied Anthroolov presented on March 5. 2004. Title: Neighborhood Emergency Networks

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Climate Changers: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reducing Personal Carbon Emissions

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Student identity development abroad : Three students' stories

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Talking back: voices from an empty house: the interior space of the Frantz-Dunn House as artifact

Water chemistry of Oregon Cascade wilderness lakes : a comparison to 1985 data

Neighborhood emergency networks in Uzhhorod, Ukraine and Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. : women's neighborhood network and Linn-Benton neighborhood emergency training

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