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The experiences of Latino immigrant students in an Oregon high school : identity, language, and interethnic relationships

Creator:: Hayden, Alyssa
Abstract:: For much of history, U.S. schools have employed ideologies of assimilation and nationhood - involving an exchange of immigrants' ways of life for a homogenous American identity - as frameworks for their curriculum and language education programs. However, a new ideology of multiculturalism has gained popularity in recent decades. Multicultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Fina Carpena-Mendez For much of history, U.S. schools have employed ideologies of

Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Bustamante, Stephanie
Abstract:: East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Fina Carpena-Méndez East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific

Everyday Religious Spiritualities: Navigating Inequalities Through Orientations, Interactions, and Reflexivity

Creator:: Lopez, Andres L.
Abstract:: The research and analysis presented in this dissertation illustrate how individuals enact lived religion as they seek to navigate social inequalities. The enactment of lived religion involves directing attention towards orientations. I use the term orientations in the sense articulated by Ahmed (2004), to allude to how bodies are situated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Fina Carpena-Mendez The research and analysis presented in this dissertation illustrate how

'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

Creator:: Hisey, Aimee
Abstract:: Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: would like to express my sincere appreciation to my graduate committee: Professors Fina Carpena-Mendez

Rural Hispanic-Serving Institutional Context on the Development of Hispanic-Serving Initiatives and Strategies

Creator:: Alvarado-Young, Kelly M.
Abstract:: The focus of this single-site case study was to explore how rural dispersed Hispanic-serving community colleges in the Pacific Northwest support the development of Hispanic-Serving initiatives and strategies. The conceptual frameworks of Latino critical theory and the multicultural organizational development model were used to analyze and interpret the data. Interviews...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Negotiating Social Identity within the Oregon State University Polo Club

Creator:: Hanna, Erika L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine how members of the Oregon State University polo team negotiate aspects of their social identity. Over the course of the 2011-2012 school year, 15 interviews and 30 hours of observations were conducted. From the data, five overarching themes were identified: inclusion as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee members, Dr. Elizabeth Root, Dr. Trischa Goodnow, Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez and Sara Jameson for

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Creator:: Opas, Matthew E.
Abstract:: Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT)use, specifically that of telephones and the Internet, impacts the lives of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy. Informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation were carried out in a 'center of second reception.' Results show that information obtained through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for his advice and guidance during my research. Thanks to Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez and Dr. Dwaine

Spatial and temporal variability of carbon dynamics in a tropical forest of Colombia

Creator:: Sierra, Carlos Alberto
Abstract:: Despite the importance of tropical forest ecosystems in the global carbon cycle, there have been few studies of carbon dynamics in this biome. The magnitude of carbon stocks in the tropics and their changes over time are poorly known since ground-based observations are lacking. In this study, total carbon stocks...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Mark E. Harmon Despite the importance of tropical forest ecosystems in

Bacterial community analysis, new exoelectrogen isolation and enhanced performance of microbial electrochemical systems using nano-decorated anodes

Creator:: Xu, Shoutao
Abstract:: Microbial electrochemical systems (MESs) have attracted much research attention in recent years due to their promising applications in renewable energy generation, bioremediation, and wastewater treatment. In a MES, microorganisms interact with electrodes via electrons, catalyzing oxidation and reduction reactions at the anode and the cathode. The bacterial community of a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Clare Reimers, and Dr. Mark Dolan. Due to their encouragement and insightful comments on my research

Regulation of NMDA-type glutamate receptors and MDR1 by two members of the EF-hand protein family

Creator:: Bajaj, Gaurav
Abstract:: EF-hand proteins are a conserved family of proteins that are modulated by divalent cations and regulate diverse cellular activities. In the present study we characterized the molecular determinants of myosin regulatory light chain (RLC) interaction with several subunits of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-type glutamate receptor. Myosin RLC is an EF-hand protein...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: studies. I would like to thank members of my graduate committee - Dr. Mark Leid, Dr. Theresa Filtz

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The experiences of Latino immigrant students in an Oregon high school : identity, language, and interethnic relationships

Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Everyday Religious Spiritualities: Navigating Inequalities Through Orientations, Interactions, and Reflexivity

'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

Rural Hispanic-Serving Institutional Context on the Development of Hispanic-Serving Initiatives and Strategies

Negotiating Social Identity within the Oregon State University Polo Club

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Spatial and temporal variability of carbon dynamics in a tropical forest of Colombia

Bacterial community analysis, new exoelectrogen isolation and enhanced performance of microbial electrochemical systems using nano-decorated anodes

Regulation of NMDA-type glutamate receptors and MDR1 by two members of the EF-hand protein family

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