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2008-2009

October 9

Hunting: Representing the Gun Culture of the American West
Kerry Loewen

October 23

Digging Fossils at the Always Welcome Inn
Jay Van Tassell

October 30

Elluminate for Web Conferencing
David Komito and Jeff Johnson

November 13

Maternal Instincts: Portraits of Women in Oregon and Mexico
Jessica Plattner

January 8

Starting from Scratch: How to Produce and Direct an Off Off Broadway Show
Ken Bush

January 22

Travelling to Machu Picchu: Pre-Colombian Cultures in Peru Report on NEH Summer Institute, Summer 2008
Barbara Schulz

February 12

The King and the Parasite: Namibia, My Last Fulbright
Gerry Ramey

February 26

Motivation at the Middle School Level
Karyn Gomez

March 12

Utilization of Students’ Narratives in Assessing Developmental Levels of Learning: Results of 3 Years of Observation
Lee Sellers and Ted Takamura

April 9

Seeing Buenos Aires through the Lens of Tango: Two Weeks at the Academia Nacional de Tango
Matt Cooper, Jill Gibian and Sharon Porter

April 23

What’s For Dinner Tonight?
Linda Jerofke

May 14

Whither State Lotteries?
Jeff Dense

May 28

Essays on the End of the World: Creative & Philosophical Inquiry into Apocalyptic Preoccupation
Zachary Walter


2009-2010

October 8

Point of Purchase Perceptions: Selling Products With Place
Marian Mustoe

October 22

Teaching in a Nonviolent Environment
Kari Day

November 12

In the Nomad’s Wake: Teaching My Way Around the World by Invitation and Trespass for Semester at Sea
Mark Shadle

January 14

The Play is the Thing: The Plays that Theatre Educators use to Teach Design
Mike Heather

January 28

Computational Chemistry for National Defense, Renewable Energy, and Advanced Materials
Jeff Woodford

February 11

My Dad Has a Barn, Let’s Put On a Show! The Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Summer Theatre Program
Kenn Wheeler

February 25

I Think I Can; I Know I Can. Transitioning from Student to Teacher
Karyn Gomez and Allen Evans

April 8

The Mysteries of Poetic Inquiry: The Recondite Processes of Poetry Composition Revealed for All!
Donald Wolff

April 22

Collaboration Across Counties: Supporting Rural Teachers
Jan Dinsmore and Kerri Wenger

May 13

Paying Farmers for Clean Water: A Market Approach to Water Quality
Peter Maille

May 27

Effect of Seat Height on Cycling Efficiency
Brian Sather and Darren Dutto


2010-2011

October 14, 2010

Expanding EOU’s Weltanschuung Through International Exchanges: Summer 2010 in Germany
Regina Braker

October 28, 2010

Childhood Redux: Maintaining Balance and Mobility as We Age
Darren Dutto

November 11, 2010

‘The Gloves Are Coming Off Gentlemen’: Toward a Critical Discourse Analysis of the Bush Administration’s Torture Memos
Dani Weber

January 13, 2011

Plug In to Your Library
David Drexler

January 27, 2011

Immigrant Labor, American Progress: Constructing and Celebrating Canals, Railroads, and Manhood in the Nineteenth-Century West
Ryan Dearinger

February 10, 2011

The Fictional Meme: The Art of Michael Sell
Michael Sell

February 24, 2011

Religion as a Natural Kind: The Biological and Semantic Search for a Definition
Jeff Johnson

April 14, 2011

Got Ukulele? Using the Ukulele as a Teaching Tool in Music Education
Sharon Porter

April 28, 2011

Lost in Translation: Approaches to the Challenges of Cross Cultural Teaching and Learning
Susan Whitelock

May 12, 2011

Raising Awareness of Diversity in Children’s Picture Books: A Content Analysis of 21st Century Caldecott Winners and Honor Books
Karyn Gomez and LeeAnn McNerney

May 26, 2011

Teaching Online with Streaming Media: Why Can’t We Do More of This at EOU?
Karen Clay and Ken Watson


2011-2012

October 13

Ice Age Fossils from the Airport Lane Site, La Grande, NE Oregon
Jay Van Tassell

October 27

Feeling Techie? Using Instructional Technology in the Classroom
Tawnya Lubbes & Scott Smith

November 10

Lager, Labels and the 44th Parallel
Marian Mustoe

January 12

Seeing Beneath the Soil: The Use of Non-invasive Remote Sensing Techniques in Archaeology
Rory Becker

January 26

Civic Engagement and Distance Education
Jeff Dense

February 9

Motivation: “It’s not that they can’t do it, it’s that they don’t wish to!
John Knudson-Martin & Shari Carpenter

February 23

Environmental Chemistry: From Humic Acids to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Jeremy Riggle

April 12

Video Games and Cognitive Rehabilitation? Madness and Teaching in the 21st Century
Meg Cooke

April 26

Student Learning Across Disciplines Using Both Sides of the Brain
Ted Takamura & Lee Sellers

May 10

Novel Chemical Routes to Nanostructured Thin Film Compounds
Colby Heideman


2012-2013

October 11

Explorations in 20th Century Latin American Art
Barbara Schulz

October 25

Evaluating and Assessing Adult Student Learning Outcomes: A Quantitative Methodology
Gary Keller

November 8

When the Lines You See are Crow’s Feet: Self-Efficacy in Tutoring Nontraditional Student Writers
Donna Evans

January 10

Physical Activity Levels Among Children Attending Family Child Care Homes
Kelly Rice

January 24

People of the Soil: Imperial Education, Ethnology, and Social Engineering in Colonial British Malaya 1900-1939
Matthew Schauer

February 14

Professors, Programmers, and Anarchists; We All Market!
Mark Platts & Shari Carpenter

March 14

Integrating Media Naturalness Theory and the SIDE Model: Exploring the Influence of Media Characteristics on Social Cognition and Group Dynamics in Computer-Mediated Interaction
Michael Santucci

April 11

The Natural Dyeing Method of the Zapotec of Mexico
Heather Tomlinson

April 25

How “Messing Around” Informs Problem-Solving: Inside the Minds of Engineers
Carol Lauritzen

May 9

Say What? Anagrams, Science, and the Renaissance
Nicole Howard

May 23

Student Learning Across Disciplines: Using Both Sides of the Brain
Ted Takamura



2014-2015

October 9, 2014

The Strange Change in the Course of the Wallowa River
Dr. Jay VanTassel

October 23, 2014

Googledom, Twitterland, and Planet MOOC: Sociological Adventures in the Worlds of Web 2.0
Dr. Rosemary Powers

November 13, 2014

A Quantitative Study of a Faculty Member’s Role in Changing Writing Outcomes of Undergraduate Capstone Papers
Dr. Gary Keller

January 8, 2015

Teaching Students to Fail: Negative Consequences of Negative Feedback
Dr. Peter Maille

January 22, 2015

Assimilation: A Story of the Early Tribal Reservation Period of Oregon
Linda Jerofke

February 12, 2015

The Homunculus and Pressley, Montana
Michael Sell

February 26, 2015

Moving Towards Inclusion: A Discussion of Technology Issues Faced by Visually Impaired Students
Laura Gow-Hogge

March 12, 2015

Visual Literacy in Pre-Service Teacher Preparation
Dr. Teresa A. Farrell

April 9th, 2015

Responding to the Rural Opportunity Gap through Partnership Initiatives Centered in Culturally Responsive Practices
Tawnya L. Lubbes

April 23, 2015

The Terrorism Label: Propaganda and the U.S. – Contra War
Phil Travis

May 14, 2015

A Vision of Collaboration: How EOU Serves and Can Serve the Community
Steve Clements

May 28, 2016

Democracy on Junk Food: Processed News and the Body Politic
Bill Grigsby


2015-2016

October 22, 2015

Now More Than Ever: The Necessity of Service-Learning in Higher Education in the Age of Common Core Standards
Michael O’Connor, Ph.D.

January 28, 2016

Teach Like a Learner: Online Instruction with the Learners in Mind
Amanda Villagómez, Ed.D

February 11, 2016

Camp Carson: A Snapshot of Gold Mining in Eastern Oregon
Linda Jerofke

February 25, 2016

When to Choose: Some Mathematical Models for Optimal Stopping
Stephen Tanner

March 10, 2016

Your Eye Will Be My Window: Shrines, History, and Invisibility
Jodi Varon

April 28, 2016

Tech Tools for 21st Century Learning: Collaborative Environments, Visual Instructions, & Infographics
Teresa Farrell

May 12, 2016

Effective Methods for Motivating Students to Complete Assigned Readings
Rae Ette Newman, Ph.D. & Ronda Fritz, MA

May 26, 2016

In Person or Online? A Comparison of Literacy Instruction Methods
Liz Becker


2016-2017

March 16, 2017

A Predator’s Role in the Ecosystem
Donna Rainboth

February 23, 2017

Behavior of Drongos in Mixed Foraging Flocks In Southern India
Laura Mahrt

February 9, 2017

Four Years of Living Dangerously: The Eastern Promise Language Arts PLC
Nancy Knowles

January 26, 2017

Tracking the Northern Sorrow Monkey Notes From a Year-Long Expedition
David Axelrod

January 12, 2017

A Snapshot of Children’s Mental Health Services in Umatilla County
Bill Grigsby

November 10, 2016

Get Outside After School Activity Results
Kelly Rice

October 27, 2016

Forgetting to Remember: Irish Commemoration of World War I
Mandy Link, PhD.

October 13, 2016

Power, House-Money, and Expected Value: Economics Professor Explores Why Leaders Make Such Bad Decisions
Peter Maille


2017-2018

October 12, 2017

Archaeology Without Holes
Rory Becker

October 26, 2017

Prejudice Towards Religion
Robert Butler

November 9, 2017

Information Literacy Competency of Incoming Freshmen
Sarah Ralston

February 8, 2018

Gallery Talk
Susan Murrell

February 22, 2018

Market-Based Innovation for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Wilson Zehr

March 8, 2018

Micronesian Student’s Guide to Navigating American Colleges
Susan Whitelock

April 12, 2018

Natural Mechanisms of Behavior
Shaun Cain

April 26, 2018

Developing and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum by Addressing Problems Relevant to the Local Community
Anna Cavinato

May 17, 2018

The Making of a Musical
Mike Heather

May 24, 2018

Trails of the Western Eagle Cap Wilderness
Brian Sather


2018-2019

October 11, 2018

Creating an Adaptable Research Program
Kyle Pfaffenbach

October 25, 2018

Reconsidering Europe’s Islamic Past
Kathryn Grow Allen

January 10, 2019

A Bird in the Hand
Laura Mahrt

January 24, 2019

Finger Dancing on the Ivory Keys
Darren Dutto

February 28, 2019

The Impact of CAPSI on Distance Learners
Chris Blair, Robert Butler, and Rae Ette Newman

April 11, 2019

The Eclipse I Call Father
David Axelrod

April 25, 2019

Secrets to Energizing/Sustaining Your Academic Presentation and Publishing Goals for Tenure or Promotion
Gary Keller and Linda Jerofke

May 30, 2019

How Do Animals Learn
Shaun Cain


2019-2020

October 24, 2019

When Democracy Increases Inequality
Peter Maille

November 14, 2019

Centering Community Needs in Food Systems Planning
Linda Jerofke & Jennifer Puentes

January 16, 2020

The Impact of Pre-College Characteristics, College Experience, & Study Abroad on Students’ Intercultural Competence
Michael Fields

January 31, 2020

The Mental Preparation of High Altitude Mountain Climbers
Kelly Rice-McNeil

February 13, 2020

Investigating Human-Neanderthal Contact in the Northern Adriatic Region
Rory Becker

February 27, 2020

Investigation of Item Property Effects on Polytomous Items Using the Many-Facet Rasch Model
Jerred Jolin

March 12, 2020

International Field Experience as a Pathway to Cultural Responsiveness for Teacher Candidates: Lessons Learned
Karyn Gomez and Ronda Fritz

April 23, 2020

The effect of instruction on leg joint kinetics during simple ballet movements.
Darren Dutto

May 12, 2020

An empirical examination of formal and informal institutional factors’ influence on global food industry sustainability engagement
Kat Yomamoto

May 28, 2020

Primate Pandemonium: Wild Macaque Management in Rural Japan
Calvin Edwards


2020-2021

November 12, 2020

Innovation and Market Leadership in a Technology Industry
Wilson Zehr

December 10, 2020

Overcoming the Divide: Human Rights and the Splits between Left and Right
Ben Dorfman

January 14, 2021

Effect of Red Bull Energy Drink on Lower Limb Strength and Fatigue in College Football Players
Kyle Pfaffenbach

February 11, 2021

Beer’s Dirty Work: Native, Immigrant, and American Hop-Pickers in the Pacific Northwest
Ryan Dearinger

February 25, 2021

Short-Term Study Abroad Impacts on Intercultural Competencies of Undergraduate Business Students
Laura Gow-Hogge

March 11, 2021

The Advances and Conundrums in the Understanding of Magnetic Field Detection in Animals
Shaun Cain

April 8, 2021

Physiologic Performance Tracking in Wildland Firefighters
Kyle Pfaffenbach

April 22, 2021

What’s your sign? Decoding hand gesture in piano performance based on movement kinematics
Darren Dutto

May 13, 2021

If water had its way
Susan Murrell


2021-2022

October 28, 2021

Examining if Grade Bias Exists in a Professor of Business Courses: An Individual Study
Gary Keller

December 9, 2021

Performance Variability & Expressivity “Norms” in Great Pianists Performing Selections from Bach’s WTC, Book I: Preliminary Study
Darren Dutto

January 13, 2022

Attention to Minimal Groups
Heidi Blocker

February 10, 2022

A Pilot-Study of Participant Experiences in State-Funded Programs for Educators that Dismantle Barriers and Reimagine Pathways to, and Create Structural Change in the Teacher Workforce
Jerred Jolin, Karyn Gomez, Tawnya Lubbes, Jennifer Slinkard

March 10, 2022

Building a Regional Reading Clinic
Ronda Fritz

May 12, 2022

Advocacy Coalitions in the Twittersphere
Daniel Costie

May 26, 2022

Development of microfluidic devices for bacterial detection and environmental monitoring
Anna Cavinato





2025-2026

October 9, 2025

Reactive or Proactive: Mitigating Stress and Anxiety Among College Health Profession Students
Alysia Cohen

November 13, 2025

Yoga Fetish and Popular American Culture
Nancy Knowles

December 11, 2025

My students tend not to be readers: Using General Education Audits to Understand Academic Literacy Expectations at EOU
Jennifer Slinkard and James Dyer

January 8, 2026

Following the Feathers: Molt, Migration, and Aging Across the Americas
Laura Mahrt

February 19, 2026

Capturing the Collaborative Spirit: Improving Intergovernmental Relations and Assessing Spill-over Effects
Daniel Paul Costie

March 12, 2026

Working with resistance in a linguistically diverse classroom
James Dyer

April 9, 2026

Sagrada familia (2022-2023): the right to have children?
Sandra Nava Nieto

May 14, 2026

Moral/Political Rationalism as The Basis for a Just Political Order

John Lundy