2020
One-Child Policy Propaganda: An Analysis of How Chinese Propaganda Depicts and Reconstructs Female Identity, Akemi Alden (Student Project)
Crystalized Politics: An Analysis of Personal and Political Identity, Nicholas Bartels (Student Project)
What themes emerge in narratives for participants of Air Force ROTC programs? Are there shared incentives to join this organization?, Shafalika Byrd (Student Project)
Enforcement and Emancipation: Engagement of Gender in Narratives of College Students, Sophie Downing (Student Project)
Battling Yellow Fever: An Analysis of How Fetishized Bodies Manage Identity, Calley Estocapio (Student Project)
Too Influential or Too Inadequate? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Environmental Advertising, Autumn Fluetsch (Student Project)
Co-Constructing Identity During Stressful Processes: How Identity is Co-Constructed During Tenure, Brendan Foley (Student Project)
The Underestimated Power of a Euphemism, Jake Heimbigner (Student Project)
Roped into Intimacy, Clare Kessi (Student Project)
Keeping Score: How Heteronormative Language in Professional Sports Shape the Identities of Student Athletes, Janine Rook (Student Project)
2019
Juul Advertisement and its Large Appeal, Jeffrey Braccia (Student Project)
Toxic Masculinity and Super Bowl Advertising, Paul Doan (Student Project)
10 Steps to Break Barriers and Build Connections: Considering Feminist Aware/Feminist Unaware Interactions as Intercultural, Kelly Doran (Student Project)
Photographing “Total Chaos”: A Visual Analysis of the New York Times’ Coverage of Mass Shootings, Hannah Sievert (Student Project)
The NCAA’s Optical and Philosophical Problem, Dane Swanson (Student Project)
Visualizing Microaggressions in Primetime Television, Chloe Tanega (Student Project)
2018
Bringing Down the Oligarchy: Change-Making on Campus, Lydia Joy Beagle (Student Project)
Designing and Justifying a Training Guide for Coaching in Intercultural Contexts, Tate A. Budnick (Student Project)
Balancing Social Responsibility and Employee Experience in B-Corporations, Emma Finnigan (Student Project)
Self-Training Tool for Entering Multicultural Work Environments: A “How Not to Offend Your Co-Worker” Guide, Danielle Garcia (Student Project)
Creating Intercultural Competency: Justification and Design of a Church Leader Intercultural Encounter Workshop, Ryan Patrick Hoogerwerf (Student Project)
Cultural Sensitivity Training in the U. S. Military: Is There Enough of the Right Stuff?, Phillip T. Lavoie (Student Project)
Cultural Change and Differences on Accepting Help: Understanding how Cultures View and Accept Help Due to Differences and Change, Camden L. Muller (Student Project)
Communicating Support: Applying Communication Theory To Assess and Improve Disclosure Encounters with Sexual Assault Survivors, Abigale R. Sherman (Student Project)
The Loudest Voices in the Room: Understanding Student Government Advocacy During a Tense Political Climate, Kaity Sullivan (Student Project)
Role of Flashbacks in Relationship Depiction in This is Us, Kelsey Zuberbuehler (Student Project)
2017
The 1 percent: Being Black on The Bluff, Ben Arthur (Student Project)
Building Intercultural Competency: Justifying and Designing a Refugee Educator Self‐Training Guide, Emily K. Peters (Student Project)
The Belmont Goats and Portland Gentrification: Why We Should Care, Shelby Vaculin (Student Project)
2016
College-aged ageism: A study of the perceptions and discourse surrounding the aging process, Teresa Connolly (Student Project)
Study Abroad Housing and Cultural Intelligence: Does Housing Influence the Gaining of Cultural Intelligence?, Kara Ghorbani-Elizeh (Student Project)
Self-Disclosure of Sexual History: An Analysis of College Students’ Sexual Health Communication with Intimate Partners, Adele F. Lies (Student Project)
How People Handle Intercultural Conflict via Social Media vs. in Person, Alma D. Rios-Rodriguez (Student Project)
2014
The Effect of Affectionate Communication on Relational Closeness in the Emerging Adult Sibling Relationship, Rebecca Bell (Student Project)
Power in Transit: Examining the Social Construction of Power in Relation to the Perceptions, Interactions, and Spatial Behavior of Passengers on Public Buses, Sierra Bray (Student Project)
Plugged into work media: Impacts of work media on IT employees, Anna Bubnova (Student Project)
Envisioning Life After College: Constructing College Students’ Expectations of the Work World, Tess C. Burick (Student Project)
Expressing the acceptance of cultures through Luau, Michael Carbonell (Student Project)
Seeking New Horizons: The Motivation Behind Volunteers Serving Overseas, Bethany Codding (Student Project)
Resistance Narratives in Documentaries: A Narrative Rhetorical Analysis on GMO OMG, Elizabeth A. Hjort (Student Project)
Cash Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M): The Balancing Act of Competition and Revenue in a Collegiate Athletic Department, Stephen Kersh (Student Project)
ALOL (Actually Laughing Out Loud): A study of technology and face-to-face communication, Anne Lange-Klisch (Student Project)
Social Media by Generation: A study of generational differences and their use of social media in a public relations firm, Alyssa Lonsberry (Student Project)
Who Bosses Whom: A Comparison of Conflict Management Styles among University Undergraduates in Different Professional Disciplines, Nicola Plate (Student Project)
Do Racial Perceptions Affect Communication in Conflict?, Tanner Riley (Student Project)
“Trapped”: How Mainstream Hip-hop Affects the Post-Incarceration Reentry Process, Tadeu Velloso (Student Project)
Gender Stereotypes in Television Advertising During Super Bowl XLVIII and the Sochi Winter Olympics, Natalie Vierra (Student Project)
Family Businesses: An In-Depth Look at Communicative Strategies Used by Firms to Implement a Shared Value System within the Work Environment, Megan Walsh (Student Project)
2013
Stress Alleviation, Talk Types, and Self Perceptions on the Front and Backstage, Andrea N. Jackle (Student Project)
2012
Sprechen sie...What? Anxiety/Uncertainty Management in a German American School, Katy Caldwell (Student Project)
Perception Of Coaching Behavior And Its Impact On Taking Conflict Personally, Sabine Fuchs (Student Project)
Collegiate Athletes’ Family Communication Styles And Their Preferred Coaching Styles, Benjamin Hemphill (Student Project)
Reported Impacts of Coaches’ Facework on Motivation and Credibility, Geoffrey W. Hernandez (Student Project)
Emotions in Sport: The Effect of Conflict on Collegiate Athlete’s Emotional Contagion, Self-efficacy, and Cohesion, Valeska Hoath (Student Project)
Role Ambiguity and Team Cohesion in Division One Athletes, Kendall E. Johnson (Student Project)
Ready or Not, We're Here! A Naturalistic Study of Millennials in International Student Advising, Krista M. Kennedy (Student Project)
How Culture Influences Our Expectations of Others, Tanner Kriskovich (Student Project)
The Effects of Parental Separation and Divorce on Closeness in the Adult Sibling Relationship, Rachelle Leduc (Student Project)
Navigating Sarcasm as one Key to American Belonging: A Study of the Value of Sarcasm in America, PJ Marcello (Student Project)
How to be a Cosmo Girl: Seeking Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions in Cosmopolitan Magazine International Editions, Jamie Marsella (Student Project)
Interability Communication Involves More than Just Motivation, Mary Dolan O'Brien (Student Project)
The Impact of Dual-Career Marriage on Role Conflict and Marital Satisfaction, Tyler J. Ochsner (Student Project)
Emotional Support Skills through Adaptive Code Switching in der Deutsche Amerikanischen Schule, Jamie Opra (Student Project)
The Relationship Between Family Communication Patterns and an Individual’s Emotional Intelligence, Priscilla Osredkar (Student Project)
To Be a Homeless Man in Portland An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding their Experience of Prejudice, Hannah Schultz (Student Project)
Unresolved Conflict: What Gives?, Jonathan Squires (Student Project)
Intergroup Anxiety, Ethnocentrism, and Willingness to Communicate with Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Marit Tegelaar (Student Project)
The Smart Phone as a Conflicting Third Party in Interpersonal Relationships, Elizabeth Tertadian (Student Project)
Mulling Over Long Distance Conflict, Hilary M. White (Student Project)
2010
Understanding Behavior of Neglected Children: A Case Study, Katy Canavan (Student Project)
A Place to Sleep and Food: A Proposal for Goose Hollow Shelter, Laiken Dollente (Student Project)
Does Family Communication Impact Cultural Identity?, Natalie Dube (Student Project)
Reactions without a Baguette in the Face: Intercultural Persuasion involving French People, Jaclyn Gallagher (Student Project)
‘Sit Down and Eat! Rule-making and breaking at mealtime,’ An Ethnographic Study of One Family, Christa Haluck (Student Project)
Practicing Acculturation and Conflict Management with Ethnic Minorities: A Proposal for the Praise and Improvement of New Columbia, Jocelyn Sterling (Student Project)
2009
‘Tips’ to Affirming Cultural Identity through Communication, Katie M. Beaubien (Student Project)
The Beat Goes On: Music Downloading More Prevalent Than Ever Despite Prosecutions, Lacey Bitter (Student Project)
Brand Identity Through the University of Portland’s Promotional Literature, Carolyn Blumenson (Student Project)
Talking About Race: Comfort Levels of Racial Groups in Dialogue, Jovelyn V. Bonilla (Student Project)
Effects of Loneliness and Satisfaction through CMC, Dino Bozzone (Student Project)
Can We Really Talk about Race? Creating Intergroup Dialogue at Celebration Tabernacle, Mary Burchett (Student Project)
The Depiction of Status Through Nonverbal Behavior in Mad Men, Tiffany Candelaria (Student Project)
Using Communication to Build and Retain a Strong Volunteer Base, Chelsea Dibala (Student Project)
The Constitutionality of the City of Portland’s Residential Sign Statute, Kelly S. Forbes (Student Project)
Celebrating Race in the Classroom: Utilizing Multicultural Education and Intergroup Contact to Combact Racial Threat in the Classroom, Dustin Grote (Student Project)
Building the American Dream: Skyscrapers and Advertising in the 1920s, Christine C. Hanson (Student Project)
Like Looking into a Mirror: The Analysis of Doxicon in Visual Metaphor Advertisements, Brianne Preza Haynes (Student Project)
Visualize Realize: A Study on Visual Metaphors in Health and Beauty Magazine Ads, Kelsey C. Hood (Student Project)
Building a Culturally Sensitive Teen Parenting Program, Jane Ihrke (Student Project)
Testing Religiosity’s Impacts on Willingness to Communicate With Sexual Minority Members, Jenna L. H. Isakson (Student Project)
Mapping Metaphors: A Rhetorical Visual Metaphor Analysis, Adrienne M. Jarvis (Student Project)
Star Tracks: Celebrity Values in People Magazine, Jordan Kees (Student Project)
Look Who's Searching Now: Impression Management and College Students Awareness About Employers Viewing Facebook Content, Jessica M. Kolkmeyer (Student Project)
Expression of Hospice Culture at Volunteer Training, Meghan Letters (Student Project)
Organizational Change in All God’s Children International Adoption Agency: Improving the Decision‐Making Process, Nicole Nadal (Student Project)
Training for Cross‐Cultural Interactions with Children, Julianne Opra (Student Project)
The Impact of Stereotype Threat on the Academic Performance of International Students Studying in the United States, Michael Pelley (Student Project)
Attributions in Organizational and Social E-mail Messages, Leah Pentelnik (Student Project)
Cultural Identification: Voting Behavior and Ethnocentric Tendencies, Whitney Piper (Student Project)
Improving Volunteer Organizational Success Through Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change, Brennan Thorpe (Student Project)