• An Equity Analysis of Bicycle Infrastructure Around Light Rail Stations in Seattle, WA 

  Osmonson, Bryanna Lynn

  This thesis explores whether there is any relationship between an area’s equity variables – the proportion of a Census Block Group population that is a racial minority, below the federal poverty line, under the age of 18, ...

• Analyzing Measurements of Housing Affordability 

  Cai, Zi

  Measuring housing affordability is a key challenge for most communities. Traditionally, the 30 percent rent-income ratio has been the cornerstone of housing affordability policies. Recently, however, a number of researchers ...

• Seattle Neighborhood Greenway Evaluation 

  Miller, Joel Matsuo

  Seattle’s neighborhood greenways are calm, non-arterial streets that are prioritized for people walking and biking. Using traffic-calming and pedestrian and bicycle friendly design elements, they provide safe and pleasant ...

• A Roadmap to Better Agency Planning: A Case Study in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office Division of Facilities Pilot Project 

  Langley, Mathew Ian

  In Spring of 2016, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Great Plains Regional Office Division of Facilities (GPRO DoF) initiated a pilot project to develop a facilities master plan with an agency location. The intent was ...

• What Makes People Feel at Home? Reframing Home and Homelessness Through Stories From Seattle's Tent City 3 

  Al-Abweh, Ru'a Hussein

  This is an exploration of “home” in pursuit of a better understanding of “homelessness”. While the literature on home and homelessness reveals various perspectives, social integration was considered most relevant for this ...

• Urban Nature for Well-being: Design Recommendations for Psychological Benefits in Urban Public Spaces 

  Kaiserman, Joanna Grace

  Urban nature is an important contributor to human health and well-being in urban areas, and must be integrated into the public realm. Cities such as Seattle that are experiencing population booms are concentrating growth ...

• Exploring Walkability: a Spatial Analysis of Vibrancy in New Holly, a New Urbanist Community in south Seattle, WA 

  Nautsch, Annegret Helene

  Walkability is a notion that crosses multiple fields of study including planning, real estate, and public health. Social cohesion and community ideals are equated to walkable areas. For this thesis, walkability is defined ...

• THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMIATIC CONDITIONS, DEMOGRPHIC VARIATIONS, AND WATER DEMAND MANAGEMENT POLICY ON DOMESTIC PER-CAPITA WATER USE IN THE UNITED STATES 

  Cai, Yingying

  Very little is known about how water use differs in various climatic regions. Many studies have been done on the topic of water resources and climate change, but they mainly emphasize on how the changing climate affects ...

• What Contributes to Successful Commute Trip Reduction in the State of Washington? A Focus on Transit Accessibility 

  Wieben, Zachary James

  Washington State passed the first version of the Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Law in 1991 and the resulting CTR program has been run by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The primary goal of the ...

• A Post-Design Evaluation Of Park Design And Usage: Cal Anderson And Judkins Park (Seattle, WA) 

  Harris, Melanie Rose

  Parks provide physical, mental, and environmental benefits, but still remain underutilized. To understand how designers’ intentions to consider community needs influence park usage, this post-design evaluation looks at the ...

• Scalable Manifold Learning and Related Topics 

  McQueen, James

  The subject of manifold learning is vast and still largely unexplored. As a subset of unsupervised learning it has a fundamental challenge in adequately defining the problem but whose solution is to an increasingly important ...

• Applications of Robust Statistical Methods in Quantitative Finance 

  Green, Christopher George

  Financial asset returns and fundamental factor exposure data often contain outliers, observations that are inconsistent with the majority of the data. Both academic finance researchers and quantitative finance professionals ...

• Institutional Determinants of Child Protection Systems in the United States 

  Edwards, Frank R.

  Child protection is a highly consequential social institution that simultaneously supports and regulates marginalized families. This dissertation shows that child protection systems are largely a product of the institutional ...

• Consequences of Partner Incarceration for Women’s Employment 

  Bruns, Angela

  Social scientists have amassed considerable evidence that incarceration has detrimental consequences for employment. Incarceration pushes inmates out of jobs, reduces employment prospects upon release, and confines former ...

• Unlocking the Black Box of Mental Health Court Case Processing: An Event History Analysis of Extralegal Characteristics & Behavior on Case Revocation 

  Beach, Lindsey Renee

  Problem solving courts are a bastion of judicial innovation and pragmatic optimism, however, their structure and case processing dynamics reintroduce high-levels of discretion to the courtroom. Past research indicates that ...

• Aging-as-Leveler for Mental Health?: Stressful Life Transitions and CES-D Trajectories in Late-Life 

  Morris, Julia

  Due to declining mortality rates and other demographic transformations, individuals aged 65 and above make up a larger share of the population within the United States than ever before, yet vast inequality remains in the ...

• Un primer acercamiento a la tradición del corrido mexicano en el Valle de Yákima 

  PEREZ, ELIZABETH Priscilla

  The corrido is recognized as a symbol of Mexican culture, manifested in several ways: by the characteristic melodies and lyrics, by giving voice to marginalized classes and by exposing the socio-cultural situation of the ...

• The Good Distance: Proust and sociability 

  Dedu-Constantin, Florentina

  Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu has been studied more than any other in French literature. Scholars have analyzed it from specific perspectives such as the relation between the artist and his art, class ...

• Researcher Trustworthiness in Community-Academic Research Partnerships: Implications for Genomic Research 

  West, Kathleen McGlone

  For many communities, health research exists on a backdrop of distrust of research institutions. Decades of harmful experiences across many types of health research have contributed, including studies of genetics, infectious ...

• Memory Enhances Search Strategies During Odor-Guided Foraging 

  Jackson, Brian Joseph

  Odor-guided searches are notoriously difficult due to the sparse and intermittent nature of odor plumes. However, rodents can adaptively modify their search strategy using internal representations of their dynamic environment. ...

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