ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Dissertation: An Integrated Bayesian Network-Based Zero Trust Model to Quantify Cyber Risk in Small-Medium Businesses, Ahmed Abdelmagid
Dissertation: Optimization of Niobium Film for Particle Accelerators and Quantum Applications, Bektur Abdisatarov
Dissertation: Computational and AI Tools for Understanding Telomere-Associated Cancer Mechanisms, Eleni Adam
Dissertation: Effects of Cross-Language Instructional Design on Foreign Language Learners' Cognitive Load: Approaching the Redundancy Principle of Multimedia Learning, Leonor Mendiola Adams
Dissertation: Electromyography, Prosthetic Properties, and Running Biomechanics in Recreationally Active Persons with Lower Extremity Amputation, Paige M. Agnew
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Hospital Consumer Evaluation In virginia, Tulay Akmandor Inac
Dissertation: Ultra-High Vacuum Outgassing Characterization of Thermally Processed Low-Carbon Steel for Advanced Particle Accelerator and Gravitational Wave Detector Applications, Aiman H. Al-Allaq
Dissertation: Paraeducators' Implementation Fidelity of Functional Communication Training Following an Intervention Package of Behavior Skills Training and eCoaching, Autumn M. Alexander
Dissertation: Bug-in-Ear eCoaching to Enhance Parents' Use of Embedded Learning Opportunities with Preschool-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Aeshah Alturki
Thesis: Quantifying Nutrient Fluxes Across the Sediment-Water Interface in the Lafayette River Estuary, Adriana E. Amrhein
Thesis: Effects of Beverage Color During Mouth Rinsing on Measures of Muscular Endurance, Muscular Strength, and Exercise Perceptions During Isometric Handgrip Testing, Sydney Andrews
Thesis: A Walk with the Wall, Chinecherem Arum
Dissertation: Synthesis And Characterization of Sugar-Based Molecular Gelators, and Photo Switchable Glycoconjugates, Pramod Aryal
Dissertation: Two Essays on Designing Conversational Agents: Varying Level of Mimicry and Personality–Brand Congruence, Sama Ashouri
Thesis: Role of Listeria Adhesion Protein in Monocyte-Associated and Extracellular Translocation of Listeria monocytogenes Across the In Vitro Placental Barrier Co-culture Model, Ayesha Atique
Dissertation: Fabrication of Flexible Laser-Induced Graphene-Based Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensor for Diabetes Management, Reagan Aviha
Dissertation: Energy Transition in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Five African Countries, Boluwatife G. Ayankojo
Dissertation: The Impact of Hypoxia and Androgen Inhibition on Prostate Cancer Cell Dedifferentiation and the DNA Damage Repair Response at Telomeres, Arooba Ayaz
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Analysis of Sense of Belonging Among Community College Educators, Muhammad Owais Aziz
Thesis: Cavitation-Aware Design of Hydrofoil Sections for Marine Propeller Blade Development, Samuel G. Bacon
Dissertation: Structure Meets Context: A Simulation Study of Centralized and Decentralized Decision-Making in Complex Environments, Murat Balci
Dissertation: Retention During Turbulent Times of Higher Education: Modeling Intent to Leave Academia for Research University Faculty, Jordan Monroe Ball
Dissertation: Autistic Students' Experiences with Hybrid Flexible Instruction in Higher Education: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study, Tracey Nicole Barr
Dissertation: Faculty Conceptualizations of Recreational Therapy and Disability: Influences on the Formal, Hidden, and Null Curricula in Undergraduate Recreational Therapy Education, Shelly Lynne Beaver
Dissertation: Development of Methods for Partial and Full Melt Compaction of Thermoplastic Composites for Improved Consolidation and Performance, Jimesh D. Bhagatji
Thesis: The Co-Development of ESPN+ and College Sports: A Case Study, Eric Bohannon
Dissertation: Bioengineering the Future of the Human Species: H+’s Ideological Iterations of Trans-/Posthumanity as Exemplified by Futurist Literary Texts = (Bio)Technological Solutions for (and/or) Reification of Systemic Inequities?, Marjorie E. Bomhower
Dissertation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Community College Presidential Job Announcements and the American Association of Community Colleges Competencies for Community College Leaders, Leslie M. Boon
Dissertation: Counselors’ Training Needs in Effectively Engaging With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Elif Bor
Dissertation: I Was There, I Belonged There, and I Should Be There: The Adult Student Experience in Community College Courses Filled With High School Students, Charles Douglas Bowling
Dissertation: Simulations of Inverse Compton Scattering with Radiation Reaction, Elizabeth Breen-Lee
Dissertation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Case Study on Principals’ Attitudes and Practices Toward the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities, Charlene Marie Briggs
Thesis: In the Talons of Falcons, Madison Winslow Britt
Thesis: Variability in Nutrient and Enterococcus Concentrations in Tidal Floodwater across Watersheds with Different Land Uses, Alyssa Bucci
Dissertation: Naturalistic Classroom and Home Practices to Support Executive Function and Self-regulation of Typically Developing Preschool Children Between the Ages of 3-5 Years Old: A Mixed Method Study, Michelle Ann Burek
Thesis: Enhancing NASA Sounding Rocket Capabilities Through Composite Material Adoption, Robert Burth
Dissertation: Quantitative Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Antiretroviral Drug Monitoring: Novel Quality Index and Distributional Approaches in Aqueous and Plasma Matrices, Marguerite Rose Butler
Dissertation: Multi-Particle Reactions in Lattice Field Theories: From Euclidean to Quantum Computations, Marco Antonio Carrillo Bernal
Dissertation: A Qualitative Case Study of Leadership Development in a Graduate Medical Laboratory Science Program, Demetra Castillo
Dissertation: Identifying Professional Development Needs of Deans at California Community Colleges, Matilda D. Chavez
Dissertation: Towards More Realistic and Practical Graph Backdoor Attacks, Jiawei Chen
Dissertation: Mass on Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in the 2019 Mondo Hemodialysis Cohort, Po-Yi Chou
Dissertation: Does Short-Termism Pay? National Short-Termism, Investment, Innovation, and Equity Returns, Andrew H. Cohen
Dissertation: Validating the LGBT-DOCSS: Understanding Measurement of Transgender Clinical Competencies, Peighton Corley
Thesis: Cultural Memory and Colonial Legacies: The Pandemic Era in France, Kathryn (Kate) R. Cross
Dissertation: Policies, Pedagogies, and Pressures: A WPA's Design-based Approach to First-year Writing Program Development, Megan A. Crowley-Watson
Thesis: Observations of an Oscillatory Mechanochemical Reaction Between Tetrathiafulvalene and Chloranilic Acid, Alastair Deans
Dissertation: Physics-Guided Deep Learning for Predictive Modeling of Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems, Niharika Deshpande
Dissertation: Radicals Transforming Organic Matter: Implications for Non-Pyrogenic Black Carbon and Nitrogen Formation, Molecular Dynamics in Tropical Soils, and Lignin Valorization, João Vitor dos Santos
Thesis: Hour of the Pearl, Taylor P. Ebersole
Dissertation: Education and Training in Water Operator Certification and its Role in Water Utility System Performance, Heath A. Edelman
Dissertation: A One Health Approach to Understanding the Natural History of Amblyomma maculatum in Southeastern Virginia, Christina D. Espada
Dissertation: The Physiology of the Work: Chronic Stress, Allostatic Load, and Faculty Wellness in Counselor Education, Ajayla S. Evins
Thesis: Early Parenting Stress and Later Abuse Risk: Dyadic Mediation by Maternal and Paternal Negative Attributions, Jewelian N. Fairchild
Dissertation: An Analysis of the United States Hegemony in Latin America Considering the Current Advancement of China in the Region, Hernan Mauricio Fajardo Gonzalez
Dissertation: Proxy Interfaces for Enhancing Non-Visual Web Usability, Md Javedul Ferdous
Dissertation: Becoming an Educator: A Narrative Inquiry Into the First-Year Journeys of Community College Career-Switching CTE Faculty, Alisha Ferrington
Thesis: Downstream Effects of Post Aerobic Digestion and Divalent Cation Treatment: Dewaterability, Phosphorus Mitigation, and Process Odors, Maya Marisol Quijano Garcia
Thesis: Dissecting the Etiology of Alcohol Use Disorder by an Integrative Heritable Component Approach, Ivy Garrenton
Dissertation: Social Capital as an Intervening Explanatory Mechanism Linking Socioeconomic Status and Deliberative Decision-Making in Citizen Advisory Boards in California Municipalities, Christopher Gerry
Dissertation: A Theoretical Framework for Recursion in Complex System Governance, Gilbert Goddin
Dissertation: How Women Community College Department Chairs Experience Leadership Work, Stephanie L. Goldenberg
Dissertation: Extending the Job Demands-Resource Model in Classified Work Environments: A Longitudinal Analysis of Job Demands, Resources, Job Satisfaction, and Retention Among Engineers, Gregory Gooden
Thesis: Personality Predictors of Cybersecurity Vulnerability: Insights from Self-Reports and Stimulated Threat Scenarios, Saroja Roy Grandhi
Dissertation: Inbox Impressions: Exploring Trans-Situational Networked Ecology’s Influence on Student-Instructor Emails in Academic Communities of Practice, Suzanne M. Gut
Dissertation: The War Poetry Map Project: Exploring the Physical and Emotional Geography of Conflict, Colin D. Halloran
Dissertation: The Impact of Liberalism on State Hard Power, Allen Wayne Hammerquist
Dissertation: Women's Displacement and the Reclamation of Identity: Navigating Landscapes of Contestation in the Postcolonial Novel, Carol P. Harvest
Thesis: Two Heads and an Application: A Journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew C. Holsopple
Dissertation: The Story of Demise, a Narrative Policy Framework Examination of Oregon’s Wildfire Risk Map, Robert B. Horton
Dissertation: Dependencies and Causality Modeling of Non-Stationary Count Time Series Data: A Copula-Based Approach With Structural Change Points, Md Iqbal Hossain
Dissertation: Strategies Black Male Students With Social Anxiety Use to Persist and Succeed at Rural Community Colleges, Gwendolyn F. Houston
Dissertation: Categorical Compression: Anti-Blackness and the Grammar of Crimmigration, Nicolas Ryan Howard
Dissertation: Dynamics, Characteristics, and Sinking Velocities of Small, Gel-Like Ocean Particles (24–1000 μm): Insights from Shadowgraph Imaging and Turbulence Modeling, Huanqing Huang
Dissertation: Convergence Theory for Deep and Multi-grade Neural Architectures, Lei Huang
Dissertation: The Effects of Working with Unidentified Migrant Remains: Caregiving, Border Security, and Human Rights on the U.S.–Mexico Border, Jennifer Delaine Huddleston
Dissertation: Advancing Environmental Risk Assessment Through Hydro-Climatological Modeling, Geospatial Analytics, and Machine Learning, Chathuranika Imiya Mudiyanselage
Dissertation: Empirical Rhetorical Modeling: New Analytical Tools to Evaluate the Intensity of Rhetoric, August Immel
Dissertation: Microstructural and Thermal Studies of Niobium on Copper Fabricated by Sputtering and Multicharged Ion Deposition, Md Obidul Islam
Dissertation: LGBTQ People's Lives Post-Incarceration: A Multi-Method Study, Hayley Jackey
Thesis: Exploring System Wide Trust and Dependency Behavior Within an Aviation Environment, Austin Jackson
Dissertation: Hybridization as a Driver of Biodiversity and Its Ecological Implications, Devani L. Jolman
Thesis: Exploring the Perceptions of United States Dentists and Dental Hygienists Towards Implementation of New Workforce Shortage Policies, Hite N. Jones
Dissertation: Exploring the Link Between Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Suicidal Ideation Among Asian and Asian American College Students in the United States: An Intensive Longitudinal Examination Through a Cultural Lens, Raksha Kandlur
Dissertation: Empowering Change: Building Environmental Sustainability Initiatives and Becoming a Sustainability Champion, Amanda C. Karls
Dissertation: The Effects of COVID 19 Job Demands on Public Sector Employees’ Organizational Commitment: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Job Burnout, and the Moderating Role of Supervisor Support, Benjamin R. Kaufman
Dissertation: Drinking Group Injunctive Norms: An Event-Level Examination, Karolina Kazlauskaite
Dissertation: Exclusive Neutral Pion Electroproduction Cross Section Measurements with a Neutral Particle Spectrometer, Mitchell R. Kerver
Dissertation: "On the Same Rope": An Exploratory Study of Staff Experiences at the Mountain Seed Foundation's Healing Base Camp Program, Jill C. Kivikoski
Dissertation: Motivation and Constraints in Recreation Participation Among Children and Adults With Disabilities, Monica Klock
Dissertation: The Lived Experiences of Master's Level Counselors in Professional Counseling Association Leadership, Catalina R. Kraft
Thesis: PTSD Symptoms and Cannabis Use Among College Students: Examining the Role of Trauma-Related Cannabis Use to Cope, Christopher T. Latourrette
Thesis: Engineering Cryogenic Thermal Links and Transport Systems for Conduction-Cooled Superconducting Cavities, Jacob B. Lewis
Thesis: Swimming Behavior of Longfin Squid Doryteuthis pealeii Paralarvae: Escape Jets to Pirouettes, Mel Lhuillier
Dissertation: Co-Constructing Physical Education Resources and Recommendations With Blind Adults, Yahan Liang
Dissertation: Exploring the Determinants of User Discontinuance in AI-Driven Usage-Based Insurance, Wenzhuo Li
Dissertation: Enhancing STEM Education with Modeling, Simulation, and AI Technologies: From Virtual Laboratories to Intelligent Teaching Assistants, Yiyang Li
Dissertation: Curiosity Dimensions as Predictors of Constructive Workplace Deviance, Nolan Lovett
Thesis: Perceptions of Virginia Dentists and Dental Hygienists Towards Emerging Alternative Dental Hygiene Workforce Provider Models, Lauren B. Mangum
Dissertation: Exploring the Physical Education Experiences of Blind and Visually Impaired Hispanic Multilingual Learners in Integrated Settings, Sheyla G. Martinez-Rivera