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 2020
Dissertation: The Effects of CEO Dismissal Risk and Skills on Risky Corporate Decisions and CEO Compensation, Son T. Dang
Thesis: The Effects of Military Sexual Trauma and Depressive Symptoms on Reintegration, Rachel L. Davies
Dissertation: A Case Study Exploring the Nature of How Prekindergarten Teachers’ Mathematics Instruction Decisions Relate to Their Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Raleta Summers Dawkins
Thesis: A Model of Individual, Relationship, and Societal Factors and Mental Health and Well-Being in Partnered Sexual Minority Women: The Central Role of Relationship Satisfaction, Charlotte A. Dawson
Dissertation: International Student Recruitment, Retention, and Transfer Efforts at Top Community Colleges Hosting International Students in the United States, Alejandra Diaz-Rangel
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of Group Treatment Outcomes for Veterans with Substance Use Disorders, Robert “Tony” Dice
Dissertation: Innovative Approaches in the Discovery of Aquatic Mycobacteriophages, Janis H. Doss
Dissertation: The Association of the National Assessment of Educational Progress Scores and Variance in State Education Requirements, Patrick M. Doyle
Dissertation: Wicked Ideas for Wicked Problems: Marine Debris and the Complexity of Governance, Dawn Helene Driesbach
Dissertation: Copper and Cobalt Metal Conjugation Enhances Flaviviral Replication, and DENV/ZIKV Caused Thrombocytopenia Suppresses Integrin Signaling, Shovan Dutta
Dissertation: Onboard Autonomous Controllability Assessment for Fixed Wing sUAVs, Brian Edward Duvall
Dissertation: Simulation and Development of the Radial Time Projection Chamber for the BONuS12 Experiment in CLAS12, Nathan M. Dzbenski
Dissertation: How Principals Learn to Be Technology Leaders: A Critical Incident Qualitative Study, Leon R. Edwards II
Dissertation: A Daily Diary Examination of Microaggressions and Alcohol Use Among Emerging Adult Bisexual Women: The Role of Alcohol Demand, Sarah J. Ehlke
Dissertation: Sociopolitical Crisis and the Rise of a Social Justice Superintendent in Charlottesville, Sara Lourdes Epperly
Dissertation: Investigating the Impact of the FAVA Well-Being Protocol on Perceived Stress and Psychological Well-Being With At-Promise High School Students, Renee L. Fensom
Dissertation: Trend Analyses of the Abundances of Atmospheric Molecules, Anton Fernando
Dissertation: Olfactory Behavioral Responses of Mosquito Vectors to Select Attractants and Floral Scents as Related to Circadian Rhythms and Photoperiod Regimes, Bernadette A. Ferraro
Thesis: A Parametric Analysis of a Turbofan Engine with an Auxiliary Bypass Combustion Chamber – The TurboAux Engine, Kaleab Fetahi
Dissertation: Investigating a Multimodal Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease, Sean M. Flannery
Dissertation: District Promotion Policies for Students with Disabilities: Examining Principal Interpretation and Implementation, LaToya Exum Floyd
Dissertation: The Effects of Interruption Relevance and Complexity on Primary Task Resumption and Mental Demand, Brandon Allan Fluegel
Thesis: Fighting for Power: Class Conflicts in Political Participation, David Foley
Thesis: Space-Based Countermeasure for Hypersonic Glide Vehicle, Robert Joseph Fowler IV
Dissertation: Mindfulness and Its Impact on Adaptive Coping and Psychological Well-Being: An Intervention for Undergraduate Students, Charles Bradley Freligh
Dissertation: Helping Employees Help the Environment: An Intervention to Increase Environmental Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB-E) Via a Subtle Stimulus, Rebecca C. Garden
Thesis: Parallelization of the Advancing Front Local Reconnection Mesh Generation Software Using a Pseudo-Constrained Parallel Data Refinement Method, Kevin Mark Garner Jr.
Dissertation: Towards Dynamic Vehicular Clouds, Aida Ghazizadeh
Dissertation: Inference and Estimation in Change Point Models for Censored Data, Kristine Gierz
Thesis: Colin and the Nachtmar, Elizabeth Sarah Golliher
Dissertation: Advances in the Understanding of Sourcing and Fate of Pyrogenic Organic Matter in the Environment, Aleksandar Ivaylov Goranov
Thesis: Global Conservation Status of Croaker and Drum (Family: Sciaenidae) and Role of the Maw Trade, Claire E. Gorman
Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization, Spectroscopic, and Mesomorphic Studies of New Schiff Base Ligands and Titanium, Cobalt, Nickel and Copper Metal Centers, Raj K. Gurung
Thesis: Lateral-Torsional Instability and Biaxial Flexure of Continuous GFRP Beams Including Warping and Shear Deformations, Waverly G. Hampton
Dissertation: Autism Spectrum Disorder Students: A Survey of Rural Community College Educators, Pamela Love Hanks
Thesis: Network Approaches to Elucidate the Determinants of Protein Topology and Stability, Zeinab Haratipour
Dissertation: Cyber Defense Remediation in Energy Delivery Systems, Kamrul Hasan
Dissertation: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Hall A, Jefferson Lab, Mohamed Nuhman Hashir Rashad
Dissertation: Illuminating the Voices of Black Women Principals: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, Crystal L. Haskins
Dissertation: Faits Accomplis in the Shadow of Shifting Power, Joshua Adam Hastey
Dissertation: The Relationship Between the Earning of Career and Technical Industry Credentials and the Virginia Economy, Anjanette McFadden Hendricks
Thesis: Stratified Security Communities: Transatlantic Distrust and Identity Divergence, Afra Maike Herr
Thesis: The Effects of Hackberry Psyllids on Refueling Migratory Songbirds and Autumnal Seed Rain, Chance H. Hines
Dissertation: A Rhetorical Frame Analysis of Palestinian-Led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement Discourse, Jennifer Megan Hitchcock
Dissertation: Designing for the One-Shot: Building Consensus on Design Processes for Academic Librarians, Kirsten Hostetler
Thesis: Attitudes of Virginia Dentists Toward Dental Therapists, Adaira Latrece Howell
Dissertation: Transformational Leadership Qualities Among Students Within Doctoral Higher Education Leadership Programs, Joshua Lee Howell
Thesis: The Impacts of Surface Gravity Waves on Buoyant Plume Dilution, Bruce William Husselbee
Thesis: The Open Heart Furnace, David Jacobson
Thesis: Compaction and Residual Stress Modeling in Composite Manufactured with Automated Fiber Placement, Von Clyde Jamora
Dissertation: Measurement of Pion-Pion Final State Interactions in η → π +π −γ with CLAS at Jefferson Lab, Torri C. Jeske
Thesis: Gender-Specific Mentorship for Collegiate Female Band Directors, Laura M. Johnson
Dissertation: Retaining Special Education Teachers: The Relationship Between School Leadership and Special Education Teacher Retention in a Low-Income School, Amanda Elizabeth Jones
Thesis: Assessment of Coordination and Proprioception in Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Taylor Kristina Jones
Thesis: The Effects of Optimism, Transformational Leadership, and Work Engagement on Work Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model, Chad Kenneally
Dissertation: Lignin: A Likely Precursor of a Significant Fraction of Humic Substances Via Oxidative Transformations, Seyyedhadi Khatami
Dissertation: Essay 1: How We Feel: The Role of Macro-Economic Sentiment in Advertising Spending-Sales Relationship; Essay 2: It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times: The Effect of Emotional Uncertainty and Arousal on Healthy Food Choices, Leila Khoshghadam
Dissertation: The Accumulation of IT Capability And Its Long-Term Effect on Financial Performance, Jin Ho Kim
Dissertation: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, But Moderately Variable: The Influence of Environmental Variability on Coral Thermal Tolerance, Courtney Nicole Klepac
Dissertation: Governance Impact on Public-Private Partnerships for Member Countries of the World Bank Group, Kouliga Koala
Thesis: Trajectory Simulation With Battery Modeling for Electric Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ege Konuk
Dissertation: A Quest to Identify the Emerging Leadership Skills in VUCA World and Investigation of Their Applications in Various Organizational Levels and Security Environments, Ali Can Kucukozyigit
Dissertation: Chief Academic Officers and the AACC's Leadership Competencies, Josh Philip Lavorgna
Dissertation: Student Success Coaching in Virginia Community Colleges, Angela Lawhorne
Dissertation: The Impact of Moderate Physical Activity and Student Interaction on Retention at a Community College, Anne Leavy-Prial
Thesis: Detailed Modeling of the Flash Hydrolysis of Algae for Biofuel-Production in COMSOL Multiphysics, Noah Joseph LeGrand
Thesis: Effects of Transparency and Haze on Trust and Performance During a Full Motion Video Analysis Task, Sarah C. Leibner
Thesis: Popular Television’s Health and Safety Message: What Has Changed in the Past Generation?, Heather Ann Leon
Dissertation: D-Vine Pair-Copula Models for Longitudinal Binary Data, Huihui Lin
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Roles of Review Valence and Conflict in Online Relationships, Ran Liu
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Microstructure of the Housing Market: Agents' Diffused Effort and Sellers' Behavior Bias, Zhaohui Li
Thesis: The Shape of Things We Won't Say, Raoul Lobo
Dissertation: Concept Maps as Sites of Rhetorical Invention: Teaching the Creative Act of Synthesis as a Cognitive Process, Amy Lee Marie Locklear
Dissertation: Two Essays on CEO Overconfidence in Relation to Speed of Adjustment of Firm Financial Policy and CEO Inside Debt, Xiang Long
Dissertation: Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Processing, Yan Lu
Dissertation: Pricing the Cloud: An Auction Approach, Yang Lu
Thesis: Coping Self-Efficacy as a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Sexual Orientation and Negative Mental Health Outcomes, James M. Macchia
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Virginia Title 1 Spending and Minority Male Graduation Rates: A Longitudinal Study, Anastacio B. Marin
Dissertation: Enhanced Model of Collaboration and Social Capital: Hampton Roads All Hazards Advisory Committee: A Replication Study, Adale M. Martin
Thesis: Air Pollution and Outdoor Recreation on Urban Trails: A Case Study of the Elizabeth River Trail, Norfolk, VA, James E. McCann
Dissertation: Climate Change Games as Boundary Objects: Fostering Dialogic Communication within Stakeholder Engagement, Megan L. McKittrick
Dissertation: Creating a Culture of Informal Mentoring at Community Colleges: Conditions that Strengthen and Weaken Relationships and Students' Structural Resiliency, Sharon McMahon
Thesis: Counterpublics, Abled Sex, and Crip Discourses on Twitter: A Discourse Analysis of Conversations of Sexuality and Disability, Claudia Garcia Mendoza
Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Envy, Murong Miao
Thesis: Flexible Electrochemical Lactate Sensor, Peyton Miesse
Dissertation: Holy Stitches Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am, A. Luxx Mishou
Dissertation: The Path to Victory: A Comparative Analysis of Mena Region Countries, Negar Moayed
Thesis: "In-Betweening" Disney: An Animated History of Hollywood Labor and Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947, Bradley Edward Moore
Thesis: Being Listened to With Empathy: The Experience and Effect for Emerging and Middle-Aged Adults, Elizabeth (Casey) Moore
Dissertation: Leveraging Maternal Rhetoric, Space, and Experience: La Leche League's Emergence as a Counterpublic, Jenny Lynn Moore
Dissertation: "Meet Me at the 50": A Critical Discourse Analysis of How Higher Education Curriculum Is Meeting the Needs of Black, Male Student-Athletes, Julia Diane Morris
Dissertation: Predicting the Likelihood of Dating Violence Perpetration in a Sample of Women: Unidirectional Versus Bidirectional Violence, Elaine Mae Murphy
Dissertation: Internationalization: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Faculty Who Have Led a Short-Term Educational Abroad Program, Rodin M. Ndandula
Dissertation: Nanosecond Stimulation and Defibrillation of Langendorff-Perfused Rabbit Hearts, Johanna Neuber
Dissertation: Possible Self Dynamics of Community College Students Engaged in 3D Printing in Informal Environments, Lawrence Ralph Nightingale Jr.
Dissertation: Secure Mobile Computing by Using Convolutional and Capsule Deep Neural Networks, Rui Ning
Dissertation: Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections in Social Media, Alexander C. Nwala
Dissertation: Analysis of Capital Distribution Among Ohio’s Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions, John D. O’Brien
Dissertation: Two Essays on Negotiations Between Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors, Aydin Selim Oksoy
Dissertation: Communities of Practice and Legitimate Peripheral Participation: Teacher Learning in Social and Situated Contexts, Ryan Patrick O’Meara