All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.
See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Thesis: Anthropomorphically Inspired Design of a Tendon-Driven Robotic Prosthesis for Hand Impairments, Manali Bapurao Bhadugale
Dissertation: Risk of Unintended Pregnancy in Latina Young Adults: The Effect of Gender Role Beliefs, Acculturation, and Depression, Jessica Block
Dissertation: The Influence of Engineers on Public Policy, Sarah Bouazzaoui
Thesis: Aerothermodynamic Analysis of a Mars Sample Return Earth-Entry Vehicle, Daniel A. Boyd
Thesis: The Association Between Emotional Competencies and E-Cigarette Susceptibility, Laurel Brockenberry
Thesis: Sub/Mission, Abigail Naomi Brunt
Thesis: Exploring Factors That Enhance Career Advancement for African-Americans Across Various Criminal Justice Occupations: A Qualitative Examination, Antonio Jon Bryer
Thesis: More Than What Meets the Eye: An Examination of Characteristics That Impact Juvenile Justice Detention Decisions, Ashley Maria Buchanan
Dissertation: Research vs. Reality How School Districts Meet the Developmental Needs of School Principals, Catina Bullard-Clark
Thesis: Regional Sea Level Rise Along the United States Coasts, Alessandra G. Burgos
Thesis: Online Social Capital: Social Networking Sites' Influence on Civic and Political Engagement, Charles L. Bush
Dissertation: Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women, Denise M. Calhoun
Dissertation: The Effects of Selection System Characteristics and Privacy Needs on Procedural Justice Perceptions: An Investigation of Social Networking Data in Employee Selection, Rachel C. Callan
Dissertation: Predicting Score Change: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating on Unproctored Employment Tests, Katelyn J. Cavanaugh
Thesis: Safe Passage to the End of Earth, Gregory Martin Chandler
Thesis: Volterra Series Approximation for Multi-Degree of Freedom, Multi-Input, Multi-Output, Aircraft Dynamics, Alexander J. Chen
Dissertation: Synthesis and Characterization of Glycolipids, Glycoclusters and Glycomacrocycles, Anji Chen
Dissertation: Security Risk Tolerance in Mobile Payment: A Trade-off Framework, Yong Chen
Dissertation: Contextual Framework of Communications Functions Supporting Complex System Governance, Charles Wesley Chesterman Jr.
Dissertation: The Effects of Teacher Coaching in the LINCing Routine on the Vocabulary Knowledge of Secondary Students with Disabilities, Dana W. Cho
Dissertation: An Examination of Athletic Directors' Perceptions of the Utilization of Athletic Trainers in the Secondary School Setting, Stephanie H. Clines
Dissertation: A Representation of Tactical and Strategic Precursors of Supply Network Resilience Using Simulation Based Experiments, Yaneth C. Correa-Martinez
Dissertation: Decision Making in the Sciences: Understanding Heuristic Use by Students in Problem Solving, Elizabeth Csikar
Dissertation: Numerical Framing and Emotional Arousal as Moderators of Review Valence and Consumer Choices, Anh Dang
Thesis: “For The Homeland”: Die Deutsche Hausfrau and Reader Responses to World War I, Julie Sliva Davis
Thesis: Supporting Big Data at the Vehicular Edge, Lloyd Decker
Thesis: Non-Destructive Evaluation for Composite Material, Desalegn Temesgen Delelegn
Dissertation: Understanding Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge in an Educational Technology Course: A Case Study of Social Studies Preservice Teacher's Beliefs and Dispositions, Mark M. Diacopoulos
Thesis: The Effects of Rating Source, Rating Target, and Job Position on Ratings of Perceived Training Needs, Phillip Joseph Dillulio
Dissertation: The Impact of the Number of Dual Enrollment Credits on Racial Minority Students’ Completion Time at Five Virginia Community Colleges, Elizabeth Gardiner Dingess
Dissertation: Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Family Adjustment Measure with Lower-Income, Ethnic Minority Parents of Children with Disabilities, Vanessa Nicole Dominguez-O'Hare
Dissertation: Ethical Accountability of Licensed Professional Counselors: A Comparative Study of State Regulations and the Effects on Ethical Behavior, Kelly J. Doolan
Thesis: Differential Gene Expression in Response to Hypoxia and Acidosis in Chest Wall Deformities and Chondrosarcoma, Jamie L. Durbin
Dissertation: Simplified, Alternative Formulation of Numerical Simulation of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, Russell L. Edwards
Thesis: Examining the Role of Behavioral Inhibition in Harsh Parenting Preferences: An Analog Study, Kelsey T. Ellis
Dissertation: Risk and Resiliency Factors Affecting the College Adjustment of Students with Intersectional Ethnocultural Minority and LGBTQ Identities, Stacey Christina Fernandes
Thesis: The Evaluation of Enhancing Biological Phosphorus Removal and Improving Settleability Using Mainstream Hydrocyclones for External Selection, Amanda Carrie Ford
Dissertation: The Effects of Metacognitive Training on Algebra Students’ Calibration Accuracy, Achievement, and Mathematical Literacy, Deana J. Ford
Thesis: Families Communicating About Health: Conceptualization and Validation of the Family Health Communication Quotient Scale, Erin E. Gafner
Dissertation: Ion Bunch Formation Strategies for the JLEIC Collider, Bamunuvita Randika Prasad Gamage
Thesis: Fem Media Matters: An Inqueery Into Campus Sexual Assault, Andrew Kennedy Garber
Thesis: Improved Thermal Stability of Cesium-Doped Perovskite Films With PMMA for Solar Cell Application, Christine M. Gausin
Thesis: A Right-Hand Man: A Novel, Christopher Giofreda
Dissertation: The Importance of Keeping the Big Ones: Harvest Slot Limits and Marine Protected Areas for the Management of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Gayathiri Gnanalingam
Thesis: Sugar Acts, Amanda Raquel Gomez
Thesis: Are We All #NastyWomen? The Rhetoric of Feminist Hashtags and Respectability Politics, Kimberly Lynette Goode
Thesis: The Last Cherokee of Blue Ridge, Dexter Benjamin Gore
Dissertation: A Multi Case Study of Community College Discipline Faculty’s Participation in a Disciplinary Literacy Professional Learning Community, Kristen Howell Gregory
Dissertation: Community College Students' Deep Learning Approaches in OER Courses, Kim Ellen Grewe
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Adult Relationship Health for Economically Marginalized, Racially and Ethnically Diverse Individuals, Sandy-Ann M. Griffith
Thesis: Analysis of Bulk Power System Resilience Using Vulnerability Graph, Md Ariful Haque
Thesis: Zika Modulates Arthropod Histone Methylation in Mosquito Cells, Telvin Lee Harrell
Dissertation: Behavioral Determinants of Exercise-Related Injury Prevention Program Participation, Emily M. Hartley
Thesis: Identifying Marine Key Biodiversity Areas in the Greater Caribbean Region, Michael S. Harvey
Thesis: Deep Learning for Segmentation Of 3D Cryo-EM Images, Devin Reid Haslam
Thesis: The Effects of Automation Transparency and Ethical Outcomes on User Trust and Blame Towards Fully Autonomous Vehicles, Nathan Andrew Hatfield
Thesis: Distributed Sensing and System Identification of Cantilever Beams and Plates in the Presence of Weak Nonlinearities, Patrick Sean Heaney
Dissertation: A Single Campus Study of the Green Dot Bystander Intervention Program, Brittany F. Hollis
Dissertation: Development and Evaluation of Post-Production Oxygenation Techniques for the Augmentation of Biochar, Matthew David Huff
Dissertation: The Impact of Performance-Based Funding on Graduation Rates at Texas State Technical College, Adam Hutchison
Thesis: A Dual Resonant Transformer and a Dielectric Antenna for Picosecond Pulse Radiation, Khiem Huynh
Thesis: A Novel Power Sharing Control Method for Distributed Generators in DC Networks, Christina James
Thesis: Grateful Beneficiaries and Proud Benefactors: A Moderated Mediation Model Relating Supervisors' Gratitude Expression to Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior, William Peter Jimenez
Thesis: Dynamic Response Modeling of High Speed Planing Craft with Enforced Acceleration, Brian K. Johnson
Thesis: IDPAL - Input Decoupled Partially Adiabatic Logic: Implementation and Examination, Kevin A. Johnson
Dissertation: Motivating and Enabling Factors for Military Service Members Earning a Post-Secondary Degree, Rossie Dean Johnson
Dissertation: Examining the Association of Environmental Degradation and Poor Cardiovascular and/or Respiratory Health Outcomes in a Disadvantaged Community, Khyati Niranjan Kantaria
Dissertation: Reimagining the Chalk Talk: Animated Handwriting as a Social Cue to Improve Motivation in Multimedia Video Lessons, Hillary C. Kaplowitz
Dissertation: Physiological Tremor in Handgun Aiming and Shooting Tasks, Kyle J. Kellran
Dissertation: Is There a More Distinct South? Comparing Key’s, Elazar’s and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Version of the South through the Lens of the Affordable Care Act, Robert Christopher Kenter
Dissertation: Factors Influencing Student Enrollment in Career Academy Programs, Whitney Stokes Ketchledge
Dissertation: Identification and Optimal Linear Tracking Control of ODU Autonomous Surface Vehicle, Nadeem Khan
Dissertation: Sequence-Based Simulation-Optimization Framework With Application to Port Operations at Multimodal Container Terminals, Mariam Aladdin Kotachi
Thesis: Girlhood, Tarin Kovalik
Thesis: Plastics and Microplastics as Vectors for Bacteria and Human Pathogens, Amanda Lee Laverty
Dissertation: Approximation of Quantiles of Rank Test Statistics Using Almost Sure Limit Theorems, Mark Ledbetter
Dissertation: An Exploration of Practicum Students' Experiences of Meaning-Making Through Altruism, Debra Paige Lewis
Dissertation: Value Added Products From Lignin and Biomass Derivatives, Chen Li
Thesis: Current Radiation Safety Practices of United States Dental Hygienists, Kimberly Lintag
Dissertation: Predicting Effects of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise on Hydrologic Processes in a Mid-Atlantic Coastal Watershed, Rui Li
Dissertation: Investigating Application of the Self-explanation Learning Strategy During an Instructional Simulation, Paul Michael MacLoughlin
Dissertation: Human-Intelligence and Machine-Intelligence Decision Governance Formal Ontology, Faisal Mahmud
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Risk Preferences, and Ability, Corporate Hedging Decisions, and Investor Sentiment, Sonik Mandal
Thesis: Your Favorite Place, Christina Marable
Dissertation: Predicting First-Year Mathematics Success at the Community College: Modifications on High School Grade Point Average and the Impact of High School Quality, C. Caleb Marsh
Dissertation: Latent Class Analysis of Malingering Classifications Using Performance and Symptom Validity Measures in a Civil Forensic Setting, Willie Floyd McBride III
Thesis: Permanent Resident, Joshua McGarry
Thesis: Advances in Amino Acid Analysis for Marine Related Matrices and Its Application to Coastal Shelf Settings in The Canadian Arctic, Rachel M. McMahon
Thesis: The Quality of Mercy, Kerry McNamara
Dissertation: Design and Implementation of an Artificial Neural Network Controller for Quadrotor Flight in Confined Environment, Ahmed Mekky
Thesis: Lack of Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity in Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis), Jessica Shannon Miller
Thesis: Gust Alleviation System for General Aviation Aircraft, Lucas Coleman Mills
Dissertation: Constructing an Early Modern Queen: Posturing, Mimicry, and the Rhetoric of Authority, Megan K. Mize
Thesis: We Are the Bobcats, Jacquelyn Mohan
Dissertation: Social Construction of Power in Policymaking: A Case of Cybersecurity Articulation Agreements in Virginia, Michael Paul Moore
Thesis: Predictors of Medical Students’ Attitudes Towards Abortion and Their Changes Overtime, Rebecca Elizabeth Morales
Dissertation: Exploring Critical Success Factors of Community Development Projects, Kevin Wanjama Muchiri
Dissertation: FlexStream: SDN-Based Framework for Programmable and Flexible Adaptive Video Streaming, Ibrahim Ben Mustafa
Dissertation: Testing a Model of Servant Leadership's Influence on Follower Outcomes: Exploring Mediation Effects of Follower Trust and Prosocial Identity, Dante P. Myers
Thesis: Novel Technique for Gait Analysis Using Two Waist Mounted Gyroscopes, Ahmed Nasr