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
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
Dissertation: Addiction Counselors' Perceptions of Clinical Supervision Practices, Marla Harrison Newby
Thesis: New Method of Nickel Oxide as Hole Transport Layer and Characteristics of Nickel Oxide Based Perovskite Solar Cell, Loi Nguyen
Dissertation: A Multi-Criteria and Dynamic Sustainability Assessment of Crop Rotation Alternatives, Saturnina Fabian Nisperos
Dissertation: A Study of Late Registration at Four Community Colleges, Meredith Courtney Nourie-Manuele
Thesis: Characterizing the Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides Against the Pathogenic Bacterium Clostridium Difficile in an Anaerobic Environment, Adenrele Mojeed Oludiran
Dissertation: Examining the Measurement Invariance of the MMPI-A-RF Externalizing Scales Across Korean and American Adolescent Normative Samples, Kristoffer Yong Park
Thesis: Flexural Behavior and Strength of Doubly-Reinforced Concrete Beams with Hollow Plastic Spheres, Rutvik R. Patel
Dissertation: Non-Invasive Picosecond Pulse System for Electrostimulation, Ross Aaron Petrella
Dissertation: Countervisuality as Policy Feedback: A Critical Policy Study on the Symbolic Role of Visual Culture in Contemporary Antiracist Resistance, Lindsay N. Plott-Buckner
Thesis: Contemporary Russia in America's World: Russian Narratives on Post-Soviet Space, Marianna Portniagina
Thesis: Human-Robot Collaborative Force-Controlled Micro-Drilling for Advanced Manufacturing and Medical Applications, Parimal Mahesh Prajapati
Dissertation: Building a Cognitive Readiness Construct for Violent Police-Public Encounters, James Eric Preddy
Thesis: Single-Stage, Venturi-Driven Desalination System, Brandon Proetto
Dissertation: Community College Faculty Compensation for Online Course Development and Delivery, Radhika I. Prout
Dissertation: Optimization of Top Contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells, Grace Cherukara Rajan
Dissertation: Technology, Institutions and Their Interactions: How Do These Explain E-Participation Degree and Levels? A Cross-Country Analysis, Pragati Rawat
Dissertation: Generation of Large-Volume Diffuse Plasma by an External Ionization Wave From a Single-Electrode Plasma Jet, Seyed Hamid Razavi Barzoki
Dissertation: 3D Bioprinting Systems for the Study of Mammary Development and Tumorigenesis, John Reid
Thesis: Incivility as a Barrier to Embeddedness Among Engineering Students: Does Gender Matter?, Katelyn R. Reynoldson
Dissertation: Throw Me a Lifeline: A Comparison of Port Cities with Antithetical Adaptation Strategies to Sea-Level Rise, Claudia Marie Risner
Dissertation: Bisexuality and Motherhood: An Investigation of Psychological Distress, Parenting Efficacy, and Self Esteem Through Identity Theory, Laurin B. Roberts
Dissertation: Exploring the Variant Experiences Through Which Racial/Ethnic Minorities Select Art Therapy as a Career, Mary Ritchie Roberts
Thesis: When Silence Screams: An Examination of Reporting Behaviors Among Sexual Assault Victims on HBCU Campuses, NaTasha Robinson
Dissertation: Predicting Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Student Success: Executive Functions and Standardized Admission Tests, Jane E. Roitsch
Thesis: Museum of Unforeseen Circumstances, Ethan Forrest Ross
Dissertation: The Effect of the Behavioral Analysis Feedback Model on Improving Performance of Nursing Students During Clinical Rotations, Melanie Elizabeth Ross
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Course Delivery Mode and Location with Course Success for Dual Enrolled Students, Dean Morris Roughton
Thesis: A Cost Effective Design for a Propeller Thrust/Torque Balance, Nicholas Barrett Sadowski
Dissertation: Leveraging Resources on Anonymous Mobile Edge Nodes, Ahmed Salem
Thesis: Testing the Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Treating Depression in Patients with Cognitive Impairment, Daniel Robert Schaffer
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Creation and Success of New Ventures, Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh
Dissertation: Punishment as Pedagogy: An Exploration of the Disciplinary Alternative School, Kaitlyn J. Selman
Dissertation: Instructional Designer Awareness and Application of Strategies to Manage Cognitive Load, Justin A. Sentz
Dissertation: Beyond Carrots and Sticks: An Analysis of U.S. Approaches to Counterterrorism From 2000-2016, Margaret M. Seymour
Dissertation: Development of a Laser-Spark Multicharged Ion System – Application in Shallow Implantation of Sic by Boron and Barium, Md. Haider Ali Shaim
Dissertation: An Examination of the Key Features of Salman Rushdie’s Historiographic Metafiction: A Possible Worlds Theory Approach, George Shamshayooadeh
Dissertation: Understanding the Mechanical Behavior of Costal Cartilage at Their Curved Exterior Surface Via a Tactile Sensor with a Built-In Probe for Distributed-Deflection Detection, Jiayue Shen