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 2017
Dissertation: Behavior and Strength of RC Spandrel Members Under Unsymmetrical Bending and Torsion Including CFRP Retrofitting, Muhammad Fahim
Thesis: A Correlational Study of SansEC Sensors’ Electric Field Distribution on Lightning Attachment, Kayla M. Farrow
Dissertation: Emergency Diesel-Electric Generator Set Maintenance and Test Periodicity, Stephen John Fehr
Dissertation: Using Pre-Calculus and Calculus Student Work to Examine Student Problem Solving Abilities in Online and Face-to-Face Mathematics Courses, Sarah Catherine Ferguson
Dissertation: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to the Maritime Security Risk of Piracy and Lessons Learned From Agent-Based Modeling, Joanne Marie Fish
Thesis: The Effect of Interruptions During a Laparoscopy Skills Training Task, Brandon Allan Fluegel
Thesis: Intercultural Communication Training and Law Enforcement Officers: A Career-Span Analysis and Education Agenda, Amanda M. Franco
Thesis: The Relationship of Early Class Start Times on Sleepiness and Driving Behaviors in an Emerging Adult Population, Jessica L. Fry
Thesis: Characterization of 3-Ester and 3-Carbamate Derivatives of N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine and Their Use in Controlled Drug Delivery, Consuelo Garcia
Thesis: Initiating Event Analysis of a Lithium Fluoride Thorium Reactor, Nicholas Charles Geraci
Dissertation: The Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries: The Securitization of Kurds in Turkey Versus the Autonomization of Acehnese in Indonesia, Maurizio Geri
Dissertation: Student Global Mobility: An Analysis of International STEM Student Brain Drain, Margaret E. Gesing
Thesis: Healthy Living and Other Electives, Lamar Giles
Thesis: Impact of a Localized Lean Six Sigma Implementation on Overall Patient Safety and Process Efficiency, Luvianca G. Gil-Moreno
Dissertation: BBC News: Defining Britishness in the Early Twenty-First Century, Christine Gilroy-Reynolds
Dissertation: The Effect of "Casitas" on Lobster Biology and Fishery Sustainability in the Bahamas, Lester George Gittens
Thesis: Recurrent Neural Networks and Matrix Methods for Cognitive Radio Spectrum Prediction and Security, Alexander M. Glandon
Dissertation: A Dirty Dilemma: Determinants of Electronic Waste Importation, Jamila N. Glover
Dissertation: An Examination of African American Male Students’ Perceptions of Academic Success and Their Experiences at the Community College, Shashuna Jenean Gray
Thesis: Foraging Behavior of Spring Bees and Their Agricultural Implications, Michael D. Gregory
Dissertation: Empty Chair at the Table: Bargaining, Costs and Litigation at the World Trade Organization, Felicia Anneita Grey
Dissertation: Adjusting to Community College as an International Student in Appalachia, Deirdre T. Guyton
Dissertation: Analysis of Virginia Barrier Island Shoreline Movement and Correlations to Sea Level, Wave Height Changes, and Teleconnection Patterns, James Daniel Haluska
Dissertation: Leadership Competency Perceptions of Rural Community College Presidents in the Coastal Southeast Region, Keith A. Harkins
Dissertation: Assessing Learning Strategies with an Educational Video, David James Harrison
Thesis: Americans’ Willingness to Communicate With Mexican Immigrants: Effects of Ethnocentrism and Immigration Status, Stephanie Leanne Harris
Thesis: Development of the Compact Jet Engine Simulator From Concept to Useful Test Rig, Henry H. Haskin
Dissertation: Protective Factors Against Peer and Social Media Sex Messages: The Moderating Role of Parental Influences on African American Emerging Adult Students' Sexual Behaviors, Jacqueline Eunice Haywood
Thesis: Groundwater and Tidal Controls on Wetland Hydrology, Julie J. Metz Wetland Mitigation Bank, Woodbridge, Virginia, Benjamin Stuart Hiza
Dissertation: Factors Influencing Health Outcomes Across the Least, Average and Healthiest States in America, Somayeh Hooshmand
Thesis: A Low Cost Inflatable CubeSat Drag Brake Utilizing Sublimation, Adam Charles Horn
Dissertation: Using Constant Time Delay and eCoaching to Teach Employment Skills to Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability in a Community Work Environment, Annemarie L. Horn
Thesis: Thermally Assisted Pulsed Electric Field Ablation for Cancer Therapy, James Michael Hornef
Thesis: Initial Development and Validation of the Deliberate Denial of Disordered Eating Behaviors Scale, Lindsay Marie Howard
Thesis: With Light, Emily Howell
Dissertation: Examining the Relationship Between Selected Grade 3-12 Teachers’ Perceived Assessment Literacy and Their Classroom Assessment Practices, Mark E. Hudson
Thesis: Lifespan Communication and Career Development of Black Teachers: A Socio-Ecological Approach, Veronica Whinnett Hurd
Thesis: Mexican Bingo, Amanda Michelle Galvan Huynh
Dissertation: Hip Mechanics of Unilateral Drop Landings, Bobbie S. Irmischer
Thesis: A Study of the Sensitivity of Energy Conversion Efficiency to Load Variation in Class-E Resonant Power Inverter, Richard Samuel Jennings
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Trauma Exposure and College Student Adjustment: Factors of Resilience as a Mediator, Amber Leih Jolley
Thesis: Investigation, Modeling And Validation Of Digital Bridge For A New Generation Hot-Wire Anemometer, Karthik Kamalakar Joshi
Dissertation: Establishing the Psychometric Properties of the Understanding Mental Health Scale: A Dissertation Study, Michael Thomas Kalkbrenner
Dissertation: Efficient Machine Learning Approach for Optimizing Scientific Computing Applications on Emerging HPC Architectures, Kamesh Arumugam Karunanithi
Dissertation: The Effect of Narrative Feedback on the Learning and Transfer of Complex Communication Skills, Rebecca A. Kennedy
Thesis: Improved Ballistic Wind Prediction Using Projectile Tracking Data, William Arthur Kenney
Dissertation: Behavior and Strength of Non-Prestressed and Prestressed Hillman Composite Beam Including CFRP Retrofitting, Wajid Khan
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Impact of Institutional Structures on Entrepreneurship: Country Level Analysis, Mehdi Sharifi Khobdeh
Thesis: The Effect of Bone and Ligament Morphology of Ankle Joint Loading in the Neutral Position, Jinhyuk Kim
Dissertation: Improving Second Language Lexical Acquisition Through Personalization and Contextualization: A Look at Intrinsic Cognitive Load Reduction Strategies, Curtis Kleinman
Dissertation: Using Optimality Theory and Reference Points to Improve the Diversity and Convergence of a Fuzzy-Adaptive Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizer, Amit A. Kulkarni
Dissertation: Attitudes and Actions that Adoptive Parents Perceive as Helpful in the Process of Raising Their Internationally Adopted Adolescent, Marina V. Kuzmina
Thesis: Clubbie: Two Seasons with Baseball's Broken Dreamers, Gregory Scott Larson
Thesis: Dead Cooks, Aaron David Lawhon
Dissertation: Modeling Energy Consumption of High-Performance Applications on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms, Gary D. Lawson Jr.
Thesis: Development of a Data Acquisition System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System Identification, Donald Joseph Lear
Thesis: Eye Tracking as a Control Interface for Tele-Operation During a Visual Search Task, Jeffrey Neal Levy
Thesis: A Little Bit of a Breakdown, Margaret Libby
Thesis: Investigation of Low Cost Substrate Approaches for III-V Solar Cells, Marlene Lydia Lichty
Dissertation: Developing a Career Development Assessment for Predicting Young Stem Graduates’ Employability and Career Barriers, Yi-Ching Lin
Dissertation: Supervisor and Subordinate Perceptions of Leader-Member Exchange: Examining Idiosyncratic Deals and Work-Family Experiences in a Moderated Mediation Model, Michael L. Litano
Dissertation: What Do You Believe? School Leaders and an Ideology of Achievement, Andrew T. Lloyd
Dissertation: Sleep Disorders and Kidney Transplant Outcomes: Findings From an 18-Year (1997-2015) Historical Cohort Study, Margaret M. Lubas
Dissertation: Obesity Policy Stringency Over Time: A Four State Policy Design, Luisa M. Lucero
Dissertation: School Resource Officers and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Mixed Methods Application of the Behavior of Law in Schools, Caitlin Grace Lynch
Dissertation: Breaking the Silence: A Phenomenological Exploration of Secondary Traumatic Stress in U.S. College Student Affairs Professionals, Robert Jason Lynch
Thesis: Examining Body-Focused Self-Improvement and Self-Evaluation Social Comparisons on Exercise in Young Adult Women Using Ecological Momentary Assessment, Rachel I. MacIntyre
Dissertation: Influence of Tides and Mesoscale Eddies in the Ross Sea, Stefanie Lynn Mack
Dissertation: Diversity Team Building: Impact on Virtual Team Performance, Nina C. Magpili-Smith
Dissertation: Infusing Complex Problem-Solving and Systems Thinking in College Leadership Development Programs, Dionicia Mahler-Rogers
Thesis: Multi-GPU Accelerated High-Fidelity Simulations of Beam-Beam Effects in Particle Colliders, Naga Sai Ravi Teja Majeti
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Antecedents and Effects of Internationalizing Out of Emerging and Developed Economies, Mark Robert Mallon
Dissertation: Towards a New Profession: Counselor Professional Identity in Italy. A Delphi Study, Davide Mariotti
Dissertation: Facilitating Higher Levels of Thinking and Deeper Cognitive Processing of Course Texts Using Reciprocal Teaching Strategies in Asynchronous Discussion Forums, Jenifer R. Marquis
Dissertation: An Eye Tracking Study to Investigate the Influence of Language and Text Direction on Multimedia, Arwa Adulwahab Mashat
Thesis: New Elegies, Sarah McCall
Dissertation: Exploring the Relationship between Media Influence and Policy Output: A State Comparative Study, Stephanie Savas Joannou Menefee
Thesis: Investigation and Analysis of the Fluctuating Brominated to Total Trihalomethane Ratio in the Virginia Beach Distribution System, Christopher Steven Mihalkovic
Dissertation: Implementation of a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Toolkit to Aid in Ranking Naval Mission Vessel Combinations With Uncertainty, Andrew R. Miller
Dissertation: An Exploration of Career Decision-Making Among Domestic and International Instructional Design Students, Erin L. Mills
Thesis: Deposition of Silicon Thin Films by Ion Beam Assisted Deposition, Tejaswini Miryala
Dissertation: Being Retained: Perspective of the Online First-Year Composition Student, Catrina Marie Mitchum
Dissertation: Low Temperature Plasma for the Treatment of Epithelial Cancer Cells, Soheila Mohades
Dissertation: Instrument Design Optimization with Computational Methods, Michael H. Moore
Thesis: The Otherworlds of Men, Aaron Morris
Dissertation: Women’s Entrance Into the Fire Department: A Theory of Collaboration and Crisis, Sarah Vee Moseley
Dissertation: Acquiring the Tools of Grand Strategy: The US Navy's LCS as a Case Study, Sean P. Murphy
Dissertation: Optimal Ship Maintenance Scheduling Under Restricted Conditions and Constrained Resources, Vi Hong Nguyen
Thesis: “El Negro Sin La Oreja”: A Dialectical Approach to the Blackness in Dominican Identity, Kevin E. Nicholes
Dissertation: Investigating Physical Processes Associated With Chesapeake Bay and Changjiang Estuary, Arash Niroomandi
Dissertation: Photoproduction and Radiative Decay of ηt Meson in CLAS at JLAB, Georgie Mbianda Njencheu
Dissertation: The Efficacy of Programming Energy Controlled Switching in Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM), David Malien Nminibapiel
Dissertation: Exploring the Relationship Between Depression and Resilience in Survivors of Childhood Trauma, Marquis A. Norton
Dissertation: Development and Validation of a Hybrid Virtual/Physical Nuss Procedure Surgical Trainer, Mohammad F. Obeid
Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Sugar-Based Low Molecular Weight Gelators, Ifeanyi Simeon Okafor
Dissertation: The Correlation Between the National Survey of Student Engagement Indicators and First Year Student Achievement, Satisfaction, And Retention, Larry Peck
Dissertation: Simulated Dynamics of Soil Water and Pore Vapor in a Semi-Arid Sandy Ecosystem, Shohreh Pedram
Thesis: Predictive Value of ADHD Symptomatology on Motives and Outcomes of Stimulant Misuse, Alexander Laszlo Peterkin
Dissertation: Understanding the Experiences of Women with Anorexia Nervosa Who Complete an Exposure Therapy Protocol in a Naturalistic Setting, Gina B. Polychronopoulos
Thesis: Biology and Impacts of Leech Infestation in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) in Back Bay, Virginia, Amanda Nicole Pomposini