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: Development of a Benchmark Building Condition Index Utilizing Discrete Facility Subsets for Use in Risk Prioritization Analysis, Christopher A. May
Dissertation: Public Participation in Community Redevelopment Agencies: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Impacts of Collaboration in Public-Private Partnerships, Shannon McBride-Lewis
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Study of The Lived Mentoring Experiences of Black Women Faculty at Public HBCUs, Leona Quatena McGowan
Dissertation: Student Perceptions of the Community of Inquiry in Online Human Anatomy and Physiology Discussion Boards Using 2-D and 3-D Anatomical Models, Timothy J. McGuire
Dissertation: Learning In Motion: How Small Groups Can Promote Self-Regulated Learning in Physical Therapy Students, Sara McLaren
Dissertation: Advancing Imbalanced Classification through Representation Learning, Morteza Mohammady Gharasuie
Dissertation: Modeling Early Indicators for Success in an Associate Degree in Nursing Program, Joseph D. Moss
Dissertation: Physiological, Cognitive, Behavioral, and Perceptual Contributors to Falls Risk Across Middle and Older Adulthood, Jacquelyn Moxey
Dissertation: Building Bridges: Connecting Biomechanics and Lived Experience in Bertolotti's Syndrome, Andrea Morgan Muffly
Dissertation: Examining the Relationships Between Apathy Subdomains, Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Performance, Yasmin Bahai Nabulsi
Dissertation: Perceptions of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Program, Angela H. Napier
Thesis: Prince Thirteen, Jerome D. Newsome
Thesis: The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity and Bet-Hedging in Coping with Unpredictable Temperature Fluctuations in the Marine Annelid Ophryotrocha labronica, Gabrielle Dawn Newton
Dissertation: Technical and Vocational High School Training and Graduates' Socioeconomic Insertion in Burkina Faso, Jacqueline Nikièma
Dissertation: Exploring the Experiences of Women in Mental Health Therapy after the Occurrence of Perinatal Loss, Courtney Allison Nishnick
Dissertation: Back Yard Lingo: Language as Cultural Identity in American Circus, Aíne Norris
Dissertation: Herding Cats: The Behavioral Foundations of Successful Multi-sector Partnerships, Paul B. Olsen
Thesis: Menopausal Symptoms, Psychosocial Factors, and Physical Activity Among Physically Active Midlife Females, Ella Onsoriasl
Thesis: Shadowrunning the Human: Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun Series and Transhumanism, Alexander P. Orelup
Dissertation: Interpretable Sparse Modeling of Longitudinal Signals via Critical-Range Rectification and Anytime Rule Compression, Jason Orender
Dissertation: De Facto Captivity in the Land of the Free: Exploring the Confining Effects of Network and System Avoidance, Brianna Ovalle
Dissertation: The Role of Autonomy and Motivation on Teacher Retention: A Mixed Methods Study, Jordan Overton
Thesis: Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving: A Real-World Deployment on Little Blue, Raphael T. Pamie-George
Dissertation: Structure of the Picornavirus Replication Platform: A Potential Drug Target for Inhibiting Virus Replication, Samjhana Pandey
Dissertation: From Shallow to Upper Mesophotic Reefs: Examining Environmental Influences on Coral Physiology and Thermal Tolerance, Katherine Eileen Parker
Thesis: Field of Impermanent Scars: Poems, Megan A. Pastore
Dissertation: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Parent-Educators in Pursuit of Stability and Growth in the Early Education Workforce, Britney N. Patrick
Dissertation: Assessing Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Organizational Effectiveness Through a Multidimensional Theoretical Model: An Interpretive Phenomenological Qualitative Case Study, Andrea M. Paul
Thesis: Foreign Bodies: A Novel, Helen F. Peluso
Thesis: Behavioral, System, and Informational Cyberattacks: A Human-in-the-Loop Driving Simulator Experiment, Samuel Petkac
Dissertation: Parameter Dependent Chen-Fliess Series and Their Nonrecursive Interconnections, Natalie T. Pham
Thesis: Framework for Proximity Drone Navigation Using Gaze Gestures, Kayla Pineda
Dissertation: Modeling and Generating Crash Avoidance Behaviors in Safety-Critical Vehicle–Pedestrian Interactions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Qingwen Pu
Dissertation: Nanostructured Negative Electron Affinity Gallium Arsenide Photocathodes with Enhanced Quantum Efficiency and Extended Charge Lifetime for Advanced Photoinjectors, Md Aziz Ar Rahman
Dissertation: Time-Frequency Analysis of Arterial Pulse Signals of Cardiovascular Disease Patients Measured by a Microfluidic-Based Tactile Sensor, Md Mahfuzur Rahman
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of the Discharge Modes of Nanosecond Pulsed Plasmas at Atmospheric Pressure, Md Ziaur Rahman
Dissertation: Building Adaptive Leaders: Examining the Relationship Between Undergraduate Co-Curricular Leadership Roles, Change Readiness, and Leadership Self-Efficacy, Reneldo N. Randall
Dissertation: Exploring Literacy Preparedness and Academic Experiences of First-Year Community College Students, Alexandra Ranieri
Dissertation: Statistical Learning Methods for Predicting Ordinal and Count Outcomes in Genomics Data, Heranga Kalpani Rathnasekara
Dissertation: Macroscopic Classical and Quantum Models of Inverse Compton Scattering, Emerson Penn Rogers
Thesis: Objectification and Discrimination Among Bi+ Women: Body Image Outcomes and the Moderating Role of Relationship Type and Partner Gender, Kaitlyn E. Ryan
Dissertation: More Than a Tool? How AI Design Shapes Customer Responses, Elaheh Saffari
Dissertation: Integrated Resource Recovery from Waste and Biomass Streams Toward a Circular Bioeconomy: Process Development from Algal Conversion to Lithium Extraction, Ashani Rangana Samaratunga
Dissertation: Residual Stress Informed Reconstruction and Failure Analysis of Manufacturing Induced Composite Meso-Structure, Mohammad Nazmus Saquib
Dissertation: Glioma Segmentation in MRI using a 3D Hybrid U-NET with Adaptive Self-Attention and Multi-Modal Fusion, Evan P. Savaria
Dissertation: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study of the "Intervention Implementation Experience" with Department Chairs and Program Coordinators During a Performance Improvement, Courtney W. Schoolmaster
Thesis: The Body Dealer, Tori Scotti
Dissertation: Extinction Risk of Coral Reef Fishes in the Philippine Marine Ornamental Trade, Jemelyn Grace Baldisimo Sepulveda
Dissertation: The Association Between Prenatal Nicotine Exposure and Postpartum Depression, Reem Ali Sharaf-Alddin
Dissertation: Learning Techniques in Prediction of Functional Epigenomic Events, Mohammad Shiri
Dissertation: Assessing Shifts in Leadership Language: A Comparative Study of the AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders, Bethany A. Siehr
Thesis: From Invisible Injury to Measurable Impact: Exploring Associations Between Peripheral Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation And Mental Health Outcomes After mTBI, Lauren Leggett Smith
Dissertation: Bridging Mission and Execution: Integrating Participatory Design in Early-Phase Mission Engineering for Stakeholder Alignment and Mission Clarity, Rafi Soule
Dissertation: “You’ve Built a Beautiful World”: Hope, Care, and the Utopian Ideals of the Cozy Fantastic, Jessica Haden Stanley
Dissertation: 'We Will Be Here': Modeling Hunting Community Narratives in Avanersuaq, Greenland, Talor Stone
Thesis: The Effects of Sexual Orientation Stereotype Information and Prejudice on False Memories, Source Monitoring Errors, and Social Categorization Judgments, Julia Belen Strickland Nunez
Dissertation: A Study of Short-Range Correlated Pair Formation Mechanisms, Noah S. Swan
Dissertation: Analyzing the Institutional Factors Associated With Sense of Belonging Among STEM Adjuncts at Community Colleges, Karuna Taneja
Dissertation: Drones in Wildfire Airspace Management: Developing a Scalable Framework for Mid-Sized Cities, Victoria Denise Tanner Williamson
Dissertation: Modulation of Electrophysiology and Plaque Aggregation in Huntington’s Disease Patient-Derived Cells by Picosecond Pulsed Electric Fields, MacKenzie A. Tardif-Kunk
Dissertation: Tagged J/ψ Photoproduction Near Threshold, Mariana Tenorio Pita
Dissertation: Considering Special Education Program Performance Analysis and Teacher and Student Involvement in Transition Planning: A Delphi Study to Prioritize Student Interests, Strengths, and Transition Assessment, Charles S. Thull
Dissertation: A Coupled String-SDOF Framework for the Effect of Pulse Measurement on the Arterial Pulse Signal in Uniform and Tapered Arteries, Subodh Sushant Toraskar
Dissertation: Switches and Witches: Exploring the Relationships Between Religious Struggles, Spiritual Beliefs, and Well-Being, Emma J. Trierweiler
Dissertation: Biocrude From Organic Waste and Its Conversion to Hard Carbon: Experimental and Modeling Study, Isamu Umeda
Thesis: Infection Relationships of Rose Rosette Disease in a Cultivated Collection, Ray Volkin
Dissertation: The Mediating Role of Hope in the Relationship Between Everyday Discrimination and Depression Among College Students, Busra Vurkun
Dissertation: Long-term Spatiotemporal Change in Coral Reef Fish Populations and Communities in the Philippines, John Christopher Whalen
Dissertation: Profiles of Science Students’ Achievement Emotions: An Exploration of Motivational Antecedents and Persistence Outcomes over Time, Arianna White-Levatich
Dissertation: Atomic-Scale Investigation of Functional Molecular Systems and Graphene Nanoribbons Using Scanning Probe Microscopy, A.M. Shashika D. Wijerathna
Dissertation: “Recollecting the Told Story”: Storytelling, Activism, and the Black Maternal Health Emergency, Lamaya C. Williams
Dissertation: The Leadership Lens: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Sensemaking Experiences of School Leaders Implementing Virginia's New Standards of Accreditation and Accountability, Paul M. Wilson Jr.
Dissertation: Sensemaking by Rural Community College Mid-Level Academic Leaders During Localized Disruptions: A Critical Incident Technique Study, Donata Worrell
Dissertation: Pushing High-Performance Private Inference Towards Resource-Constrained Edge Clients, Xiangrui Xu
Dissertation: A Causal Inference Protocol for Root-cause Diagnosis in Non-stationary Industrial Time Series, Cansu Yalim
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Dissertation: A Focused Ethnography: Mental Health Therapists in Pediatric Integrated Care, Melanie Agustin
Dissertation: SCITEUQ: Toward Uncertainty-Aware Complex Scientific Table Data Extraction and Understanding, Kehinde Ajayi
Dissertation: Supervisees’ Responsiveness in Supervision With Doctoral Student Supervisors, Zübeyde Akpakır
Dissertation: Predictors of Healthcare Providers' Readiness for Health System Transformation in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Ali Alasiri
Dissertation: Graduate Physical Therapy Students Perceived Benefit of Prior Anatomy Experiences Following Their First Semester Graduate Physical Therapy Anatomy Course, Austin Alexander
Dissertation: Unfolding Particle Detector Effects and solving QCD Inverse Problem with Generative AI, Tareq Saeed Alghamdi
Dissertation: Advanced Analytical Biosensing for Cancer Detection and Neural Diagnostics Using Tapered Optical Fiber (TOF), Protonic, and High Throughput Microplate –Based Technologie, Bayan Hassan Alharbi
Dissertation: A Systematic Review of Corporate Ethics Program Training Strategies to Improve Ethical Workplace Cultures, Robin Raye Altice
Dissertation: Acculturation Experiences of International Students in the U.S. CACREP-Accredited Counselor Education Programs: Challenges, Support Systems, and Systemic Barriers, Nargiza Amirova
Dissertation: Development of Flexible Lactate-Specific Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Based on Laser-Induced Graphene Electrochemical Biosensors for Disease Diagnosis, Christopher Animashaun
Dissertation: The Impact of Drought and Socio-Economic Factors on Attitudes Toward Immigrants in South Africa, Pamela Antwi-Nimarko
Dissertation: Understanding Executive Order 13583’s Impact to Federal Workforce Diversity & Employee Perception of Federal Policies and Programs, Michael Robert Arenella
Dissertation: The Impact of North Carolina State Aid on Community College Students, Wesley Rhea Armstrong
Thesis: Investigating the Discrepancies between Acoustic and Radar Measurements of Water Level Using Data Analysis and Computational Modeling, Ohiedul Haque Mohammad Asad
Dissertation: Investigating the Ability to Perceive Nonverbal Behaviors in Different Interaction Formats, Amanda J. Ashdown
Dissertation: Two Essays on Firms’ Reactions to Major Events in Rival Companies, Alireza Askarzadeh
Dissertation: Examining Access, Outcomes, and the Experiences of Black Women: Improving Racial Equity in Adult Drug Treatment Court, LaQuana N. Askew
Dissertation: Two Essays on Customer Loyalty, Arjang Attar Shoushtari
Dissertation: “We Are Trans, But We’re Not Transitional”: Exploring Safety, Place, and Space in the Lives of Transgender Individuals in Southeastern Virginia, Susana Avalos
Thesis: Student Impressions of Undergraduate Art Therapy Education: A Survey, Shana Baird
Dissertation: Effects of High Temperature Compaction on 3D Printed Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, John D. Barber
Dissertation: When Nonbinary Becomes Binary: Exploring Transnormativity Experiences of Gender Diverse Individuals, Yusuf Barburoğlu
Thesis: Exploring Bonding Through Outdoor Recreation in Foster Care Utilizing Attachment Theory, Casandra L. Barnes
Dissertation: Policymaker Receptivity to Corporate Political Activity as Influenced by Activists, Mark E. Bateman
Thesis: The Aid Impact Theory: A Theoretical Framework for Maximizing the Impact and Sustainability of Foreign Education Aid in Ghana, Jonas Bensah