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 2011
Dissertation: A Method to Improve the Sustainment of Systems Based on Probability and Consequences, Michael Ashton Gaintner
Thesis: Modeling the Contagion Effect of Foreclosures Within the Real Estate Market by Use of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation, Marshall William Gangel
Dissertation: Adding Executable Context to Executable Architectures: Enabling an Executable Context Simulation Framework (ECSF), Johnny J. Garcia
Thesis: Predictors of Pre-Dispositional Juvenile Detention: Race Gender and Intersectionality, Jennifer Lee Gebler
Dissertation: A Three Dimensional Green's Function Solution Technique for the Transport of Heavy Ions in Laboratory and Space, Candice Rockell Gerstner
Thesis: The Ecology of the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) in Southeastern Virginia, Scott M. Goetz
Dissertation: Learning Local Features Using Boosted Trees for Face Recognition, Rajkiran Gottumukkal
Dissertation: Choosing to Serve: Modeling Antecedents of Public Service Motivation in Undergraduate Students, Vivian Walker Greentree
Thesis: A Methodology to Repair or Deorbit LEO Satellite Constellations, Goksel Gurgenburan
Thesis: Decontextualizing Development: A Critical Examination of American Popular Discourse on Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Haines
Thesis: Balloon Borne Mars Research Platforms, Sean Michael Hancock
Dissertation: Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Athletic Training Education, Dorice A. Hankemeier
Dissertation: A Principal's Perceptions of Character Education in a Rural Public School, Sandra H. Harrison
Dissertation: Understanding Fourth Graders' Decline in Reading Motivation from Students' and Teachers' Perspectives, Christine A. Hebert
Thesis: Richmond Iron: Tredegar's Role in Southern Industry During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Lisa Hilleary
Dissertation: The Effects of Expressive Writing on Anxiety, Mathematics Anxiety, Stress, Cognitive Processes and Psychological Processes on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) on a Sample of Urban High School Students Failing Mathematics, Claudia Lorene Hines
Dissertation: Epistemic Strategies for Solving Two-Dimensional Physics Problems, Mary Elyse Hing-Hickman
Dissertation: A Study of Two Generations of Culturally Diverse Community College Students Views on Leader Attributes in Self and Others, Paula Jeanine Hodkowski
Thesis: Architecture for a Flexible and Scalable Simulation Engine, Robert C. Holcomb Jr.
Dissertation: Elementary Teachers' Views of Environmental Education, Rose M. Hotchkiss
Dissertation: Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Admitting Physicians: A Heuristic Model, John Sharon Hudson
Dissertation: Social Trust in Contemporary Rural China: Its Sources and Impacts on Public Goods Provision, Narisong Huhe
Dissertation: Data Aggregation and Dissemination in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Khaled Ibrahim
Thesis: Meaning of Hijab According to Urban Egyptian and Yemeni Muslim Women, Kenneth E. Jackson
Dissertation: The Relationship of Cognitive Development Level, Supervision, and Counselor Skills in Preparing Counselors, Margaret Jean Jensen
Dissertation: A Variable Acceleration Calibration System, Thomas H. Johnson
Dissertation: Spectrum Adaptation in Cognitive Radio Systems with Operating Constraints, Deepak R. Joshi
Thesis: The Effect of an Offshore Wind Turbine Array on Circulation in an Idealized Coastal Ocean, Mahmoud Kamel
Dissertation: Optimization Models and Approximate Algorithms for the Aerial Refueling Scheduling and Rescheduling Problems, Sezgin Kaplan
Dissertation: Characterizations of Atmospheric Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Jets and Their Applications, Erdinc Karakas
Thesis: Stigmatization as a Barrier to Help-Seeking Among Individuals Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Tatyana Kholodkov
Dissertation: A Cultural Approach to Understanding Professional Experiences of Foreign-Born Faculty in U.S. Educational Leadership Preparation Programs, Iryna M. Khrabrova
Dissertation: Statistical Optimizations of Muscle Action Potentials Based on Modeling and Analysis of Ion Channel Dynamics, GyuTae Kim
Thesis: Writing Program Design for ESL Writers, Kacie M. Kiser
Dissertation: Using the Web Infrastructure for Real Time Recovery of Missing Web Pages, Martin Klein
Thesis: Examination Timetabling with Mathematical Programming An Application in Turkish Air Force Academy, Emrah Koksalmis
Dissertation: The Association Between Different Clinical Methods for Evaluating Lower Extremity Muscular Function, Roger Olen Kollock Jr.
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Effect of Macroeconomic News on the Stock Market, Ajay Kongera
Dissertation: Design of Multi Agent Based Crowd Injury Model, Emin Kugu
Dissertation: Modeling and Analysis of Repeated Ordinal Data Using Copula Based Likelihoods and Estimating Equation Methods, Raghavendra Rao Kurada
Thesis: Wrongful Convictions and Punitiveness: Measuring Student's Attitudes on Erroneous Felony Convictions, Shayna Lancaster
Thesis: Improving the Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells by Varying the Material Concentration in the Photoactive Layer, Kevin Anthony Latimer
Dissertation: Predicting Student Success in Passing the Exit Exam for Writing Proficiency, Cheryl Ann Latko
Dissertation: Attitudes of Counselors Regarding Ethical Situations Encountered by In-Home Counselors, Justin Douglas Lauka
Thesis: A Google Earth-Based Framework for Visualization of the Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System, Gary Lawson
Dissertation: Age-Related Hamster Mitochondrial Changes and Oocyte Changes Following Autologous Platelet Mitochondrial Microinjection, Fang Li
Dissertation: Bioinformatics, Thermodynamics and Kinetics Analysis of an All Alpha Helical Protein with a Gree-Key Topology, Hai Li
Thesis: Insights into Chemical Structure Changes of Kerogen from Bituminous Coal in Response to Dike Intrusions Investigated by Advanced Solid-State 13C NMR, Yuan Li
Dissertation: Community of Inquiry Framework and Learning Outcomes, Jennifer Ann Maddrell
Dissertation: Intercultural Accommodation of Ethnic Minority Consumers: An Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects in Service Encounters, Sarah Mady
Dissertation: The Nature, Origin and Preservation of Amide Organic Nitrogen in Organic Matter, Georgina Anne McKee
Dissertation: The Effects of Rumination, Hostility, and Distraction on Cardiovascular Reactivity and Recovery From Anger Recall in Healthy Women, Meghan K. McLain
Dissertation: Technology Independent Synthesis of CMOS Operational Amplifiers, Praveen Koushik Meduri
Dissertation: Stability and Change in Goal Orientation and Their Relationship with Performance: Testing Density Distributions Using Latent Trait-State Models, Michael Charles Mihalecz
Dissertation: Coping with Customer Sexual Harassment: Examining Retaliation as a Coping Strategy and Testing a Contextual Model, Valerie J. Morganson
Dissertation: Controls on the Formation of Algal Blooms in the Lower Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, Ryan Eric Morse
Dissertation: The Relationship of Financial Performance, Quality Indicators, and the Role of Nurse Executives in Virginia Nursing Homes, Jeany V. Murphy
Dissertation: The Impact of the Higher Education Regulatory Environment on For-Profit Higher Education Institutions, Rhonda L. Myers
Thesis: Rats as Forest Pests in Southeastern Virginia: Girdling by the Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon Hispidus as a Significant Source of Mortality of Loblolly Pines (Pinus Taeda) in a Successional Pine Forest, Robyn M. Nadolny
Thesis: Exploratory Study of Countries Lacking Data on Female Genital Mutilation in the Middle East and Africa, Nazia Rose Naeem
Dissertation: Comics as a Cognitive Training Medium for Expert Decision Making, Amber Nalu
Dissertation: Perceived Satisfaction of Counseling Doctoral Students With Their Dissertation Chairperson: Examining Selection Criteria and Chairperson Behaviors, Cheryl Warren Neale-McFall
Thesis: Blind Pass Stability Analysis, Robert Burgin Neal II
Dissertation: Supervision Competencies for Counselor Education Doctoral Graduates: A Delphi Study, Anita Ann Neuer
Dissertation: The Effect of improvisations and Observations on Standardized Patient Encounters, Subjective Workload and Stress, Elizabeth T. Newlin-Canzone
Thesis: Nawal Al Saadawi and Hanan Al Shaykh's Authorship: Between Arab and Western Reception, Diana M. Obeid
Dissertation: How “Struggling” Readers Engage in Literacy Events in Middle School Science: An Analysis of Interactions in Literacy Events, Kristin Cartwright Palmer
Thesis: Internet Usage and Religious Authority: A Case Study of the Catholic Church of South Korea, Youngho Park
Dissertation: Certification of Financial Aid Administrators, Stacey A. Peterson
Thesis: Steel Angle Section Members Under Combined Axial Load and Unsymmetric Bending, Maheshchandra Rajasekharan Phanibhushan
Dissertation: Community College Student Learning in Phlebotomy Preceptor-Led Clinical Internship, Susan E. Phelan
Dissertation: Circulation of the Western Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for Biological Production, Maria Andrea Piñones Valenzuela
Dissertation: Education and Economy: The Impact of Investment in Human Capital Through Education on Unemployment, Zafer Pirim
Thesis: Effect of Reworking and Bioturbation on Sedimentary Reactive Iron Within a Microtidal Estuary, Amy Kathleen Pitts
Dissertation: A Structured Project-Risk Management and Life Cycle Framework for Complex Systems: Ship Repair and Maintenance (SR&M) Projects, Michael Craig Plumb
Dissertation: The Absent Empire: The United States and the South American Regional Subsystem, Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixerira
Dissertation: Early Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism: Review and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Efstathios Polychronopoulos
Thesis: Looking Beyond the Medical Model of Sexuality: Social Factors in Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Cristalle Rae Pronier
Dissertation: A Mixed Methodological Analysis of the Role of Culture and Diagnostic Variance Among Counselors and Counselor Trainees, Elizabeth A. Prosek
Thesis: Solving the Vehicle Re-Identification Problem by Using Neural Networks, Tanweer Rashid
Dissertation: A Field Experiment to Test the Effects of Automated Feedback and Monetary Incentive on Speeding Behavior, Ian J. Reagan
Dissertation: Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Induction of Programmed Cell Death Is Cell Type Dependent: An in vitro Study, Wei Ren
Thesis: Patterns of Transience, Sex Bias, and Body Mass in Open-Habitat Rodent Populations, Stephen Edward Rice
Dissertation: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Students: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Effects of Bullying in Schools, Brandy Kelly Richeson
Dissertation: Persistence to an Associate of Applied Science Registered Nurse Degree: The Impact of Placing Into Developmental Education Courses on Student Success, Caroline Clark Rivera
Dissertation: Student Achievement as an Investment in Human Capital: Using Longitudinal Patterns of Per Pupil Instructional and Capital Expenditures, Socioeconomic Status, and Past Performance in Predicting Student Achievement, Charles Anthony Roberts
Dissertation: A Conceptual Model for Employer Training to Manage Employee Counter-Productive Behaviors, Naomi Spickard Rock
Dissertation: Random Keys Genetic Algorithms Scheduling and Rescheduling Systems for Common Production Systems, Elkin Rodriguez-Velasquez
Dissertation: Analyst Following, Capital Market Pressure, and Real Activity Manipulation, Melanie Maureen Rose
Dissertation: A Microfluidic Device for Impedance Spectroscopy, Ahmet Can Sabuncu
Dissertation: Compensation Techniques in Accelerator Physics, Hisham Kamal Sayed
Dissertation: Exploring the Impact of Classified Staff Interactions on the Student Experience: A Multiple Case Study Approach, Mary Ann Schmitt
Dissertation: Effects of 11 Years of CO2 Enrichment on Root Biomass and Spatial Distribution in a Florida Scrub-Oak Ecosystem, Rachel Eilenfield Schroeder
Dissertation: Photoproduction of the Φ(1020) Meson in Neutral Decay Mode γP → ΦP → K(S)K(L)P, Heghine Seraydaryan
Dissertation: The Preparation of Master's Level Professional Counselors for Positions in College and University Counseling Centers, Brian M. Shaw
Dissertation: The Doubly Inflated Poisson and Related Regression Models, Manasi Sheth-Chandra
Dissertation: A Qualitative Investigation of the Use of an Art-Based Technique in Counselor Group Supervision, Cheryl Shiflett
Dissertation: Understanding the Elements of Executable Architectures Through a Multi-Dimensional Analysis Framework, Edwin A. Shuman IV
Dissertation: A Least Squares Closure Approximation for Liquid Crystalline Polymers, Traci Ann Sievenpiper
Dissertation: The Association Between Depressive Symptoms, Relationship Satisfaction, and Self- and Partner-Attributions, Amy Harrison Smith