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: Community College Student Persistence: A Focus on Occupational and Academic Clubs, Catherine Jean Songer
Dissertation: Judging Credence Service Based on Experience Service Evaluation: Moderating Effect of Ease of Assessing and Extrinsic Cues, Kungpo Tao
Dissertation: Synthesis of ALD Zinc Oxide and Thin Film Materials Optimization for UV Photodetector Applications, Kandabara Nouhoum Tapily
Dissertation: On the Radius of Convergence of Interconnected Analytic Nonlinear Systems, Makhin Thitsa
Thesis: Model-Based Analyses of Nitrogen on the Mid-Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf, Tian Tian
Dissertation: Efficacy of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) Certifications, Daniel L. Trent
Dissertation: Automatic High-Fidelity 3D Road Network Modeling, Jie Wang
Dissertation: Interface Circuit for a Multiple-Beam Tuning-Fork Gyroscope with High Quality Factors, Ren Wang
Dissertation: The Tracking Performance of Distributed Recoverable Flight Control Systems Subject to High Intensity Radiated Fields, Rui Wang
Dissertation: The Relationship Between International Migration and Regional Integration, Christopher C. White
Dissertation: The Factors That Are Related to Native American Community College Students' Intent to Persist, Garnet Laureen Williams
Dissertation: Ethically Speaking: Academic Librarians' Perceptions of Information Privacy, Intellectual Freedom, and the USA PATRIOT Act, Alicia Carol Willson-Metzger
Dissertation: Financial Aid as Retention Predictor: The Relationship of Financial Aid to Retention at a Virginia Community College, Eunice Rohrer Wine
Dissertation: The Impact of Computer-Assisted Sight Word Instruction on the Reading Skills of Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities, Colleen Frances Wood-Fields
Dissertation: Towards an Organizational Strategic Vitality Theory: A Study of a Public Sector Board of Directors, Keith L. Woodman
Dissertation: Manipulating Particles for Micro- and Nano-Fluidics Via Floating Electrodes and Diffusiophoresis, Sinan Eren Yalcin
Dissertation: Altering Nitric Oxide Bioavailability and Lipid Profiles in Endothelial Cells By Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Particulate Matter, Liang Yu
Dissertation: A Hybrid Lehmer Code Genetic Algorithm and Its Application on Traveling Salesman Problems, Jun Zhang
Dissertation: What Drives U.S. Banking Mergers: Misvaluation, Gambling or Envy?, Wenjia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: A Virtual Infrastructure for Mitigating Typical Challenges in Sensor Networks, Hady S. Abdel Salam
Dissertation: Spectroscopic Study of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in an Optical Dipole Force Trap, Eman Mohammed Ahmed
Dissertation: Post-Project Risk Perception and Systems Management Reaction, Baqer Alali
Thesis: Plain and Steel-Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls With and Without CFRP Retrofitting, Ali Mohammed Salih Al Aloosi
Thesis: Untangling Fear of Crime: A Multi-Theoretical Approach to Examining the Causes of Crime-Specific Fear, Mariel Alper
Dissertation: Persistence of Community College Transfer Students in a Private Liberal Arts University Nursing Program, Rita M. Amerio
Dissertation: Cultural Intelligence: An Examination of Predictive Relationships in a Study Abroad Population, Bryan James Banning
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of a Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet, Asma Begum
Thesis: Body Size and Growth Patterns of Microtus Pennsylvanicus (Ord.) in Chesapeake, Virginia, Sara E. Bell
Dissertation: Effect of High School Completion of the Agricultural Education Program on the Rate of Return on Investment for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Phillip Scott Bevins
Thesis: Inter-Island Variability in Above and Belowground Plant Biomass in Interior Marshes on the Virginia Barrier Islands, Staci B. Blecha
Dissertation: Interannual Differences in Nutrient Dynamics During a Brown Tide Bloom (Aureococcus anophagefferens) and the Interaction of A. anophagefferens with Heterotrophic Bacteria, George Eric Boneillo
Dissertation: A Decision Making Construct for Complex Situations, Van Edward Brewer
Dissertation: A Solution of the Heat Equation with the Discontinuous Galerkin Method Using a Multilivel Calculation Method That Utilizes a Multiresolution Wavelet Basis, Robert Gregory Brown
Dissertation: Critical Components of Community College Enrollment Management Planning, Karen Hart Bucher
Dissertation: Evaluating the Effects of a Safe Space Training on Professional School Counselors and School Counseling Trainees, Rebekah Byrd
Thesis: Human Osteoblast Proliferation in Culture Following a Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF), Leonard Joseph Carinci Jr.
Dissertation: Concentrations, Distributions and Chemical Speciation of Zinc and Cadmium in the Equatorial and South Atlantic Ocean, Gonzalo G. Carrasco
Dissertation: Energy Crises and Cooperation: Do International Institutions Matter?, Vessela P. Chakarova
Dissertation: The Attraction of Adjunct Faculty to Rural Community Colleges, Hara Dracon Charlier
Dissertation: Analysis of Jump Linear Systems Driven by Lumped Processes, Jorge R. Chavez Fuentes
Dissertation: Graduate Students' Self Assessment of competency in Grief Education and Training in Core Accredited Rehabilitation Counseling Programs, Richard Jude Cicchetti
Dissertation: Urban School Counselors' Perceptions of Low-Income Families, Rebekah F. Cole
Dissertation: A Conceptual Model of Career Development to Enhance Academic Motivation, Nancy Creighton Collins
Dissertation: Women's Compliance in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment: The Role of Children and Mental Health, Cathy Gertrude Cooke
Dissertation: Neuromechanical Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Risk Factors in Female Collegiate Soccer Athletes, Nelson Cortes
Dissertation: Elementary Principals' Literacy Practices and Their Relationship to Student Achievement in Reading, Sandra Carper Cox
Thesis: Managing Complexity and Change in International Relations: The Case of Yemen, Michael J. Culton
Dissertation: Noncognitive Predictors of Academic Performance and Persistence in Horizontal and Vertical Transfer Students By Academic Level, Christopher A. Davis
Thesis: Diasporas from States in Crisis: A Case Study of the Zimbabwean Diaspora and Its Role in the Homeland, Leigh Ann Detwiler
Dissertation: Towards a Formal Theory of Interoperability, Saikou Y. Diallo
Dissertation: The Effective Use of Confrontation in Family Therapy: A Process Study, Timothy Michael DiGiacomo
Thesis: Determining the Utility of Technology for Education, Brian Spencer Dillon
Dissertation: The Applicability of the Megargee Classification System for the MMPI-A, Joel Andrew Dillon
Thesis: Religion on Divorce, Erik B. Doherty
Dissertation: Group II Metabolic Glutamate Receptors in the Basal Amygdala Regulate Sleep and Fear-Induced Alterations in Sleep, Enheng Dong
Dissertation: A Utilization-Focused Evaluation of a Community College Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Program, Gordon Edenfield
Dissertation: Return to Unfinished Business: Re-Energizing U.S. Nuclear Arms Policy, William T. Eliason
Dissertation: The Initial Development and Validation of the Teen Screen for Dating Violence, Kelly M. Emelianchik-Key
Dissertation: The Influence of Mechanical Circulation on Water Column Stability and Dissolved Oxygen in Stratified Lakes, Paal Engebrigtsen
Dissertation: The Influence of Network Factors on Network Centric Operations, Mehmet Fidanci
Dissertation: Where is the Learning in Smaller Learning Communities? Academic Press, Social Support for Learning, and Academic Engagement in Smaller Learning Community Classrooms, Christopher Michael Fischer
Dissertation: The Influence of Rape Empathy and Demographic Variables on Counselor Rape Myth Acceptance, Julia M. Forman
Dissertation: Implementer Perceptions of Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) Program, Robert W. Fox
Dissertation: Optimization Models and Algorithms for Spatial Scheduling, Christopher J. Garcia
Dissertation: Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children, Sabra B. Gear
Dissertation: Analytic Construction of Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problem, Mohammed A. Ghazy
Dissertation: Feasibility and Conceptual Design of a C.W. Positron Source at CEBAF, Serkan Golge
Dissertation: Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center, Jewel Shonette Goodman
Dissertation: The Effectiveness of Counselors as Care Managers in Improving Self-Management and Medical Outcomes in Persons with Poorly Controlled Diabetes, Ularisi Rebecca Green
Thesis: The Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Fauna of the Blackwater Ecological Preserve: Effects of Prescribed Burns and Habitat Type on Mosquito Abundance and Distribution, Norman A. Grefe lll
Dissertation: Methodology to Quantify Vertical Accelerations of Planing Craft in Irregular Waves, Jennifer Suzanne Grimsley
Dissertation: College Student Adjustment and Health Behaviors, Lisa Anne Hall
Dissertation: Adjustment Experiences and Ethnic Identity Attitudes Among High School Students in Advanced Academic Programs, Tiffany Michelle Hall
Dissertation: Internationalization Efforts in United States Community Colleges: A Comparative Analysis of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Institutions, Natalie Jean Harder
Thesis: A Predictive Game Theoretic Model to Assess US - Russian Response to an Islamic Safe-Haven in the Caucasus Region, Christopher Wayne Hartline
Dissertation: Exploring Entrepreneurialism in Community Colleges in the Appalachian Region, Sharon Lynn Hatfield
Dissertation: Perceptions of Virginia Community College System Faculty and Administrators on the Purposes for and Composition of a Comprehensive Evaluation System for Teaching Faculty Members, William H. Hightower Jr.
Dissertation: Academic Engagement: The Impact of Personal, Cultural, and School Factors on African American Student Academic Effort, Ruth Alisha Jenkins Hill
Thesis: User-Generated Video Sites Effects on Aggression and Interpersonal Relations of Old Dominion Undergraduate Students, Christopher R. Hodge
Thesis: Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Mentoring and Undergraduate Capitalization, Jonathan M. Holland
Dissertation: Urban Elementary Students' Views of Environmental Scientists, Environmental Caretakers and Environmentally Responsible Behaviors, Patricia Lynne Horne
Dissertation: Semi-Parametric Likelihood Functions for Bivariate Survival Data, S. H. Sathish Indika
Dissertation: A GIS Analysis of the Environmental Variables Related to Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks, Jacqueline Florette Jackson
Dissertation: Multi-Scale Edge Detection Algorithms and Their Information-Theoretic Analysis in the Context of Visual Communication, Bo Jiang
Dissertation: Organization of Human Sperm Chromosomes During Pronuclei Formation, Estella Jones
Thesis: Dispersion of Cytotoxic Properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Suspended in Biological Solutions with Tween 80: Their Role in Enhancing Killing Effects of Nanosecond Pulse Electric Fields on Tumor Cell Lines, Bhargava S. Kalluri
Dissertation: Factors That Influence Learning Satisfaction Delivered by Video Streaming Technology, Daniel Stephen Keenan
Dissertation: Impacts of the Spotted Spiny Lobster (Panulirus guttatus) on the Long-Spined Sea Urchin (Diadema antillarum) and Patch Reef Communities in the Florida Keys, Meredith D. Kintzing
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Exploration of School Counselors' Conceptualization and Implementation of Multicultural Competence, Jasmine Knight
Dissertation: Relationship Between Membership in DECA, An Association of Marketing Students, and Grade Point Average as an Indicator of Academic Success, Michael Frederick Kosloski Jr.
Thesis: How to Improve Project Management for Agile Federation Development, Priyanka Kotikalpudi
Dissertation: Doubling NATO: Functional and Geographical Enlargement of the Alliance, Ergodan Kurt
Dissertation: Counselor Attitudes Toward the Harm Reduction Approach in Substance Abuse Treatment, Nicole Marie Kyser
Dissertation: Questions of Transfer: Writers' Perspective on Familiar/Unfamiliar Writing tasks in a Capstone Writing Course, Heather G. Lettner-Rust
Dissertation: Mathematical Models and Stability Analysis of Cholera Dynamics, Shu Liao
Dissertation: Patient Centered Care Approach to Adherence with Cardiovascular Medications: Self-Determination Theory Integration, David S. Li
Thesis: Merging Schemas in a Collaborative Faceted Classification System, Jianxiang Li
Dissertation: An Examination of the Reading First Program at a Southeastern Virginia Elementary School and the Impact on K–2 Student Reading Achievement, Leslie Ford Lippard
Thesis: American and Chinese Personality Traits and Task Load in Simulated Flight Crews: Individual and Team Level Effects, Matthew Edward Loesch
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Study of Children's Experiences While Families Receive Services From a Homeless Agency, Sonya Lorelle