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 2009
Dissertation: Determinants of Increased Safety Belt Use by High School Students in Motor Vehicles: The Influence of Parents and Peers and Implications for Virginia's Graduated Driver Licensing Laws, Georjeane Linley Blumling
Dissertation: Establishing a Connection Between Quality of Life and Pre-Academic Instruction for Students with Profound Multiple Disabilities, Jonna L. Bobzien
Dissertation: Ecology and Molecular Phylogenetics of Hydnora (Hydnoraceae) in Southern Africa, Jay Francis Bolin
Dissertation: Interdependent Regulation of Cytomegalovirus Proteins in Complex, Lisa L. Bolin
Dissertation: A Test of Direct and Partially Mediated Relationships Between Leader Member Exchange, Job Embeddedness, Turnover Intentions, and Job Search Behaviors in a Southern Police Department, Mark D. Bowman
Dissertation: Developing a Philosophical Profile of the Individual for Complex Problem-Solving Through Agent-Based Modeling, Ipek Bozkurt
Thesis: A Framework for Using Modeling and Simulation-Based Methods in Support of Project Management in a U.S. Department of Defense Enterprise Architecture Framework Environment, Jose Leprout Bricio-Neto
Thesis: Feminisms in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Emily G. Brown
Dissertation: The Effects of Elaborative Interrogation and Summarization on Student Comprehension, Retention, and Satisfaction in Online, Self-Paced Instruction, Heather M. Brown
Dissertation: Examining the Community and Two-Year Technical College Presidency: Vice President and Chief Officer Perceptions of Challenges, Changes, and Aspirations, Juliet Jefferson Brown
Dissertation: Attitudes and Beliefs of Counselor Educators Toward Gatekeeping, Joanna W. Campbell
Dissertation: Efficacy of Dual Enrollment in Rural Southwest Virginia, Karen Glass Carter
Dissertation: Consumer Receptivity of Foreign Products: The Roles of Country-of-Origin Image, Consumer Ethnocentrism and Animosity, Larry Lee Carter Jr.
Dissertation: The Philanthropic Motivations of Community College Donors: A Study of the Educational Foundation of a Mid-Sized, Multi-Campus Community College in Virginia, Linnie Smith Carter
Thesis: Poetic to Platonic Alētheia Orality, Literacy, and the Development of Truth in Greek Poetry and Philosophy, Justin B. Cecil
Dissertation: Factors Affecting Adult Foraging and Chick Growth of Adélie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) off the Western Antarctic Peninsula: A Modeling Study, Erik W. Chapman
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Provider Effects on Student Achievement, Shanan L. Chappell
Dissertation: High-Energy Amplitudes in Gauge Theories in the Next-to-Leading-Order, Giovanni Antonio Chirilli
Dissertation: Changing Diversity in U.S. Schools: The Impact on Elementary Student Performance and Achievement, Jennifer Karyn Clayton
Thesis: Intimate Partner Violence: Criminal Justice Responses to High Lethality Cases, Victoria E. Collins
Dissertation: Supporting Protocols for Structuring and Intelligent Information Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Filip Cuckov
Thesis: Biogenic Tracers Through the Holocene on the Alaskan Shelf, Carie A. Curry
Dissertation: Reflective Visual Journaling During Art Therapy and Counseling Internships, Sarah P. Deaver
Dissertation: Towards the Quantitative Analysis of the Connectivity Value of Networked Operations, Dean Deller
Dissertation: Leadership Development Programs in Two-Year Colleges: Critical Components, Delivery Methods, and the Role of Distance Learning Technology, Mary Clare DiGiacomo
Dissertation: Relationships Between Black Female College Students' Relationships with Their Fathers and Adult Romantic Attachment, Nicole A. Dock
Dissertation: Characterization of Microwave Cavity Discharges in a Supersonic Flow, Dareth Janette Drake
Dissertation: Development and Validation of the Cultural Competence of Program Evaluators (CCPE) Scale, Krystall Dunaway
Dissertation: Surface Dynamics of Silicon Low-Index Surfaces Studied by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction, Ibrahim El-Kholy
Dissertation: Mitigating Crack Propagation in a Highly Maneuverable Flight Vehicle Using Life Extending Control Logic, Mohamed Mostafa Yousef Bassyouny Elshabasy
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Long-Term Effectiveness of a Women's Leadership Development Program, Kirsten S. Ericksen
Dissertation: Interconnections of Nonlinear Systems Driven by L₂-ITÔ Stochastic Processes, Luis A. Duffaut Espinosa
Dissertation: Selection of Pressure Equation for Preliminary Planing Hull Design Using Modified Analytical Hierarchy Process, Pamela Sue Fergen
Dissertation: How Does the Use of Assistive Technology Influence Reading Comprehension Performance of Postsecondary Students With Learning Disabilities?, Kimberly Kris Floyd
Dissertation: Organizational Justice Perceptions in China: Development of the Chinese Organizational Justice Scale, Katherine M. Fodchuk
Dissertation: The Effect of Technology Education on Student's State Standardized Test scores, Maurice Torrez Frazier
Dissertation: The Rise of 'People Power': Role of Civil Society in the "Color Revolutions", Vladyslav Galushko
Dissertation: A Method for Introducing Artificial Perception (AP) to Improve Human Behavior Representation (HBR) Using Agents in Synthetic Environments, Randall Bartholomew Garrett
Dissertation: An Analytical Framework and Model Formulation for Measuring Risk in Engineering Enterprise Systems: A Capability Portfolio Perspective, Paul Raphael Garvey
Dissertation: Modeling and Simulation of Coaxial Helicopter Rotor Aerodynamics, Murat Gecgel
Dissertation: Comparative Study of Forward and Diffusely Scattered Light in a Coherently Prepared Ultracold Rubidium Gas, Rocio Gisel Olave Gonzalez
Dissertation: Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between State Fiscal Effort and Academic Achievement, Timothy A. Goodale
Thesis: Investigating Connections: Pornography and Violence Against Women, Stacy Gorman
Dissertation: Spin Structure of the Deuteron, Nevzat Guler
Thesis: Operational Knowledge Transfer in Municipal Utility Organizations, G. Christian Guvemator IV
Dissertation: A Qualitative Inquiry of Conceptualized Heterosexuality and Its Influence on the Counseling Process, Breyan N. Haizlip
Dissertation: Algorithms for Vertex-Weighted Matching in Graphs, Mahantesh Halappanavar
Dissertation: The Corruption Enigma: Understanding Success and Failure of Corruption Reform Programs in Highly Corrupt Countries, Matthew T. Hall
Dissertation: Stability Analysis, Modeling, Simulation and Experimental Testing of an EMS Maglev System with Structural Flexibility, Aravind M. Hanasoge
Dissertation: Comparing High School Students' and Adults' Perceptions of Technological Literacy, Henry Ladson Harrison III
Dissertation: Role of the Human Cytomegalovirus IE2 Protein on Transcriptional Regulation of Viral Promoters, Siabhon Michelle Harris
Dissertation: Lipid Targets of the Antimalarial Trioxanes in Plasmodium falciparum, Carmony Leah Hartwig
Dissertation: The Role of Optimism and Working Alliance and its Utility in Predicting Therapeutic Outcomes in Counseling Relationships, Michael A. Hauser
Dissertation: Female Perspectives of Professional Identity and Success in the Counseling Field, Amanda C. Healey
Dissertation: Phosphorylation of the Estrogen Receptor Alpha (ERα) at Serine 118 by Phospho-p44/42 MAPK and Regulation by Estrogen and Progesterone in Human Uterine Leiomyoma Tissue and Cells, Tonia Lakisha Hermon
Thesis: Investigating the Factors That Influence Injury Severity During Large Truck Crashes, Irina Olegovna Hoag
Thesis: Media Exposure and Women's Fear of Crime, Pamela C. Hooper
Dissertation: Biotic and Abiotic Characteristics Influencing Nest Location and Trophic Relationships of the Fungus-Growing Ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (Formicidae: Attini), Jonathan Paul Howell
Dissertation: Geometrically Nonlinear Arc Length Sparse Finite Element Analysis and Optimal Design of Truss Structures, Glenn A. Hrinda
Dissertation: An Integrated Probability-Based Approach for Multiple Response Surface Optimization, Okay Isik
Dissertation: A School Leadership Perspective on Cultural Competencies and Self-Regulation in a Government-Funded Preschool Setting, Anita B. James
Dissertation: The Use of Fourier Transform (FT) Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering for Biochemical Analysis, Robert Butler Jeffers
Dissertation: A Pilot Study to Explore the Use of Expressive Writing to Reduce Anxiety and Psychological Threat in an Academic Setting, Cynthia Delores Jenkins
Thesis: Prostate Cancer Biomarker Identification: A Comparative Study, Wenjuan Jiang
Thesis: Terrorism: A Study of the Policy Preferences of Old Dominion University Students, Bruce Johnson II
Thesis: An Examination of the Combined Impact of Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse or Neglect on Juvenile Delinquency, Tracie R. Johnson
Thesis: Sources of Informal Social Control and the Relationship to Victimization in Southeastern Virginia, Jennifer R. Jones
Dissertation: A Study of Decision Analysis Methods in Aerospace Technology Assessments, Sharon Monica Jones
Dissertation: Middle School Parents' Perceptions of Career and Technical Education, Virginia R. Powers Jones
Thesis: Solvent Dependent Morphologies in Thiol-ene Photopolymerization: A Facile Route to Synthesis of Resorcinarene Nanocapsules, Zaharoula Marie Kalaitzis
Dissertation: Reconciling Discontinuities and Disruptions: The Construction of an Integrated Typology, David Jeffery Kern
Dissertation: Sensitive Detection of Novel Effects and Characteristic Signal Structure of Higher Harmonic Detection in Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy, Mohammad Amir Khan
Dissertation: On the Role of Assertions for Conceptual Modeling as Enablers of Composable Simulation Solutions, Robert Dennis King
Dissertation: Test of a Multidisciplinary Health Behavior Model of Medicare Elders' Antihypertensive Acquisitions, Ann Marie Kopitzke
Dissertation: Investigating the Relationship Between an IT Project Manager's Emotional Intelligence and the Customer's Perception of Success, William Jacob LaMarsh II
Dissertation: Emerging Workforce Trends and Issues Impacting the Virginia Community College System, Mary Greer Landon
Thesis: Development of Chemometric Models and Calibration Transfer for Rapid Diesel and Jet Fuel Analysis Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Christopher Matthew Larkin
Thesis: Effects of Low-Temperature Atmospheric Pressure Plasma on Streptococcus Mutans, Margaret Farrer Lemaster
Dissertation: Product Market Competition and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Yen-Chih Liu
Dissertation: Effects of HZE Irradiation on Chemical Neurotransmission in Rodent Hippocampus, Mayumi Machida
Thesis: Bactericidal Effects of Low Temperature Atmospheric Pressure Plasma on Porphyromonas Gingivalis, Arwa Mahasneh
Dissertation: Numerical/Experimental Investigation of Plunge Stage and Effect of Donor Material in Friction Stir Welding, Saptarshi Mandal
Dissertation: Molecular Dynamics Study of Single Stranded Peptide Nucleic Acids, Anna K. Manukyan
Dissertation: Instructional Alignment of Workplace Readiness Skills in Career and Technical Education, Sarah Jane Martin
Dissertation: An Examination of Section 504 in Practice: Dark Days for Student Rights, Ann S. Maydosz
Dissertation: TREE-D-SEEK: A Framework for Retrieving Three-Dimensional Scenes, Saurav Mazumdar
Thesis: Examining Re-Entry Challenges and Needs of Trinidad and Tobago Offenders, Kamhya M. Milan
Dissertation: Transformation Paradox: A Framework for the Analysis of Politics in Enterprise Transformations, Cindy S. Miller
Dissertation: The Impact of Participation or Non-Participation in the Academic Excellence Commitment Area of the NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills Program on the Academic Progress and Graduation Success Rates of Division I Football Teams, Melanie Miller
Dissertation: Counselor Perceptions of Uninsured Clients, Katherine S. Moore
Thesis: A Military Surge in Afghanistan -- Modeling a Focused Security Effort, Brent David Morrow
Dissertation: Technology Education Teacher Supply and Demand in the United States, Johnny J. Moye
Thesis: Like as An Exemplifier: A Description of its Construction and the Relations It Can Mark, Helena L. Osborne
Thesis: Effect of the Herbivorous Channel Clinging Crab (Mithrax Spinosissimus) on Patch Reef Algal Communities in the Florida Keys, Florida (USA), Angela M. Mojica Osorio
Dissertation: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Sonic Boom Mitigation, Isik A. Ozcer
Thesis: Retention and Job Satisfaction Among Local Law Enforcement, Lisa N. Parron
Thesis: Time Valuation of Risk A Delayed-Bang Approach, Abhishek Pathak
Dissertation: Wireless Personal Area Network-Based Assistance for the Visually Impaired, Kurt Matthew Peters
Dissertation: Effects of an Educational and Support Program for Family and Friends of a Substance Abuser, Amanda Jeffrey Platter
Dissertation: A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Students Attending Historically Black or Predominantly White Institutions, Courtney H. Podesta