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 2013
Thesis: The Residual Resistance of the Individual Within the Rhizomatic Hegemony of the Internet, Emma Katherine Wolfe
Thesis: American Exceptionalism and the Historical Fiction of Chabon and DeLillo: Media Identity Commodification and the Truth of Lies, Samm Yeakel
Thesis: Large-Scale Incidents Modeling and Network Simulation, Yichi Zhang
Dissertation: Thermo-Elasto-Plastic Behavior of Biaxially Loaded Steel Beam-Columns Inducing Those From World Trade Center Towers, Yanhong Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Performance Optimization Over Wireless Links With Operating Constraints, Shiny Abraham
Dissertation: Evaluation of Hydraulic Conductivity of Non Aqueous Phase Liquids in Partially Saturated Soils, Chijioke Ekeleme Akamiro
Thesis: Dynamics of Non-Thermal Plasma Jets Under Variable Pressure, Mehmet Arda Akman
Dissertation: Numerical Study of the Performance of a Model Scramjet Engine, Ayad Alhumadi
Dissertation: De Novo Protein Structure Modeling from Cryoem Data Through a Dynamic Programming Algorithm in the Secondary Structure Topology Graph, Kamal H. Al Nasr
Thesis: Integrating Probe Vehicles and Stationary Detector Data to Construct Accurate Cumulative Curves to Study Bottlenecks, Khairul Azfi Anuar
Dissertation: Incorporating Memory and Learning Mechanisms Into Meta-RaPS, Arif Arin
Thesis: Using Decision-Making Techniques in Support of Simulation Training Transfer Selections, Jane Taylor Bachman
Dissertation: Preservice Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs: A Study of Student and Course Characteristics, Peter B. Baker
Dissertation: Factors That Influence Nonadherence Outpatient Medical Follow-Up by African Americans with HIV/AIDS at an Outpatient Infectious Disease Clinic, Cynthia Burrell Banks
Dissertation: Molecular Dynamics Studies on Nanoscale Gas Transport, Murat Barisik
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Women in Leadership and Community at Old Dominion University From 1970 to 1990, Ann E. Wendle Barnes
Dissertation: Effects that Previous Employment Experiences Had on Organizational Commitment of an Hourly Workforce, Charles August Bartocci
Dissertation: The Experiences of Women in a U.S. Department of Education School Leadership Preparation Cohort Program: A Case Study, Darra KaTrina Belle
Dissertation: Counselor Beliefs and Perceived Knowledge Regarding Clients with Learning Disabilities, Tamekia R. Bell
Dissertation: Real-Time Virtual Pathology Using Signal Analysis and Synthesis, Dennis L. Bergin
Dissertation: A Mixed Methods Study of Special Education Teachers' Knowledge of Reading Instruction and Perceptions Concerning Their Preparation to Teach Reading, Cynthia Darden Blakeslee
Thesis: The Stories Teeth Can Tell, Emily Lindsey Bonner
Dissertation: Competencies Required of Human Resource Professionals in the Government Contracting Industry, Dawn Denise Boyer
Dissertation: The Effects of Personalized Boosters for a Computerized Intervention Targeting College Student Drinking, Abby L. Braitman
Thesis: Optimizing Chronic Slow Breathing Training to Cause a Therapeutic Effect on Heart Rate Variability, Jennifer Joy Brown
Dissertation: An Examination of Middle Manager Innovation Behaviors and Institutional Factors Impact on Organizational Innovation in the USA and Mexico, J. Lee Brown III
Dissertation: Assessing Resiliency and Sustainability in an Intelligence Infrastructure System, Shelly Dawn Bumphus
Thesis: There's a Reason One Thing Always Leads to Something More, Tara Shea Burke
Thesis: Near Earth Asteroid Mission Design for 2000 SG344, Gökhan Çahşkan
Thesis: The Effects of Task Experience and Learner Control on Time and Learning in Training, Rachel C. Callan
Dissertation: Synergistic Effect of Subnanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields and Temperature on the Viability of Biological Cells, James Thomas Camp
Dissertation: Single and Double Spin Asymmetries for Pion Electro-Production From the Deuteron in the Resonance Region, Sharon L. Careccia
Dissertation: Large-Eddy Simulation of Axially-Rotating, Turbulent Pipe and Particle-laden Swirling Jet Flows, Nicolas D. Castro
Thesis: Developments in the Global Energy Markets and Constructing the Future of the Persian Gulf Security, Nihat Cengel
Thesis: Satisfaction With Police: Explaining Variation by Race, Megan N. Centeno
Dissertation: Nano- and Micro-Second Electrical Pulsing of B16-F10 Mouse Melanoma Cells: Plasma Membrane and Sub-Cellular Organelle Changes, Yiling Chen
Thesis: Hungry Heart, Valarie Clark
Dissertation: Prompting Self-Monitoring of Learning in Self-Paced Computer Based Training: The Effect on Self-Regulation and Learning, Christopher J. Coburn
Dissertation: Measurement System Characterization in the Presence of Measurement Errors, Sean A. Como
Dissertation: Evaluating Network Analysis and Agent Based Modeling for Investigating the Stability of Commercial Air Carrier Schedules, Sheila Ruth Conway
Dissertation: Emotion Management Skills of School-Age Children in the Context of Risk: The Role of Parent Socialization Strategies, Carla Damiani Correia
Thesis: Guardians of the Countryside Public Choice Theory and the Farm Lobby in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, Amy J. Costa
Thesis: Dynamic Model of Sailors Descending A Navy Ship Ladder, Jonathan Coulter
Dissertation: Sifting the Commonplace: Topoi and the Grounds for Argument in Classical and Modern Rhetoric, Daniel Verlo Cutshaw
Thesis: East, West, or Center? Turkey's Stance Straddling Continents, Pipelines, and Interdependences, Mustafa Kemal Dagdelen
Dissertation: An Investigation into the Relationship Between an Engineering Manager's Purpose-Seeking Beliefs and Behaviors and the Engineering Manager's Perception of Employee Creativity, Initiative and Purpose-Seeking Behavior, Charles Burton Daniels
Thesis: Numerical Analysis and Design Optimization of Organic Bulk Hetero-Junction Solar Cells Using the Mixed Finite Element and Arc-Length Methods, James L. Dean
Dissertation: International Competition for Satellite-Based Navigation System Services, Robert F. Donnelly
Thesis: V/R, John-Henry Doucette
Dissertation: The Effects of Combat Exposure on Post-Deployment Coping Deficits in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans, Alex Emerson Dryden
Dissertation: The Nature and Role of Physical Models in Enhancing Sixth Grade Students' Mental Models of Groundwater and Groundwater Processes, Debra Lynne Foster Duffy
Dissertation: The Impact of Teacher Licensure Programs on Minority Student Achievement, Rose S. Duke
Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Reverse Mergers and Bond ETF Mispricing, Charles William Duval
Thesis: Securing South Africa's Future Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS as a Model for Social Development Change, Savannah Lynn Eck
Dissertation: Intimate Partner Physical Violence Against Women in Saudi Arabian Primary Healthcare Clinics, Halah M. Eldoseri
Dissertation: FRIEND: A Cyber-Physical System for Traffic Flow Related Information Aggregation and Dissemination, Samy S. El-Tawab
Thesis: My Friend Glenn, Travis A. Everett
Dissertation: The Effects of an Online Sleep Hygiene Intervention on Students' Sleep Quality, Giuliana Farias
Dissertation: An Examination of Factors Affecting Non-Urgent Use of Emergency Department Services by Patients with "Universal" Healthcare, Gregory Smith Feltenberger
Dissertation: Multi-Term Approximation to the Boltzmann Transport Equation for Electron Energy Distribution Functions in Nitrogen, Yue Feng
Thesis: Population Structure and Connectivity of an Important Pelagic Forage Fish in the Antarctic Ecosystem, Pleuragramma antarcticum in Relation to Large Scale Circulation, Jason W. Ferguson
Thesis: Policy-Making under Evo Morales: Explaining Ethnopopulist Redistributive Measures in Bolivia, Luis Ferreira
Thesis: Modification and Application of a Turbulence Response Analysis Method for Flexible Aircraft Configurations, Christie Jeanne Funk
Thesis: Ecology of Tenodera Sinensis and Tenodera Angustipennis (Mantodea: Mantidae) in Eastern Virginia, Cory A. Gall
Thesis: The Forgotten Sixty-Ninth: The Sixty-Ninth New York National Guard Artillery Regiment in the American Civil War, Christopher M. Garcia
Dissertation: “This Intense Desire to Know the World”: Factors Influencing the Selection of Multicultural Children's Literature, Kasey L. Garrison
Dissertation: Towards Managing and Understanding the Risk of Underwater Terrorism, Richard J. Gay
Dissertation: An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Effective Use of Knowledge Management in Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Operations, Umit Gencer
Thesis: A New Phase Speciation Leaching Procedure for the Determination of Metals in Oxic and Anoxic Sediments, Brandon R. Gipson
Thesis: A Design of Experiments Approach to Visor Drag Reduction on Heavy Vehicles Using Wind Tunnel Testing, Adam Golembeski
Thesis: The Factors Behind a Successful Implementation of Electronic Health Records Systems, Anjee Gorkhali
Thesis: Yearn, Jennifer Lynn Graham
Thesis: Thresholds of Change in Decomposition Rate Along a Dune/Swale Transect on a Virginia Barrier Island, Dominic J. Graziani
Dissertation: The Influence of Interlimb Differences on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk Factors in Female Collegiate Soccer Athletes, Eric Kevin Greska
Dissertation: Alternative Therapy and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Carmine R. Grieco
Dissertation: Textualizing the Nation: The Sociopolitical Negotiation of Atatürk's Nutuk, and Visions of National Identity in Contemporary Turkey, Elif Guler
Thesis: Earth Observation Time Estimates Using Curve Fitted Perturbed Orbit Tracks, Taner Gundogdu
Dissertation: Using the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms - 34 (CCAPS-34) to Predict Premature Termination in a College Counseling Sample, Sean B. Hall
Dissertation: Establishing Relationships Between Risk Management and Knowledge Transfer, Garrett S. Haltiwanger
Dissertation: The Development and Validation of the Preference for Adherence to Theoretical Orientation Scale, Tiffinee S. Hamilton
Dissertation: Factors Impacting Counselor Competency When Counseling Sexual Minority Intimate Partner Violence Victims, Ryan Hancock
Dissertation: Green Student Centers' Influence on the Campus Environment, Krista L. Harrell
Dissertation: Academic Predictors of Online Course Success in the Community College, Christy D. Hawkins
Dissertation: Do international Corruption Metrics Matter? Assessing the Impact of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, Omar Elemere Hawthorne
Dissertation: Adult Learner Graduation Rates at Four U.S. Community Colleges By Prior Learning Assessment Status and Method, Milan S. Hayward
Dissertation: The Use of Non-Cognitives and Learning Strategies as a Predictor for Completion of Developmental Mathematics at a Community College, Megan Healy
Dissertation: Spectroscopic Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter: Insights into Composition, Photochemical Transformation and Carbon Cycling, John Robert Helms
Dissertation: Risk Quadruplet: Integrating Assessments of Threat, Vulnerability, Consequence, and Perception for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense, Kara Norman Hill
Dissertation: All Is Fair in War---Violent Conflict and the Securitization of Rape, Sabine Hirschauer
Dissertation: Optimization Framework for a Radio Frequency Gun Based Injector, Alicia S. Hofler
Dissertation: Partitioning Method for Emergent Behavior Systems Modeled by Agent-Based Simulations, O. Thomas Holland
Dissertation: Assessing Movement of Fish Through Spectral Analysis of Otolith Life History Scans, Renee Reilly Hoover
Thesis: Digital Poetry From a Cyborg Perspective, Daniel James Hosmer
Thesis: Fault Detection System for Solar Tracking Applications, Hareen Sekhar Illa
Thesis: Nonthermal Plasma Jet Efficacy on Candida Kefyr, Amber Marie Mattson Jackson
Dissertation: A Statistical Model to Determine Multiple Binding Sites of a Transcription Factor on DNA Using ChIP-seq Data, Rasika Jayatillake
Dissertation: Investigating the Roles of Time Perspective and Emerging Adulthood in Predicting Driving Behavior, Kristie L. Johnson
Dissertation: Treatment of Aortic Heart Valve Conduit with Glutamine and Heat Shock as a Means to Deter the Constituent Cellular Population From Becoming Apoptotic, Alyce Marie Linthurst Jones
Thesis: Clearing Paths for Emergency Vehicles Using Shock Wave Theory and Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication, Craig Austin Jordan
Dissertation: Efficient Stand-Alone Generalized Inverse Algorithms and Software for Engineering/Sciences Applications: Research and Education, Subhash Chandra Bose S V Kadiam