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 2008
Dissertation: Investigation of (E, 2E) Collisions and Related Phenomena, Jason Manuel Martinez
Thesis: College Students Concern Toward Public Intoxication, Ashley N. Mason
Dissertation: The Impact of the 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Training on Teacher Interaction Practices, Attitudes, and Prosocial Skill Outcomes in Preschool Classrooms, Marie Louise Talayco Masterson
Dissertation: The Influence of Demographic Characteristics, Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Attributes on the Effectiveness of the LADDERS Probation Intervention Program, Terri M. Mathews
Thesis: Is There a Perception of a Glass Ceiling? The Relationship Between Gender and Promotional Opportunities, Cassandra L. Matthews
Dissertation: Exploring Interactions During Multiorganizational Policy Implementation: A Case Study of the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program, Madeleine Wright McNamara
Dissertation: How Personal Nostalgia Influences Giving to Charity, Altaf Merchant
Thesis: Using Agile Software Development Practices in a Research Oriented Distributed Simulation, Douglas James Mielke
Thesis: The Regulation of Endothelial and Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression in the Preglomerular Vessels by the Increase in Intracellular Calcium Concentration, Stephanie Thomas Montgomery
Dissertation: Effect of Outside Employment on Academic Success Among Full-Time Associate Degree Nursing Students, Julian A. Moore
Thesis: The Line in the Sand: Understanding Customer Sexual Harassment Through a Psychological Contract Framework, Valerie J. Morganson
Dissertation: Achievement Motivation in African American College Students, April Michelle Muldrow
Thesis: The Nature of K-12 Teacher Need Through 2050: A Demographic Investigation of the Teacher Shortage Crisis in the United States, Rebecca M. Mullen
Dissertation: Developing a Repeatable and Reliable Methodology to Determine Return-on-Investment, Mark Cullen Nesselrode
Dissertation: Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation of Mono Azo Dye Orange II: Catalyst Selection, Reaction Kinetics, and Modeling, Pinar Ozdural
Dissertation: The Non-Cognitive Attributes of First-Year At-Risk Students Who Are Academically Successful and Retained at Old Dominion University, Tisha M. Paredes
Dissertation: Analysis and Application of Perfectly Matched Layer Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Computational Aeroacoustics, Sarah Anne Parrish
Dissertation: A Program Evaluation of Supplemental Instruction for Developmental Mathematics at a Community College in Virginia, Marilyn Lawson Peacock
Dissertation: The Professional Identity of Counseling Students in Master's Level CACREP Accredited Programs, Bianca Puglia
Dissertation: Biological Networks: Modeling and Structural Analysis, Emad Y. Ramadan
Thesis: Correlates of Marital Success A Homogamy Model, Sarah A. Raper
Dissertation: Cannabinoids: A Novel Treatment Strategy for Retinal Neurodegenerative Disorders, Sandeep Samudre
Thesis: In Vitro Comparison of 360° Unirotational Disposable Prophylaxis Angles Versus 90° Reciprocating Disposable Prophylaxis Angles on Spatter During Rubber Cup Polishing, Kelly Marie Schulz
Thesis: A Phylogeny of the Snappers (Lutjanidae; Percoidei) Inferred from Cytochrome B Sequence Data, Matthew R. Semcheski
Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Metastable Argon and Study of Dual Species Trap Loss in a Rubidium-Metastable Argon MOT, Michael K. Shaffer
Dissertation: Generals in Three-Piece Suits—Contractors in Camouflage: A Critical Assessment of Contractors in Iraq, Wyman E. Shuler III
Dissertation: The Relationship of Teacher Route to Certification to Student Outcomes on Statewide Social Studies Assessment, Aaron L. Smith
Dissertation: Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server, Joan A. Smith
Dissertation: Massive Spatiotemporal Watershed Hydrological Storm Event Response Model (MHSERM) with Time-Lapsed NEXRAD Radar Feed, Changqing Song
Dissertation: Democratic Failure: Tracking the Ebb of Democracy's Flow, 1800–2006, Sanja E. Sray
Dissertation: Examination of a Nomological Network of Team Leadership: A Construct Validation Study, Kari R. Strobel
Dissertation: Real-Time Ultrasound Simulation for Medical Training and Standardized Patient Assessment, Bo Sun
Dissertation: Institutional Conditionality and State Compliance: The Czech and Slovak Accession to NATO and the EU, Eva Svobodova
Thesis: Spatial and Trophic Dynamics of a Macrofaunal Community on a High Energy Intertidal Sandflat, Sharon Ann Tatem
Dissertation: The Impact of Participation in a Virginia Community College Orientation Program Course on Student Engagement, Satisfaction, Academic achievement, and Retention, Wendy L. Tighe
Thesis: Mesoscale Dispersive Flux in the Lower Reaches of the Elizabeth River Estuary, Byron Danrich Tracy
Dissertation: Parallel MPI/FORTRAN Finite Element Symmetrical/Unsymmetrical Domain Decomposition, Siroj Tungkatara
Dissertation: Identifying Determinants of Physical Activity in Maritime Union Members Using the Theory of Planned Behavior, Susan Atkinson Tweed
Thesis: Abuse Behind the Badge Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse in Police Families, Denicia M. Veroza
Thesis: Piano Study and Gender Associations: A Query Into the Perceptions of Children Ages Five to Fourteen, Richard C. Winfree
Dissertation: Gene Therapy Using Tet-Repressor System to Modulate Prostate Tumor Microenvironment, Nazita Yousefieh
Dissertation: Frontal Variability in Drake Passage - A Modeling Study, Bin Zhang
Dissertation: Design of a High-Speed Architecture for Stabilization of Video Captured Under Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions, Ming Zhu Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: The Importance of Gender and Readiness to Change in the Prediction of Drinking and Negative Consequences of First-Year Student Drinkers, Margot E. Ackermann
Dissertation: A Structured Systemic Framework for Software Development, Kevin MacGregor Adams
Dissertation: The Impact of Privatization on Economic Growth and Income Inequality in Developing Countries, Samuel Adams
Dissertation: Essays on Momentum, Autoregressive Returns, and Conditional Volatility: Evidence From the Saudi Stock Market, Abdullah Alsubaie
Dissertation: Geopolitical Rivalry in the Caspian-Caucasus Region and the Dilemma of Interstate Cooperation, Nurettin Altundeger
Thesis: Limb Regeneration After Multiple Autotomy and Coxae Removal in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus, Jennifer Ambler
Dissertation: FreeLib: A Self-Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Digital Library Framework for Evolving Communities, Ashraf A. Amrou
Thesis: Channel Management in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, Mohammad Hadi Arbabi
Dissertation: Measurements of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in -3He(e,e',p,p)n with CLAS, Hovhannes Baghdasaryan
Dissertation: Changes in Formal-Informal Caregiving in Elderly Stroke Survivors, Holly Anne Beard
Thesis: The Bachelor Primetime Construction of Romance, Fairy Tales, and Melodrama, Susan E. Beck
Dissertation: Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Earliness and Tardiness Over a Common Due Date, Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia
Dissertation: Modeling Habitat and Environmental Factors Affecting Mosquito Abundance in Chesapeake, Virginia, Alan Scott Bellows
Thesis: Authoritarianism, Hostility Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Violence, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Aggression, Gina M. Bondi
Dissertation: Uncertainty Assessment in High-Risk Environments Using Probability, Evidence Theory and Expert Judgment Elicitation, Stella Barberis Bondi
Dissertation: Fatigue's Influence on Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance in a Military Simulation of Combat, Carlotta M. Boone
Dissertation: Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition, Chutima Boonthum
Thesis: Condensed and Expanded Sections in the Lower Mesaverde Clastic Wedge, Campanian of Wyoming: Evidence for Tectonic Rectification of Sea Level, Matthew W. Botzler
Dissertation: Assessment of Preliminary Design Approaches for Metallic Stiffened Cylindrical Shell Instability Problems, Vicki Owen Britt
Dissertation: A Technique for Solving the Singular Integral Equations of Potential Theory, Brian George Burns
Dissertation: The A-B Signal Detection Theory Model, Ernesto A. Bustamante
Thesis: Social Disadvantage and Family Violence: Neighborhood Effects on Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence and Corporal Punishment, Deeanna M. Button
Dissertation: An Identity Approach to Understanding Diversity, Inclusion and the Work-Family Interface, Rebekah A. Cardenas
Thesis: Investigating Real-Time Sonar Performance Predictions Using Beowulf Clustering, Charles Lane Cartledge
Dissertation: Analysis of Determinants in Neighborhood Satisfaction Between Defended and Defensible Communities Within the General and Urban Housing Environments, David William Chapman
Thesis: The Effects of Collective Efficacy and Dissatisfaction With Law Enforcement on Neighborhood Crime Rates, Kelly E. Cobb
Thesis: Effects of Five Different Finger Rest Positions on Arm Muscle Activity During Scaling by Dental Hygiene Students, Mary Elizabeth Cosaboom
Dissertation: The Potential Influence of Motivation on the Decision to Stay or Quit the Navy Delayed Entry Program: A Descriptive Analysis, Angela W. Cyrus
Thesis: Duchampian Authenticity and the Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill
Thesis: Dynamic Routing Structure for an RTI Taking an Evolutionary Approach Towards Optimization, Matthew Ryan Davis
Dissertation: Methodology for Analyzing and Characterizing Error Generation in Presence of Autocorrelated Demands in Stochastic Inventory Models, Rafael Diaz
Thesis: Employers Preferences: What Type of Employers Are Hiring Ex-Offenders?, Gia M. Dyke
Dissertation: Foundation Year Field Instruction in a Master of Social Work Program: A Comparison Study of Learning Outcomes for On-Campus and Off-Campus Students, Martha T. Early
Dissertation: Propulsion Enhancement Contributions to the Performance of Space Launch Vehicles, Russell H. Edwards
Dissertation: Judicial Implementation of the Revised Family Code in Addis Ababa, Tassew Shiferaw Gizaw
Thesis: Behavioral Enhancement of Onshore Transport by Postlarval Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus Argus), Jason Seth Goldstein
Thesis: The Effect of Intensity of Aerobic VO2max Resting Heart Rate and Blood Pressure, Shannan Elizabeth Gormley
Thesis: The Depiction of Alcohol Tobacco and Other Substances in Children's G & PG-Rated Animated Films Post 2000, Lindsay F. Graham
Thesis: Simulation to Augment Standardized Patients in Obstetric Ultrasound Training, Scott Richard Guirlinger
Dissertation: Neighborhood Defined Feature Selection Strategy for Improved Face Recognition in Different Sensor Modalitie, Satyanadh Gundimada
Dissertation: Shaken Baby Syndrome: Retinal Hemorrhaging. A Biomechanical Approach to Understanding the Mechanism of Causation, Steven Alex Hans
Dissertation: Revitalizing Deteriorated Urban Neighborhood Real Estate Markets Through Concentrated Homeownership Development: Determining the Spillover Effects of New Homes on the Value of Surrounding Homes, Jerry Michael Hawkins
Dissertation: Self-Assembly and Characterization of Germanium Quantum Dots on Silicon by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mohammed S. Hegazy
Dissertation: The Effect of Nutrition Information on Menu Selection When Eating Food Away From Home, Rebecca Foster Hochradel
Dissertation: Seagrass-Mediated Carbonate Dissolution and Early Diagenesis in Bahamas Bank Sediments, Xinping Hu
Dissertation: Adsorption of Lead (II) Ions by Organosilicate Nanoporous Materials, Larry Keith Isaacs
Dissertation: Prediction of interference Pathloss Inside Commercial Aircraft Using Modulated Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, Madiha Jamil Jafri
Dissertation: The Impact of Intercultural Training on the Satisfaction and Achievement of Undergraduates Taught by International Teaching Assistants, Kirsten Jensen
Dissertation: Down-Regulation of Natural Killer Cell Activation in Response to Influenza Virus in Older Adults, Yu Jing
Dissertation: The Computation of Exact Green's Functions in Acoustic Analogy By a Spectral Collocation Boundary Element Method, Andrea D. Jones
Thesis: Complexity, Fine-Tuning, and Multiple Universes: The Insufficiency of Scientific Theories for Determining Metaphysical Views, Ashley Graham Kennedy
Dissertation: Sonic Boom Focusing Prediction and Delta Wing Shape Optimization for Boom Mitigation Studies, Nitin Khasdeo
Dissertation: Coopetition (Contemporaneous Cooperation and Competition) Among Nonprofit Arts Organizations: The Case of Symphony Orchestras, Theresa A. Kirchner
Dissertation: Using Principles of Momentum Conservation to Develop a Coastal Storm Impulse Scale (COSI), Chris Adam Klentzman
Dissertation: Micro Synthetic Jets as Effective Actuator, Mehti Koklu
Dissertation: Methods of Detecting Differential Item Functioning: A Comparison of Confirmatory Factor Analysis Methods, Jenny Chia Yi Kuang
Thesis: The Plasmodium Falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter, PFCRT, Mediates the Activity of Chloroquine-Resistance Reversal Agents in the Malaria Parasite, Kristin Lane