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 2010
Thesis: Examining the Dual Process Model of Decision Making in Visual Threat Detection and Human-Automation Interaction, Patricia Chin Brennan
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
Thesis: The Impeding Role of Initial Unrealistic Goal-Setting on Training Performance: Identifying Underpinning Self-Regulatory Processes and Solutions, Robert C. Brusso
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: Estimation and Management of Observation Time for Low Earth Orbit Satellite, Serdar Cagirdar
Thesis: Embedding GPS Data into Speech Signal, Kagan Can
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
Thesis: A Grant Proposal for an Art Therapy Open Studio for the Homeless Population of Hampton Roads, Virginia, Jessica Renée Chevalier
Dissertation: Graduate Students' Self Assessment of competency in Grief Education and Training in Core Accredited Rehabilitation Counseling Programs, Richard Jude Cicchetti
Thesis: Weight Stigma Consciousness and the Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors: The Stigma of Obesity in America, Eric J. Clayton
Thesis: Bonfire Night and Other Stories, Leslie Clements
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: Optimization of the ODU Maglev System Ridership Performance, Eric Salvador M. De Leon
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
Thesis: A Proposal for an Art Therapy Intervention for the Reduction of Dementia Caregiver Stress, Eileen Douglas
Thesis: I Have to Tell You Something, Edmund E. Dowe
Thesis: What Ties Me to Blue Mountains, Deborah Lynne Downs
Thesis: Predicting Speeding in Young Adults: Expanding the Focus of Problem-Behavior Theory, Jenny E. Dozier
Thesis: A Novel Digital Audio Watermarking Approach by Embedding Coefficients in Discrete Cosine Transform Domain, Erol Duymaz
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
Thesis: Art Therapy Support Group for Siblings of Children with Autism, Christine McCann Giardina
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
Thesis: A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Optimized Routing, Pavithra Gudur
Thesis: Repeating Ground Track Design for Low Earth Orbit Satellite, Gurkan Gurdal
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
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
Thesis: An Art-Based Self-Study of Immersion in Amish Culture: Implications for Art Therapists, Alison R. Hunt
Thesis: Multi-Element Airfoil Optimization Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Mustafa Kubilay Ictuzer
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
Thesis: A Novel Piezoelectric Device with Dual Functions of Studying Biological Soft Tissues, Avin A. Jamadagni
Thesis: Electric Field Analysis in Insulating Films for Complex Electrode Systems, Anusha Jambula
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: Development and Validation of a Measure: Preventive Coping with Work-Family Conflict, Meghan P. 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
Thesis: The Gender Representation of Ph.D. Departments in Sociology: A Comparative Analysis of Top 30 Ranked and Bottom 30 Ranked Departments in 1992 and 2002, Green Kim
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
Thesis: Art Therapy and Anorexia: A Heuristic Self-Study from Treatment to Career, Katie Kiskinis
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Exploration of School Counselors' Conceptualization and Implementation of Multicultural Competence, Jasmine Knight
Thesis: Modeling and Analysis of Low Earth Orbit Satellite and Ground Station Data Exchange Topology, Ersin Kocoglu
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
Thesis: Coping with Work-Life Conflict: Antecedents to Seeking Policy-Based and Individually Negotiated Accommodations, Heather M. Lauzun
Thesis: The Effect of Art Therapy on the Working Memory of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Kelly N. Lee
Dissertation: Questions of Transfer: Writers' Perspective on Familiar/Unfamiliar Writing tasks in a Capstone Writing Course, Heather G. Lettner-Rust
Thesis: The Executable Command in Support of Scheduled Subroutine Calls, Andrew Scott Lewis
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
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
Thesis: The Effects of Two Types of Fatigue on an Unanticipated Side-Step Cutting Task as Measured by Kinematic and Kinetic Variables, Shawn E. Lucci
Thesis: Using Micro-Simulation to Evaluate Transit Signal Priority for LRT Operations in A Downtown Environment, Faisal Mahmud