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 2002
Thesis: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Postmodern Teleological Impasse, Michael P. Tarpey
Dissertation: East European Security Revisited: Institutions, Power, and Security, Blagovest Tashev
Dissertation: Apoptosis Pathways: Presence and significance in Ejaculated Human Spermatozoa, Steven Lewis Taylor
Dissertation: Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Ethnocentrism Across Russia's Three Sub-Cultures, Shawn Thelen
Dissertation: Complementarity of Politics and Administration: An Empirical Examination, Jothi S. Themozhi
Thesis: Determination of Nuclear Factor-Kappa B Activation in Cultured Renal Epithelial Cells and Cardiac Myocytes Exposed to Cocaine and Morphine, David Angeles Tiangco
Thesis: The Normative Structures Guiding Surfers' Perceptions About the Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of Environmental Behavior and Environmental Concern, Jeffrey G. Toussaint
Dissertation: A Study of Professional Development School Program Graduates Through Their First Year as Urban School Teachers, Amy J. Vereen
Thesis: The Development of an Enterprise Supply Chain Model for Naval Warship Construction, Rex A. Wallen
Thesis: Summer Vertical Phytoplankton Distribution in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Mollie Jill Weinstein
Dissertation: The Effects of Technology on Urban High School Students' Sense of Classroom Community, Mervyn J. Wighting
Dissertation: Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA): Immunoassay Development and Characterization of Transcriptional Regulation, Zhen Xiao
Dissertation: Active and Adaptive Flow Control of Twin-Tail Buffet and Applications, Zhi Yang
Dissertation: Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron, Junho Yun
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Finite Element Analysis and Active Control for Nonlinear Flutter of Composite Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow, Khaled Abdel-Motagaly
Dissertation: Optimal Aeroelastic Vehicle Sensor Placement for Root Migration Flight Control Applications, Abdul Ghafoor Al-Shenhabi
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Study Examining the Stability of Occupational Stressors Identified by Nursing Home Administrators, Gay Lynne Andrucci-Armstrong
Dissertation: Detection of Aneuploidy for Chromosomes 7 and 8 Using Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in Patients with Aplastic Anemia and Sequencing of the Mitotic Checkpoint Gene hBUB1, Laura Jane Aridgides
Dissertation: In Support of a Rationally Managed Fishery: Age and Growth in Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), Julian R. Ashford
Thesis: Beneath the Black and Blue: The Child Abuse-Delinquency Connection, Heather M. Baltodano
Dissertation: Effects of Organizational Climate, Feedback-Seeking Environment and Innovation Characteristics on the Implementation of a 360-Degree Feedback System, Simon Alan Bartle
Dissertation: A Study of the Effects of Constructivist Based vs. Traditional Direct Instruction on 8th Grade Science Comprehension, Clair T. Berube
Thesis: The Distribution of Airborne Coal Dust in Soil Profiles of Norfolk, VA and Its Implication for Arsenic Loading to These Soils, William Joseph Bounds
Dissertation: The Effects of the Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) Program on the Reading Achievement of At-Risk 4th and 5th Grade Elementary Students, Kelvin L. Bradley
Thesis: The Effects of Four Gymnastics Skills on Vertebral Column Hyperextension in Young Female Gymnasts, Tonia McClure Burke
Dissertation: Transverse Variability of the Flow and Density in Inlets of Southern Chile, Mario Arturo Cáceres Muñoz
Thesis: Investigations into the Innate Resistance of the Tick, Dermacentor variabilis, When Challenged with the Bacterium, Escherichia coli, Shane Michael Ceraul
Dissertation: A Study of the Factors That Impact Female Military Beneficiaries Obtaining Preventive Health Services, Cynthia Andrea Chargois
Dissertation: Trichodesmium spp.: Numerical Studies of Resource Competition, Carbohydrate Ballasting, and Remote-Sensing Reflectance, Tonya Denise Clayton
Dissertation: Characterization of Murine Cytomegalovirus m142 and m143 Essential Gene Products, Bridget Linette Dalton
Dissertation: Estrogen Regulation of the Pregnant Baboon Placental 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase (11β-HSD)-Catalyzed Metabolism of Cortisol and Cortisone and Its Effect on the Development of the Fetal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, William Adair Davies
Dissertation: Nonlinear Response and Fatigue Estimation of Surface Panels to White and Non-White Gaussian Random Excitations, Jean-Michel Dhainaut
Dissertation: External Memory Algorithms for Factoring Sparse Matrices, Florin Dobrian
Thesis: The Effects of Occupational Ultrasonic Noise Exposure on Hearing in Dental Hygienists: A Pilot Study, Jennifer S. Dunning
Dissertation: Perceptual Cues and Subjective Organization in a Virtual Information Workspace, Todd M. Eischeid
Thesis: Unsteady Flow Model for an Irrigation Canal Network, Talaat Taher El Gamel
Dissertation: A Health System Analysis Approach to Health Outcomes in Medicare Clients With Chronic Illnesses, Christine A. Elnitsky
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Propeller Slipstream on the Behavior of Boundary Layers at Low Reynolds Number, Ehab A. Elsaadawy
Dissertation: Investigating the Effect of the International Stock Indexes on the United States Stock Index Futures, Zehlha Illhan Ertuna
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Academic Self-Concept and the Achievement Expectancies on the Academic Achievement and Persistence Rate of African-American Freshmen Students, Ira Falls III
Dissertation: Coastal Ocean Morphodynamics and the Resulting Erosion and Deposition: An Analytical Approach, Shejun Fan
Dissertation: Understanding the Digital Divide As It Relates to Electronic Commerce, Franklin D. Gaillard
Thesis: An Evaluation of Washington State's First-Time Offender Waiver (FTOW), Marianne Galgon
Dissertation: Stress and Coping Experiences of Women in Transition: From Welfare to Work, William Jesse Gill
Dissertation: An Analysis of the Changes in the Proportional Distribution of Poverty Between Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Their Central Cities, Billy W. Godair
Dissertation: A History of Public Radio in an Urban Community: Its Impact Upon Education, Culture, Public Opinion and Policy, Barry K. Graham
Thesis: Institutionalized Discrimination and Sectarianism in Northern Ireland, Darlene E. Hall
Dissertation: An Integrated Risk Analysis Methodology in a Multidisciplinary Design Environment, Katrina R. Hampton
Thesis: The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on Short-Term Fine Root Dynamics in a Barrier Island Dune Community, John Walter Hutton
Dissertation: New Sequential and Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Incomplete Factor Preconditioning, David A. Hysom
Dissertation: Regulation of the HCMV UL98 Promoter by Cooperation of the Cyclic AMP Response Element and Gamma Interferon Response Element, Tabmitha Patricia Young Jervey
Dissertation: Measurement of Virtual Compton Scattering Below Pion Threshold at Invariant Four-Momentum Transfer Squared Q²=1.(GEV/C)², Christopher Jutier
Dissertation: Corporate Investment Activity, Industrial and Global Diversification and Internal Capital Markets, Ozgur Berk Kan
Dissertation: Interactions Among Murine Cytomegalovirus US22 Family Gene Products That Influence Viral Pathogenesis, Zaruhi Karabekian
Dissertation: Urban Terrorism: Strategies for Mitigating Terrorist Attacks Against the Domestic Urban Environment, John J. Kiefer
Thesis: Theology, Tradition, and Turbulent Times: Ordination of Women in the Lutheran Church, 1970, Donna L. Koch
Dissertation: Coherent Differential Absorption Lidar for Combined Measurement of Wind and Trace Atmospheric Gases, Grady James Koch
Thesis: Seasonal Phytoplankton Assemblages of Five Ephemeral Ponds in York County, Virginia, Michelle R. Kokolis
Dissertation: Towards a Strategy-Balanced Measure of Business Performance: Conceptualization and Empirical Examination With the Market Orientation Construct, David William Lambert
Dissertation: Globalization and the Paradox of Incorporation and Marginalization: An Exploratory Note on Sub-Saharan Africa, Charles R. Lartey
Thesis: The Role of the Internet in Chinese Foreign and Domestic Affairs, Jean Bowman Leedy
Dissertation: Characterization of the Biological Activities of Recombinant Fusion Protein Green Fluorescent Protein/Human Zona Pellucida Protein 3 (GFP/HZP3), Zhiyong Lin
Dissertation: Ensemble Monte Carlo Based Simulation Analysis of GaN HEMTs for High-Power Microwave Device Applications, Tao Li
Thesis: Caste, Desire, and the Representation of the Gendered Other in U. R. Ananthamurthy's “Samskara,” “Ghatashraddha,” and “Akkayya”, Krishna Manavalli
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Workplace Absenteeism and Alcohol Use: A Day-to-Day Examination, Susan Kay McFarlin
Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Quiescent Solar Prominences, Iain McKaig
Dissertation: Characterization of the Human Cytomegalovirus UL75 Late Gene Promoter, Bernard J. P. McWatters
Dissertation: A Software Reliability Model Combining Representative and Directed Testing, Brian Michael Mitchell
Dissertation: Strategy Implementation Effectiveness in a Nonprofit Environment: The Case of Museum Stores, Sandra A. Mottner
Thesis: A Comparison of Phytoplankton Communities in Lake Prince and the Western Branch Reservoir, Suffolk, Virginia, Cara Marie Muscio
Dissertation: Post Doi Moi Urban Higher Education in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: The Case of Hong Duc University, Jeanne Beth Natali
Dissertation: Controlling Adult Oriented Businesses in Norfolk, Virginia, 1943–1998: A Descriptive Case Study, Janet Gail Nicula
Dissertation: Market Orientation: Towards an Understanding in Developing Marketplaces of South America, Howard Warren Olsen
Thesis: Morphostatic Long-Term Hypsometric Analysis of Coastal Bay Environments: Hog Island Bay, Virginia, Kathleen Marie Overman
Thesis: Effects of Human Disturbances on the Behavior of Dabbling Ducks, Melissa Lynn Pease
Dissertation: Radiative Interactions in Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Expanding Flows, Srikanth B. Pidugu
Dissertation: The Validation of a Detailed Strategic Planning Process Model for the Implementation of Distance Education in Higher Education, Kenneth Phillip Pisel Jr.
Dissertation: Adsorption of Inorganic and Organic Ligands Onto Aluminum Hydroxide and Its Effect in Water Treatment, Peter Pommerenk
Dissertation: The Regional Public-Private Civic Infrastructure of Hampton Roads and Its Impact on the Implementation of Economic Development Initiatives, James Andrew Probsdorfer
Dissertation: On Multifunctional Collaborative Methods in Engineering Science, Jonathan B. Ransom Sr.
Thesis: Simulation Optimization Studies of Routing and Process Flow Problems, Satish Ravichandran
Dissertation: Tidal and Subtidal Lateral Structures of Density and Velocity in the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Austreberto Cristobal Reyes-Hernandez
Thesis: Effects of Hormonal Changes Throughout the Menstrual Cycle on Joint Laxity in Females, John C. Roberts
Dissertation: The Implications of the Target-Area Hypothesis on the Population Dynamics of the Spotted Spiny Lobster, Panulirus guttatus, Denice N. Robertson
Thesis: Fine Root Dynamics in Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) Wetlands: Patterns of Ecosystem Development in Natural and Restoration Settings, Harvey LeRoy Rodgers
Thesis: A Scanning Electron Microscopy Comparison of the Effects of the Arkansas Stone and the Ida-Hone Ceramic Stone on Curet Sharpness and Root Smoothness, Marian Gayle Rubino
Dissertation: An Examinaton of the Enhanced Primary Care Model for the Organization of Team Care in Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Elderly Population, Carolyn Morcom Rutledge
Dissertation: Elastic Properties, Strength and Damage Tolerance of Pultruded Composites, Mrinal Chandra Saha
Thesis: Hydrographic Variability on Decadal and Interdecadal Scales in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, Nandita Sarkar
Dissertation: Evaluation of a Distance Learning Program for the Preparation of Special Education Teachers, Tami Seifert
Thesis: SPICE-Based Heat Transport Model for Non-Intrusive Thermal Diagnostic Applications, Michael Stelzer
Thesis: Determination of the Impact of a Human Capital Decision Cost Model on the Economic Performance Measures of a Technical Services Company, Jeffery A. Temple
Thesis: The Synod of Dordrecht 1618-1619. The Influence of Calvinism on the Development of Freedom in the Netherlands in the Period 1560-1630, Joseph A. van Burik
Dissertation: Measurement of the gπNN(t) Form Factor, Kelly Gene Vansyoc
Dissertation: Barrier to Utilization of Primary Healthcare Resources in Children Two Years of Age and Under, Ruth A. Waibel
Dissertation: Systematics of the Subterranean Amphipod Genus Stygobromus (Crangonyctidae) in Western North America, With Emphasis on Species of the Hubbsi Group, Daqing Wang
Dissertation: A Substructuring Technique With Application to Spot Weld Placement Design, Yang Wang
Dissertation: Methods of Detecting Differential Item Functioning: A Comparison of Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Ratchaneewan Wanichtanom
Thesis: Positive Regulation of PKA on Human Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (hGnRH) Gene Expression in Human Placental JEG-3 Cells, Zhaoyang Wen
Dissertation: Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction Studies of Phase Transitions at Low-Index Germanium Surfaces, Xinglin Zeng