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: An Examination of the Psychosocial Functioning of Children with Drug or Alcohol Dependent Fathers, Cathy G. Cooke
Thesis: The Effects of Visual Cues and Interstimulus Interval on Error Rates in Auditory Localization and Detection, Joseph Thomas Coyne
Dissertation: Decomposition Dynamics in Restored and Naturally Recovering Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) Wetlands, Edward Ratcliffe Crawford
Thesis: Evaluation of Distributed Effects in Field Effect Transistors for High Frequency Applications, Srinivas Rowjee Cuddapah
Dissertation: Decomposition of Carbon Dioxide in a Capacitively Coupled Radio Frequency Discharge, Thao Hoang Dinh
Dissertation: The Transfer Promise: An Investigation of Impediments to Academic Success and Persistence in a Mid-Sized Urban University, Mary H. Duggan
Thesis: Fueling and Fortifying the Foundational Machinery: Religious Necessity and Enlightened Republicanism in America's Founding, Jennifer L. Dyar
Dissertation: Development of an Efficient Ti:Sapphire Laser Transmitter for Atmospheric Ozone Lidar Measurements, Khaled A. Elsayed
Dissertation: Video Indexing and Retrieval Techniques Using Novel Approaches to Video Segmentation, Characterization, and Similarity Matching, Waleed Ezzat Farag
Thesis: The Effects of Communication Modality on Teamwork Processes, Thomas D. Fletcher
Thesis: Histological Evaluation of Cryopreserved Ovaries in Autologous Abdominal Transplant to Naïve, Outbred, CD1, Mice, Wentia Elissa Ford
Thesis: Relationship Between Behavioral Measures in a Driving Simulator and EEG Activity on Day-Shift and Night-Shift Workers, Jennifer L. Freeman
Dissertation: Organizational Climate and Commitment: A Case Study of an Urban Nonprofit Organization, William Sawyer Grant
Thesis: Chipping Away at the Gendered Wall Implications for Being a Woman Sociologist, Rebecca Fogerty Grove
Thesis: Study of Transport Properties of InAs Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Satyanadh Gundimada
Thesis: Perceived Paternal Style and Its Relationship to the Child's Explanatory Style and Depression, Janice E. Halecki
Thesis: Predicting Team Performance Over Time: A Secondary Data Analysis, Hope S. Hanner
Dissertation: Creating Inclusive Organizations: Its Meaning and Measurement, Bryan Christopher Hayes
Thesis: Reflection-High Energy Electron Diffraction Study of Si(100) Homoepitaxy by Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mohammed S. Hegazy
Thesis: Fine Root Vitality and Its Application in a Minirhizotron Study of a CO2 Enrichment in a Florida Scrub Oak Ecosystem, Brandon Todd Herbert
Thesis: Long Term Residual Effects of a Nutrient Addition on a Barrier Island Dune Ecosystem, Susan M. Heyel
Thesis: The Effects of a 10-Week Exercise Program on Physiological Variables and Quality of Life in Type 2 Diabetes, David Robb Holton
Thesis: Recruitment Variability of Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonia undulatus, With Observations on Environmental Factors, Sumalee Hoskin
Thesis: Crossing the Line: Juvenile Transfer and Prison Violence, Jessica M. Huffman
Thesis: Embedded Software Programming to Develop a Command Line User Interface for Monitoring and Debugging a Manually Driven Gas Regulator Control System, Syed N. Hyder
Dissertation: Study of Non-Equilibrium Electron Dynamics in Metals, Wael Mohamed Gomaa Ibrahim
Dissertation: Robust Face Representation and Recognition Under Low Resolution and Difficult Lighting Conditions, Mohammad Moinul Islam
Thesis: Vertical Distributions of Zooplankton at the Mouth of Chesapeake Bay and Calibration of Backscatter From an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, Arthur Keith Jenkins
Thesis: The Effects of Test Validity Perceptions on Ethnic Group Differences in Cognitive Ability Test Performance, Florence R. Jinadu
Dissertation: Mass Transfer Reactions and Decay Sinks for Disinfectants in Water Distribution Systems, Jeremy B. Jones
Dissertation: Geometric Integrators for Hamiltonian PDEs, Dmitry Karpeev
Thesis: Yet Another Algorithm for Pitch Tracking (YAAPT), Kavita Kasi
Dissertation: Performance Modeling and Prediction for the Scalable Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Unstructured Grids, Dinesh Kumar Kaushik
Thesis: Approaching High Fidelity Human Tracking and Representation in Interactive Virtual Environments, Taimur K. Khan
Thesis: Invisible Men in Family Planning: Determinants of Men's Unmet Need in Bangladesh, Mahmuda Khatun
Dissertation: Generic Cost Estimation Framework for Design and Manufacturing Evaluation, Uday A. Kilkami
Thesis: Association of 3D Visualization with Discrete Event Simulation, Krishna Chaitanya Kunam
Dissertation: Institutional Investors and ADRs: Three Essays, Deqing Li
Dissertation: Federating Heterogeneous Digital Libraries by Metadata Harvesting, Xiaoming Liu
Dissertation: A Conceptual Design Tool for Engineers: An Amalgamation of Theory of Constraints, Theory of Inventive Problem Solving and Logic, Stephen R. Luke
Thesis: Object-Oriented Architecture for Concurrent Processes in a Port Simulation, Reejo Mathew
Thesis: Major Factors That Influence the Employment Decisions of Generation X Consulting Engineers, Robert William Mayfield
Thesis: Support for Statistical Analysis of the Configurable Port Simulation (CportS), Saurav Mazumdar
Dissertation: Modeling the Biogeochemical Cycle of Selenium in the San Francisco Bay, Shannon L. Meseck
Dissertation: Sources of Inter-State Alignments: Internal Threats and Economic Dependence in the Former Soviet Union, Eric A. Miller
Thesis: Styrene Monomer Solubility in Artificial and Natural Seawaters of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Eric Joseph Miller
Dissertation: Deception in Advertising: A Content Analysis of the Legal Parameters of Deception, E. Carla Mitchell
Thesis: Sea Level Slopes and Volume Fluxes Produced by Atmosphere Forcing in Chesapeake Bay, David Salas Monreal
Dissertation: A Formal Object Model for Layered Networks to Support Verification and Simulation, Rasha M. B. E. Morsi
Dissertation: Excimer Emission From Pulsed Microhollow Cathode Discharges, Mohamed Moselhy
Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of Two Course Delivery Models Through the Telequiz Protocol, a Study of Web-Based Distance Assessment Modalities, Patrick Michael O'Shea
Thesis: Phase-Sensitive Detection Electronics for Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Experiments, Tyrone Pate
Thesis: A Comparison of the Learning Styles of Graduate Athletic Training Students and Their Demographic Characteristics, Jennifer Lynn Plant
Dissertation: Depression and Social Support as Moderators of Withon-Person Relationships Between Daily Events and Daily Adjustments During Adolescence, Rebecca M. Plesko
Thesis: A Multilevel Neural Network Architecture for Digital Implementation of a Face Recognition System Based on Eigenface Approach, Linda Rajan
Dissertation: Nearly Balanced and Resolvable Block Designs, Brian Henry Reck
Dissertation: Anting Behavior in Birds: Ant Selection and Effect of ant Chemistry on Feather Ectoparasites, Hannah Carrington Revis
Dissertation: Involvement of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, PDGF Receptor Signaling, Focal Adhesion Kinase and SRC in Pressure-Induced Vascular Smooth Muscle Hypertrophy, Darian Clark Rice
Thesis: The Effect of a Predator Gradient on Female Oviposition Site Selection and Larval Performance, Josef F. Rieger
Thesis: Analysis of Error Recovery Effects on Digital Flight Control Systems, Arturo Tejada Ruiz
Dissertation: Aligning Hierarchical Goals in an Organization: The Path From Training to Performance, Jeanette Denise Selby-Lucas
Thesis: Recurrent Neural Networks and Algorithms for Reconstruction of Images from Noisy and/or Partial Data, Ming-Jung Seow
Dissertation: They Did Not Teach: Veterans' Experiences in a Mid-Career Transition Program at an Urban University, Joseph Franklyn Shipes
Dissertation: Latin American-United States Security Relations and the Power Asymmetry Divide, Matthew R. Slater
Dissertation: Facility Administrator Perceptions of the External Environmental Constituencies Shaping Urban Advanced Technology Centers, Daniel Robert Smith
Dissertation: Supersonic Combustion and Mixing Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Fuels in Screamjet Engines, Ahmed A. Taha
Thesis: Managerial and Administrative Competencies for Dental Hygiene Program Administrators, Kelly Gale Tanner
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
Thesis: Traffic Simulation Using Arena, Shanti Yelamanchi
Dissertation: Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron, Junho Yun
Thesis: VATA: An Improved Personal Computer-Based Vowel Articulation Training Aid, Andrew Matthew Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Finite Element Analysis and Active Control for Nonlinear Flutter of Composite Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow, Khaled Abdel-Motagaly
Thesis: Parenting Behaviors Related to Young Adult Depressive Symptomology, Rebecca D. Abramson
Thesis: The Rhetoric and Reality of Famine in Early Modern Europe, Karen Russell Adams
Dissertation: Optimal Aeroelastic Vehicle Sensor Placement for Root Migration Flight Control Applications, Abdul Ghafoor Al-Shenhabi
Thesis: The Effect of Multiple Pulses on Bacteria, Ramy El-Sayed Aly
Thesis: The Search for Vinland: Reconciling Literature and Archaeology, Clifford W. Anderson
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
Thesis: Childhood Obesity and Its Relationship to Sedentary Behavior Patterns vs. Other Independent Risk Factors of Obesity Among Navy Dependent Adolescents, Shaye Lauren Arluk
Dissertation: In Support of a Rationally Managed Fishery: Age and Growth in Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), Julian R. Ashford
Thesis: Motion Perception of Angularly Expanding Stimuli Within a Presence Versus Absence Framework, Nathan R. Bailey
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
Thesis: The Anaconda's Head: The U.S. Consular Service in British North America, 1861-1866, Myron Becker
Thesis: Co-Located Fiber Bragg Gratings for Simultaneous Measurement of Temperature and Strain, Ronald W. Bentley
Dissertation: A Study of the Effects of Constructivist Based vs. Traditional Direct Instruction on 8th Grade Science Comprehension, Clair T. Berube
Thesis: Bolshevism and the Avant-Garde: Marxist Ideology and the Aesthetics of Soviet Film, 1923-28, Garrett H. Booker