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 1996
Thesis: Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus Ater) Range Expansion into the Southeast: Effects on the Passerine Populations Using North American Breeding Bird Survey Data, Elizabeth Pruitt Henderson
Thesis: Concentrations, Complexation and Speciation of Total Dissolved Zinc in the Chesapeake Bay, Charles William Henry III
Dissertation: An Artificial Life Model of Engineering Attrition Contemplation: Why do Federally Employed Civilian Engineers Think of Quitting?, John William Herweg
Dissertation: Cross-Cultural Differences and Intercultural Cooperation in the Context of Change and Uncertainty: Americans and Finns in the Workplace, Maija Llisa Herweg
Thesis: Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer
Thesis: Social and Economic Opportunity in Seventeenth-Century Charles County, Maryland, Garett William Hughes
Dissertation: Variational Methods in Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization for Aerodynamic Applications, Adem Ibrahim Hussen
Dissertation: Correlates of the MMPI-A Immaturity (IMM) Scale in an Adolescent Psychiatric Population, Eric Albert Imhof
Thesis: Long-Term Effects of Seawalls on the Adjacent Nonwalled Beaches of a Historically Receding Shoreline, Bryan Norton Jones
Dissertation: Therapist Orientation and Circularity-Linearity of Causality, Responsibility, Intentionality, and Blame for Clinical Problems, Helen Alexander Jones
Dissertation: Dynamic Scale Genetic Algorithm: An Enhanced Genetic Search for Discrete Optimization, Bela Dange Joshi
Thesis: An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Detection of Cardiac Myoglobin Using Monoclonal Antibodies, Deborah F. Kelly
Dissertation: Numerical Prediction of Turbulent Diffusion Flames Formed by Cylindrical Tube Injector, Ali S. Kheireddine
Dissertation: The Valuation Effects of Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence From Domestic and Foreign Plant Announcements, Bum Suk Kim
Dissertation: Application of Reanalysis Techniques for Pattern Design of Spot Welds, Young San Kim
Thesis: Comparison of Curriculum Content on Behavioral Strategies for Managing Anxious Clients in Associate and Baccalaureate Degree Dental Hygiene Programs in the United States, Darnyl Marie King
Dissertation: Observation of Shelfwater Overrunning the Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar
Dissertation: Seasonal and Mesoscale Variability in the Distribution of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba, West of the Antarctic Peninsula, Cathy Meyer Lascara
Thesis: Nuclear Pariahs and Regimes in the New World Disorder, Wayne F. Lesperance Jr.
Dissertation: The Corporate Effects of R&D and Patent-Grants: Evidence From Intra-Industry Analysis, Steven Alan Lifland
Thesis: A Decision Support Model for Large Systems Using Quality Function Deployment and Goal Programming: A Capital Budgeting Problem, Kenneth Lindsey Jr.
Dissertation: Neuronal Toxicity of Humoral Factors From Patients With Diabetic Neuropathy and Mechanism of Neuronal Death on Cultured Adrenergic Neurons: Studies of Autoimmune Pathogenesis in Diabetic Neuropathy, Dong Liu
Thesis: Organic Matter Characterization of Virginia Rivers and Reservoirs, Susanne Margaret Lockhart
Thesis: Wittgenstein on Freedom of the Will, Grant Allen Marler
Thesis: A System for Structured Management of Hypermedia Resources for the World Wide Web, Kevin L. Marlowe
Thesis: The NOAA Corps A Participant Action Research of a Uniformed Service Facing Termination, Richard Eugene Marriner II
Thesis: The United State Government Versus John Harrison Surratt: A Study in Attitudes, Thomas Michael Martin
Thesis: Telemedicine: Discovering and Overcoming the Barriers, Dennis McClain-Furmanski
Dissertation: Gamma-Ray Optical Studies of ⁷³Ge and ⁵⁷Fe, Walter Carlton McDermott III
Dissertation: Unsteady, Transonic Flow Around Delta Wings Undergoing Coupled and Natural Modes Response: A Multidisciplinary Problem, Margaret Anne Menzies
Thesis: Pounding Seas Against the Shore Wife Battering in the U.S. Navy and Its Relationship to Duty Assignment, Peter James Mercier III
Thesis: Josiah Gorgas and the Richmond Ordnance Industry: The Arsenal of the Confederacy, J. Michael Moore
Dissertation: Exact Solutions for Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Magnetohydrodynamic Stagnation-Point Flow, Shahrooz Moosavizadeh
Dissertation: Optical Fiber Fourier Transform Infrared Evanescent Wave Absorption Spectroscopy of Aluminum Hydroxide and Natural Corrosion, Juock S. Namkung
Thesis: The Emperor Julian (A.D. 331-363): His Life and His Neoplatonic Philosophy, Anthony W. Nattania
Thesis: The Oral Health Status of Individuals on Renal Dialysis, Kimberley Naugle
Thesis: An Exploratory Study of Gender and the Process of Negotiating Academic Contracts Among Sociologists, Miriam M. Newton
Thesis: Eldorado: The Poes in Norfolk, Myreen Moore Nicholson
Thesis: Grading Teaching: An Evaluation of Teaching Techniques Used by California Community College Introduction to Sociology Instructors, Lynette Ann Osborne-Estes
Dissertation: A Total Systems analysis Method for the Conceptual design of Spacecraft: An application to Remote Sensing Imager Systems, Knut I. Oxnevad
Dissertation: Numerical Chromosome Abnormalities in Sperm From Oligoasthenoteratozoospermic Patients and Fertile Males, Myung-Geol Pang
Thesis: Information Warfare: Technology and the Information Advantage, Daniel Matthew Parker
Thesis: Animal-Word and Sound Test: An Auditory Cognitive Interference Effect, Jason L. Parker
Thesis: The Martinsville Seven: Virginia's Most Controversial Court Case, 1949 - 1951, Michael Dean Plemmons
Thesis: Characterization of Rainfall Runoff Quality from a Shipyard Drydock, Peter Pommerenk
Thesis: The Evaluation of Succinylcholine Chloride for Harmful Effects Upon Early-Stage Mouse Embryos, Francis Warren Prescott
Dissertation: Linear Models for Multivariate Repeated Measures Data, Shantha S. Rao
Dissertation: Lead Activation of a Developmentally Regulated Calcium Channel in Rat Hippocampal Nerve Terminals, Troy E. Rhodes
Dissertation: The Tacit Dimension of Organizational Learning, Thomas Reeder Robinson
Dissertation: Computer Anxiety and Attitudes of Urban Teacher Education Students, Alfred P. Rovai
Dissertation: Toward Understanding Team Leadership: The Empirical Development of a Team Leadership Classification System, Brian J. Ruggeberg
Dissertation: The Influence of Time Pressure and Information Load on Rule-Based Decision-Making Performance, Brooke Browne Schaab
Dissertation: A One-Dimensional Model for Storm Breaching of Barrier Islands, Cheol Shik Shin
Dissertation: The Modeling of Structural-Acoustic Interaction Using Coupled FE/BE Method and Control of Interior Acoustic Pressure Using Piezoelectric Actuators, Yucheng Shi
Thesis: Fear of Crime in Rural America: Fear Along Virginia's Eastern Shore, David Steven Simon
Dissertation: Dynamic Lot Sizing and Scheduling in a Multi-Item Production System, Padmanabhan Soundar
Dissertation: Optimality and Construction of Designs with Generalized Group Divisible Structure, Sudesh K. Srivastav
Dissertation: The Impact of Total Quality Management on Student Achievement and School Improvement Team Performance in an Urban Elementary Setting, Jennette Ann Straus
Thesis: Comparison of Positive Screening and Confimatory Results From Federally Mandated Drug Testing of Urine, Mary M. Stuck
Dissertation: Comprehensive Conjunctive-Use Management of Connected Surface Water Groundwater Systems using Stochastic Inputs and Uncertainties, Seshadri Suryanarayana
Dissertation: Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Aerodynamic Configurations With Blend Surfaces, Almuttil Mathew Thomas
Dissertation: A Study to Determine the Effects of Marketing Occupational Experience on Urban Secondary Marketing Teachers' Perceptions of Curriculum Priorities, K. Denise Threlfall
Dissertation: Neuropsychological Assessment of Battered Women, Mona Matheney Tiernan
Dissertation: Characterization of P39, A Borrelia burgdorferi Specific Protein, Jill M. Troyer
Dissertation: Measuring Organizational Climate for Diversity, Amy L. Vick
Thesis: A Test of an Alternate Calibration Matrix for NIOSH Method 7300, Robert T. Vitek
Dissertation: Causal Models of Work-Family Conflict From Family and Organizational Perspectives, Lyse Guttau Wells
Thesis: Developing Methods to Measure and Project Levels of Combat Readiness in a Naval Aviation Squadron at the Unit Level, Michael Lawrence White
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Complex, Three-Dimensional, Turbulent-Free Jets, Robert V. Wilson
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Norfolk Interagency Consortium's Community-Based System of Care for At-Risk Youth, Melody Bingman Wilt
Thesis: The Diet of Oryzomys Palustris Based on Stomach Content Analysis, Shannon L. Wright
Dissertation: Scalability in Real-Time Systems, Ramesh Yerraballi
Thesis: "Never Draw Unless You Mean to Shoot": United States Department of State's Responses to Property Seizures in Latin America, Nathan D. Younge
Dissertation: Exploring Knowledge Processes for Technology Assimilation, Rochelle K. Young
Thesis: Parallel Newton-Krylov-Schwarz Solvers for the Full Potential Flow Equation, Jie Zhang
Dissertation: The Assessment of Osteoinductivity of Human Allograft Demineralized Bone Matrix by In Vivo and In Vitro Assay Models, Min Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: Numerical Investigation of Shock-Induced Combustion Past Blunt Projectiles, Jagjit K. Ahuja
Dissertation: Development of a K-correction Factor for the MMPI-A, Jody Jacobson Alperin
Thesis: Judicial Intelligence: Allied Signal Intelligence and the War Crimes Trials of Class "A" War Criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-1948, William Todd Baker
Dissertation: Nonlinear Transient Thermal Analysis By the Force-Derivative Method, Narayani V. Balakrishnan
Dissertation: The Effect of Arctic River Hydrological Cycles on Arctic Ocean Circulation, Peter Becker
Dissertation: An Experimental Investigation of Wall Cooling Effects on Hypersonic Boundary Layer Stability in a Quiet Wind Tunnel, Alan E. Blanchard
Thesis: Revolution, Song Lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Playscript, LeRoy C. Boyd III
Thesis: Partnership of Necessity: The Anglo-American Intelligence Relationship from 1921 to 1942, H. Douglas Brooks III
Thesis: Hold as a Monosemic Verb, Amy D. Camp
Dissertation: MMPI and Rorschach Findings of Individuals Approved for Gender Reassignment Surgery, Gregory Ralph Caron
Dissertation: Pathogenicity of Murine Cytomegalovirus Mutants, Victoria Jean Cavanaugh
Dissertation: Views of Feminist Family Therapy: A Q-Methodological Inquiry, Bronwen Cheek
Dissertation: In vitro Expression of Human Zona Pellucida Protein 3, Chih-Wei Chen
Dissertation: Finite Element Nonlinear Random Response of Composite Panels of Arbitrary Shape to Acoustic and Thermal Loads Applied Simultaneously, Roger R. Chen
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Computer-Assisted Instruction on the Academic Achievement of Students in Grades 6 Through 12: A Comparison of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Educational Settings, Edwin Patrick Christmann
Thesis: A Historical, Theoretical, and Empirical Study of PPP Using Traditional and Alternative Methodologies, Kerry E. Clendenon
Thesis: The Inner Voice, Janis Ruth Bagnall Cochrane
Thesis: Geology of an Archean Greenstone Belt at Point Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, Patrick Rowan Considine
Thesis: Confederate Civil War Photographers Propagators and the Hero Myth, Ronald L. Crusan
Dissertation: The Nature of Data Sources That Inform Decision-Making in Reading by Experienced Second-Grade Teachers, Margaret Mary Dinan Davis
Thesis: A Comparison of Graduation Rates for Community College Transfer Students and Non-Transfer Students at An Urban, Regional University, Rory Jay DeShano
Thesis: Names as Insults Among Middle School Students, Susan M. de Veer
Dissertation: Theoretical Investigation of Two-Color, Two-Photon, 6s(2)S(1/2) → 5d(2)D(j) → 11p(2)P(3/2) Excitation and Depolarization Spectra in Atomic Cesium, Boris Dobrydnev
Thesis: The Effects of Risk Management Program Implementation on Worker Safety Knowledge, John C. Donnelly