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 2022
Thesis: Nord Stream 2: The Gas Curtain of Europe, Sarah Elizabeth Nelson
Dissertation: Three Essays on Clean Water State Revolving Funds: Determinants of State Leveraging and Measurement of Debt Affordability, Lien T. Nguyen
Dissertation: Clostridioides Difficile Biofilm and Spore Production in Response to Antibiotics and Immune Stress, Adenrele M. Oludiran
Thesis: In the Wild a Parasite, Kelsey Ryann Orsini
Thesis: Physical Activity, Social Support, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Visual Impairment, Tayah Lynn Otterness
Dissertation: The Development and Application of Open-Source 3D Bioprinted Organoid and Tumoroid Models for Translational Sciences, Xavier-Lewis Palmer
Dissertation: Characterization of Losses in Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities by Combined Temperature and Magnetic Field Mapping, Ishwari Prasad Parajuli
Thesis: Deep Learning Object-Based Detection of Manufacturing Defects in X-ray Inspection Imaging, Juan C. Parducci
Thesis: Teacher's Self-Efficacy for Data Driven Decision Making, Bettie Fisher Perry
Thesis: Can Obsessive Thoughts Predict Problematic Alcohol Use Through Thought Suppression?, Laura Pettigrew
Thesis: Chen-Fliess Series for Linear Distributed Systems, Natalie T. Pham
Thesis: Development of High Conductivity Copper Coatings for SRF Cavity, Himal Pokhrel
Dissertation: Utilization of Finite Element Analysis Techniques for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Surgical Planning, Michael A. Polanco
Dissertation: Recrystallization of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Semiconductor Thin Films Via Metal Halides Treatment, Deewakar Poudel
Dissertation: Studies of BONuS12 Radial GEM Detector and TCS Beam Spin Asymmetry in CLAS12, Jiwan Poudel
Dissertation: Broaching Race and Race-Related Issues: Phenomenological Inquiry of Doctoral Student Supervisors of Counselor Trainees, Judith Wambui Preston
Dissertation: The Impact of First-Person Perspective Text and Images on Drivers’ Comprehension, Learning Judgments, Attitudes, and Intentions Related to Safe Road-Sharing Behaviors, Alexandra Bryson Proaps
Dissertation: Patient-Targeted Googling: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Psychologists’ Perceptions and Practices, Emily L. Putnam
Dissertation: Evaluation of Generative Models for Predicting Microstructure Geometries in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing, Andy Ramlatchan
Dissertation: The Lived Experiences of Students in a Summer Bridge Ninth Grade Transition Program: A Phenomenological Case Study, Ricardo C. Randall
Thesis: Mechanics of Preimpregnated Fiber Tow Deposition and Compaction, Virginia Meredith Rauch
Dissertation: Natural History of Discourse of Missouri House Bill 1042: Bringing a Critical Perspective to Policy Engagement in Two-Year Contexts, Mary Casey Reid
Dissertation: Inexact Fixed-Point Proximity Algorithms for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization, Jin Ren
Dissertation: Values and Power as Levers to Influence Accountability Policy in Virginia: A Case Study, Angela M. Rhett
Thesis: Blood Lead Levels in Minority Children: A Case of Environmental Racism, Erick Rivera
Dissertation: Exploring the Workplace Climate at Police Agencies During Civil Unrest and the Factors Influencing Officers' Participation in Black Lives Matter Protesting, Joshua R. Ruffin
Thesis: Symbiotic Complexity, Francesca Santos
Dissertation: Role of Structural Hierarchy in Multiscale Material Systems, Siavash Sattar
Dissertation: Fabrication of Nb3Sn by Magnetron Sputtering for Superconducting Radiofrequency Application, Md Nizam Sayeed
Dissertation: Implementing an Online, Integrative, Multi-Component, Group-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for the Reduction of Caregiver Burden in Primary Familial Caregivers of Persons with Dementia: A Preliminary Test of Feasibility, Daniel Robert Schaffer
Dissertation: Kinetic Simulations of Active Nematic Polymers in Channel Flow, Lacey Savoie Schenk
Dissertation: Temporal Dynamics and Seed Dispersal in Plant-Frugivore Communities of the Dominican Republic, Spencer Christian Schubert
Thesis: Development of a Fuzzy Logic Model-Less Aircraft Controller, Christopher M. Scott
Thesis: Implementation of an Extended Kalman Filter Using Inertial Sensor Data for UAVs During GPS Denied Applications, Sky Seliquini
Dissertation: Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Triazole Based Glycoconjugates and 4,6-Acetal Protected D-Glucosamine Derivatives as Low Molecular Weight Gelators, Pooja Sharma
Thesis: Simultaneous Alcohol and Cannabis Use in College Students: Examining Context, Route of Administration, Cognitive Factors, and Consequences via Daily Diary, Jennifer Lynn Shipley
Thesis: Design and Analysis of Electrical Power and Communication Systems for 3U SeaLion CubeSat Mission, Joseph D. Siciliano
Dissertation: Creating More Equitable Opportunities in Early Childhood by Highlighting Parent Voice: A Qualitative Case Study, Julie Dawn Sill
Dissertation: Factors Predicting Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers' Levels of Self-Efficacy in STEM Education, Charlene Wirfel Smith
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Investigation of School Counselor Antiracist Social Justice Practices, Stephanie Deonca Smith-Durkin
Dissertation: Adaptive Risk Network Dependency Analysis of Complex Hierarchical Systems, Katherine L. Smith
Dissertation: Present at the Creation, a Redux: The Need for Strategic Minded Joint Force Officers in a Rapidly Changing and Dynamic International Security Environment, Thomas Joseph Snukis
Dissertation: A Nexus of Literate Activity: The Design of Writing Assignments in the Disciplines, Lauriellen Stankavich
Dissertation: Examining the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy of Teacher Candidates in Urban Immersive Residency Programs, Latanya M. Sutphin
Dissertation: What We Learn From Each Other: Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Non-Helping Professionals Following Exposure to Peer Trauma Experiences, Tiphanie Gayle Sutton
Dissertation: "Quality-Less” Higher Education: Relationship and Neocolonialism in International Development in Afghanistan, Wolayat Tabasum
Dissertation: Guilty as Not (Re)Charged: Calling, Work-Recovery Guilt, and Their Effects on Recovery Experiences, Jeffrey Drake Terry
Dissertation: A Quality Systems Economic-Risk Design Theoretical Framework, Abdallah S. Thefeid
Thesis: Hieronymus Bosch's Dismantled Triptych and the 'Devotio Moderna', Mary E. Tippett
Dissertation: Predictors of Email Response: Determinants of the Intention of not Following Security Recommendations, Miguel Angel Toro-Jarrin
Dissertation: The Associations of Cardiovascular Disease, Physical Activity Intensities, and Measures of Obesity on Static Balance in Middle-Aged and Older Adults, Hannah Martha Twiddy
Thesis: TransParsCit: A Transformer-Based Citation Parser Trained on Large-Scale Synthesized Data, MD Sami Uddin
Dissertation: Career Literacy: Developing, Validating, and Establishing the Reliability of the Career Literacy Continuum Scale, Kesha S. Valentine
Thesis: You Are The Right One, James Joseph Valliere
Thesis: Navy Blues: Between Waves and Warriors, Reinetta A. Vaneendenburg
Dissertation: Finding Core Members of a Hedonic Game, Daniele M. Vernon-Bido
Thesis: Disaster Victim Identification Competencies: A Comparison of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assistant Students, Samantha Clara Vest
Thesis: Flying In Mind, Paula Jean Walashek
Dissertation: Complex System Governance Leadership, David C. Walters
Dissertation: Collaborative Robotics Strategies for Handling Non-Repetitive Micro-Drilling Tasks Characterized by Low Structural Mechanical Impedance, Xiangyu Wang
Thesis: An Analysis of In-Service Choral Music Educators’ Methods of Classroom Management, Brooke Ann Ward
Thesis: Bad Actors, Wendell Ward
Thesis: Negative Appraisals and Experiences of Thriving and Burnout at Work and School During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Embeddedness, Kate Noel Warnock
Dissertation: Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Clinical Reasoning at the Patient Bedside, Rebecca Gale White
Dissertation: Conceptual Advancement of Youth Apprenticeship Programs Using a Policy Delphi, Susan L. Wienand
Thesis: Accommodations, Inclusion, and Communication With Students With Disabilities in the Music Classroom, Cora M. Wilson
Thesis: Greenbox to Barbershops, Willie Wilson
Dissertation: Counselor Perceived Competence Diagnosing Disorders from DSM-5 Diagnostic Categories Survey Results and the Development and Validation of Scores on the Diagnostic Self-Efficacy Scale, Erin Elizabeth Woods
Dissertation: The Experiences of School Counselors Providing Virtual Services During Covid-19: A Phenomenological Investigation, Allison Kathryn Worth
Dissertation: Towards Privacy and Security Concerns of Adversarial Examples in Deep Hashing Image Retrieval, Yanru Xiao
Dissertation: Ion Production and Mitigation in DC High-Voltage Photo-Guns, Joshua T. Yoskowitz
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Other Customer Brand Tie and Employee Behavior on Consumer Behavior, Saeed Zal
Dissertation: Engineering of Ideal Systems for the Study and Direction of Stem Cell Asymmetrical Division and Fate Determination, Martina Zamponi
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Traits, Corporate Investment Decisions, and Firm Value, Rongyao Zhang
Dissertation: A Comparison of Sorority Women and Non-Sorority Women’s Alcohol Use: Perception, Rate of Use, and Consequences, Betsy Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: Examining Melt Pond Dynamics and Light Availability in the Arctic Ocean via High Resolution Satellite Imagery, Austin Wesley Abbott
Dissertation: Effectiveness of College Counseling Interventions in International Student Adjustment to United States Higher Education Systems: A Meta-Analysis, Joshua Ebby Abraham
Dissertation: Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Carbohydrate Based Macrocycles, Photo Responsive Derivatives, and Glycoconjugates Based Low Molecular Weight Gelators, Surya Bahadur Adhikari
Dissertation: The Use of Counter Narratives as a Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Communications-Based Measure: A Study of Muslim-American Undergraduate Students in Universities and Colleges in California, Mohamed Ahmed
Thesis: When They Came for Us, Samia Ahmed
Dissertation: Tunable Compressive Mechanical Behavior of Ice-Templated Materials, Sashanka Akurati
Dissertation: Check-in/Check-out to Increase Academic Engagement and Classroom Behavior Among Adolescent Students in Juvenile Detention Centers, Rakan M. Alshammari
Thesis: The Role of Backreef Soundscapes and their Spatial Structure for Recruitment of Tropical Marine Larvae, Emily R. Anderson
Dissertation: Electrohydrodynamic Simulations of Capsule Deformation Using a Dual Time-Stepping Lattice Boltzmann Scheme, Charles Leland Armstrong
Dissertation: “I’m Just a Middleman": A Phenomenological Study of Specialized Literacy Professionals' Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Michelle L. Arnold
Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Board Female Representation Non-Conformity, Fatemeh Askarzadeh
Dissertation: What Are We Missing?: A Comparison of Experiences of Race-Based Trauma by Black Americans and Black Jamaicans, Bianca R. Augustine
Dissertation: Enhancing Thermal Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells with a Polymer Through Grain Boundary Passivation, Tanzila Tasnim Ava
Thesis: Analysis of a Non-Equilibrium Vortex Pair as Aircraft Trailing Vortices, Manuel Ayala
Dissertation: The Spooky Vein: The Reparative Gothic-Modern in the Works of Richard A.W. Hughes, Corwin R. Baden
Thesis: Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Coping Strategies Among College Faculty, Jordan M. Ball
Thesis: Manifesting Devi, Roudri Bandyopadhyay
Dissertation: Computational and Experimental Investigation into the Determinants of Protein Structure, Folding, and Stability in the β-Grasp Superfamily, John T. Bedford II
Dissertation: COVID-19, Technology, and the Math Classroom: Changes, Obstacles, and Victories Integrating Digitally, Lauren Fifield Bellamy
Thesis: Indian Media Narratives in Gang Rape, Astha Bhandari
Thesis: Modeling Interactions in Concentrated Ceramic Suspensions Under AC Electric Field, Naga Bharath Gundrati
Dissertation: Specification, Control, and Applications of Z-Source Circuit Breakers for the Protection of DC Power Networks, Sagar Bhatta
Dissertation: Synthesis and Characterization of 4,6-protected Glucosamine Derivatives and Branched Glycoconjugates, Jonathan Bietsch
Dissertation: Promise, Potential, Opportunity: Successful HBCU Presidential Fundraising Strategies, Felicia D. Blow
Dissertation: Is It Better to Be Tough, or Is Consistency Key? A Multilevel Analysis Examining the Effects of School Disciplinary Procedures on Perceptions of Climate and Safety Among Students and Teachers, Erica Nicole Bower