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.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
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
Thesis: Academic Achievement of College Underclassmen as a Function of Student Ethnicity and Parenting Style, Meghan Marie Sabin
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
Thesis: Beyond the Sea of Cortes: A Memoir, Rick Skwiot
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
Thesis: Stress-Counter Response Training: Flight Simulation ANS Biofeedback, Debra K. Stewart
Thesis: Defining and Customizing Tagmemic Interaction for Historic House Museum Websites: A Study of Effective Learning Design for Museum Educators, Julie Jenkins Strohkorb
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
Thesis: A Comparison of Big-Five Personality Factors Safe Sex Behaviors and Social Desirability Using Paper-and-Pencil and Interactive-Voice-Response Surveys, J. Eric Tedford
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: Differences in Perception and Number of Incidents of Sexual Harassment Among College Students in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, Antonia von Tobiesen
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
Thesis: Western Psalm, Josh Allen
Thesis: Determination of Life Cycle Cost Under Uncertainty, Hamoud R. AL-Otaibi
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: Human Research Participant Protections: A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Key Documents, Lisa R. Ballance
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: She Stories: Navy Wives in the Twentieth Century, Susan Boland
Thesis: The Cowboy's Dirty Laundry, Kurt Bolotin
Thesis: Bolshevism and the Avant-Garde: Marxist Ideology and the Aesthetics of Soviet Film, 1923-28, Garrett H. Booker
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
Thesis: The Influence of Affective State and Social Loafing on Teams Over Time, Amy N. Cunningham
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
Thesis: An Examination of Individual Differences in Monitoring for Automation Failures, Holly DeVries
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
Thesis: The Effects of Equal Opportunity Fairness and Diversity on Work Group Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment in the Military: A Test of Structural Invariance, Nancy P. Emery
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
Thesis: The Catholic Church in the Nicaraguan Revolution: Interdependence and Social Movements, Eric W. Frith
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: An Object-Oriented Resource Pool Model in Support of Discrete Event Simulations, Srinivas Gullapalli
Thesis: Psychophysiological Measures and Performance Effects in an Adaptive Sustained Attention Task, Gerald Alan Hadley
Thesis: Development of an Electrotransformation Technique for Streptococcus iniae and Preliminary Characterization of the Hemolysin Associated with this Bacterium, Kimberly Ann Hahn
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: Development of Atlas Based Simulation Capability for Automated Testing, Rami Hanbali
Thesis: The Impact of Parental Variables on Child Behavior at Home and in the Daycare Classroom, Margaret Sue Hart
Thesis: Map Kinases in Cynomolgus Monkey Sperm Hyperactivation, Emily Nicole Haynes
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
Thesis: A Compact Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar (Dial) Transmitter Using a Solid-State Dye Polymer, Alton L. Jones Jr.
Dissertation: Measurement of Virtual Compton Scattering Below Pion Threshold at Invariant Four-Momentum Transfer Squared Q²=1.(GEV/C)², Christopher Jutier