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 1984
Thesis: Admissions Criteria as Predictors of Students' Successful Completion of a Dental Hygiene Program, M. Linda Brown
Dissertation: An Examination of the Variability of Migratory Timing Statistics Estimated From Catch and Effort Observations, Arthur J. Butt
Thesis: Predictors of Appointment-Keeping Behaviors Among Users of Adult Medical Clinics, Ruth L. Campau
Dissertation: The Educated Worker: A Case Study of Educational Needs and Program of Developmental Reading, Margaret Barnes Carter
Thesis: Evaluation of Peptide Assimilation in Ehrlich Ascites Tumor Cells, John M. Castellano
Thesis: Determinants of Variation in Avian Mobbing Behavior, Charles Ray Chandler Jr.
Thesis: Life History Aspects of Reithrodontomys humulis in Southeastern Virginia, Michelle Cawthorn Chandler
Thesis: Determination of the Internal Rotational Energy of Gaseous 1,2-Dichloroethane in an Argon Matrix Using Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, Susan Lynn Clarke
Thesis: Germination and Host Range of Branched Broomrape (Orobanche ramosa) from Texas, Robert D. Coffin
Thesis: Princess Anne County: A Study in Material Wealth, Todd Grant Duncan
Thesis: Staff Nurses' Self-Esteem as It Relates to Working in Specialty Areas, Donna Lynn Evans
Dissertation: Partial Radiative Recombination Cross Sections for Excited States of Hydrogen, Patricia M. Fazio
Dissertation: Phytoplankton Ecology and Dynamics in the James River Estuary Virginia, U. S. A., Margaret J. Filardo
Dissertation: A Study of the Robustness of the Three-Parameter Item Response Model, James B. Flynn
Thesis: Orthodontists' Attitudes Toward Expanding Career Opportunities for the Dental Hygienist in Orthodontics, Julie A. Foster
Thesis: Selection of Sludge Conditioning Chemicals and Filter Media for Vacuum Filter Dewatering of Sludge at the Atlantic Wastewater Treatment Plant, Douglas W. Fredericks
Thesis: The Role of Colonization Predation and Season in Determining Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in a Temperate Lake, Cheryl Lynn Frew
Thesis: Fourier Series Analysis of the Relationship of Morphologic Variations and Bathymetry in Recent Bolivina (Foraminiferida) From the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Anthony Cavedo Gary
Dissertation: The Impact of CETA Activities on Selected Hampton Roads Manpower Programs: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Raymond A. Gromelski
Thesis: How Registered Nurses in Skilled Nursing Facilities Rate the Importance of and the Frequency Engaged in Specific Nursing Behaviors Related to Their Role, Christine Anne Heine
Thesis: A Description and Analysis of the Timing of Virginia's Weakfish Fishery, Bruce William Hill
Thesis: A Study of Loneliness and Health Related Complaints in Residents of High Rise Apartment Buildings for the Elderly, Susan H. Jones
Thesis: A Method for the Comparison of HDL Containing Apoprotein E and HDL Cholesterol, Steven A. Knizner
Thesis: Characterization of Trihalomethane Formation from Proteins in Chlorinated Water, Robert Aaron Kravitz
Thesis: Tectonic Implications of Late Tertiary Strata exposed Along the Piankatank River, Eastern Virginia, Daniel Stephen Lane
Thesis: Human Need Fulfillment Alteration in the Client with Uterine Cancer: The Registered Nurses' Perception Versus the Clients' Perception, Linda Lane Lilley
Thesis: Investigation of the Coenzyme Binding Site of Lactate Dehydrogenase from Chicken Muscle, Jia-hwei Lin
Thesis: Two-Dimensional Electrophoretic Studies of Normal Spematozoal Proteins, Ying Lin
Dissertation: Factors Influencing College Choice of Minority Students and Their Implications for Recruitment, Linda Blount McCluney
Thesis: The Adams Image in American History, Mary Helen McCoy
Dissertation: The Effects of Person-Job Environment Congruency on Individual and Organizational Outcomes, Eileen J. McDonald
Thesis: Correlation Studies Between Human Seminal Plasma Trace Metal Concentrations and Semen Quality, De-Shen Mei
Dissertation: Triple Trigonometric Series and Their Application to Mixed Boundary Value Problems, Gordon Melrose
Thesis: A Method for Determining Creosote Contamination of Sediment from the Elizabeth River, Norfolk, VA, Elizabeth G. Merrill
Thesis: Walter Heron Taylor and His Era, Emanuel Meyer
Dissertation: Estimating the Parameters of Truncated Distributions, Mukul Mohan Mittal
Thesis: Stratigraphy and Textural Analyses of a Beach Ridge Complex, Cape Henry, Virginia, Daniel Leland Oyler
Thesis: Nineteenth Century English Choral Music, Ann Boley Parker
Thesis: The Great Day: A Fantasy Play in Five Acts, Six Scenes by Vladimir Kirshon, Christopher Lee Philips
Dissertation: Studies on the Interference of Wings and Propeller Slipstreams, Ramadas K. Prabhu
Thesis: The Effects of X-Irradiation on the Metamorphosis and Budding of Aurelia aurita, Michael John Prokopchak
Thesis: A Survey of Burnout Among Dental Hygiene Educators, Sandra Boggs Ricks
Thesis: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Larvae of Sympatric Pagurid Hermit Crabs (Decapoda, anomura) in Virginian Estaurine and Coastal Waters, Philip Wesley Sadler
Dissertation: Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Implementing Managerial Technology: A Socio-Technical System Process, Eduardo Alejandro Salas Garcia
Thesis: A Molecular Phylogeny of the Grunts (Perciformes: Haemulidae) Inferred from Nuclear RAG1 Gene Sequences, Millicent D. Sanciangco
Dissertation: Determinants for the Timing of Escapement From the Sockeye Salmon Fishery of the Copper River, Alaska: A Simulation Model, Howard A. Schaller
Thesis: The Effects of Tri-O-cresyl Phosphate on 2',3'-Cyclicnucleotide-3'-Phosphohydrolase Activity in Neural and Non-Neural Tissue of the Rat, Mark K. Schlager
Thesis: Timing of the Blue Crab Fisheries of Virginia and Its Application to Harvest Management, J. Dale Shively
Dissertation: Block Transform Coding of Presample Filtered Data, Thomas A. Shull
Thesis: Groundwater Management by Linear Programming, Seungho Song
Thesis: Numerical Experiments with the Quasigeostrophic Potential-Vorticity Equation, Peter L. Spence
Thesis: An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Iosipescu Shear Test for Composite Materials, Barry Stuart Spigel
Thesis: Demographic Analysis and Microhabitat Relationships of a Small Mammal Community in Clearings of the Great Dismal Swamp, Jean Ferguson Stankavich
Thesis: Radiation Damage to GaAs Solar Cells Including Isotropic Effects, Larry Victor Stock
Dissertation: The Aquatic Geochemistry of the Particle-Reactive Radionuclides PO-210, PB-210, and BE-7, James Forrest Todd
Thesis: The Uneasy Triangle The Impact of China on U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1970's SALT: A Case Study, Karen Elizabeth Toenjes
Thesis: Analysis of Central Equatorial Pacific Water Masses by Method of Principal Components, Ross Tuxhorn
Thesis: Investigation of Matrix Effects on the Furnace Atomic Absorption Signals of Chromium, Nickel and Selenium, Susan Marie Viet
Thesis: Underwater Acoustic Wavefront Phase Fluctuations, George L. Vojtech Jr.
Thesis: Activity Levels of Arboreal Rodents Peromysus and Ochrotomys Evaluated with Nest Cans in Seasonally Flooded Forests, John W. Walke
Thesis: Trait Anxiety in Female Heads of Household, Bonnie Martinetta Wheeler
Thesis: Trait Anxiety in Female Heads of Household, Bonnie Martinette Wheeler
Thesis: Negative Cooperatively in the Binding of 3-Aminopyridine Adenine Dinucleotide to L-α-Glycero-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, David Wheeler
Dissertation: A Comparison of Parenting Profiles of Adolescent Mothers, Willar F. White-Parson
Dissertation: Effects of Encoding Variety and Concurrent-Task Practice on the Transfer and Retention of Complex Skill, Peter S. Winne
Dissertation: A Theoretical Model for Calculation of Molecular Stopping Power, Yuan-Jian Xu
Thesis: I.G. Farben's Petro-Chemical Plant and Concentration Camp at Auschwitz, Robert Simon Yavner
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: The Effect of Crowding on Growth of the Cichlid Fish, Oreochromis Mossambicus, Bonnie A. Barrows
Dissertation: A Study of the Effectiveness of Selected Aspects of the Developmental Education Program at an Urban Multicampus Community College, Michael Anthony Barton
Thesis: Seventeenth Century Settlement of the Nansemond River in Virginia, Emmett Edward Bottoms
Thesis: The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Anxiety and Physiological Measures, Marie Nicholas Bremner
Thesis: Input and Distribution of Sewage Derived Sedimentary Material Adjacent to Chesapeake-Elizabeth Sewage Outfall, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Robert Carroll Brown
Thesis: Simultaneous Functional Hermaphroditism in the Shrimp Hippolysmata wurdemanni (Gibbes) (Decopoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae), Marie Hollister Bundy
Thesis: Investigation of the Substrate Binding Site of NAD Glycohydrolase in Human Seminal Plasma, Sau C. Cheung
Thesis: Design of Efficient Algorithms Through Minimization of Data Transfers, Yong Mo Chong
Dissertation: Oculometric Indices of Simulator and Aircraft Motion, James Raymond Comstock Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Dredged Materials on the Copeod, Acartia Tonsa, Renee Suzanne Crouch
Thesis: An Analysis of the Correlation Between Nurses' Attitudes Toward Death and Their Presence with the Dying Patient, Uvonna Weeks Daniels
Thesis: In Favor of Capital Punishment: A Blending of Philosophical Perspectives, James Charles Donnelly
Thesis: Variability of Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Concentrations and Deposition Rates, Charles Thomas Farmer
Thesis: Transient Two Dimensional Ground-Water Flow: A Comparison of Computed and Analytical Results, Robert Jan Fennema
Thesis: Analysis and Stability of Closed Surge Tanks, John Emory Fowler
Thesis: Treatment Process Optimization at the Lee Hall Water Treatment Plant Newport News, Virginia, Marcy Granum Garnett
Dissertation: Protein Contributions of the Male Accessory Organs to the Composition of Human Seminal Plasma as Determined by High Resolution Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis, Edward E. Gaunt
Thesis: The Effect of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Fecundity of Acartia tonsa (calanoid Copepoda), Juanita Y. Grabarczyk
Thesis: Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels in the Ocean Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Gmelin from the Philadelphia Sewage Sludge Disposal Site, Guy Jeffrey Hall
Thesis: Psyche and Time: The Phenomenology of Time Consciousness, Sharon Fleet Hartman
Dissertation: A Model of the Population Dynamics of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, Betty Springer Hester
Thesis: Determination of N,N'-Diphenylguanidine in Biological Tissues and Fluids Using High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Edward Sidney Hunter III
Thesis: An Arms Race in Outer Space Between the United States and the Soviet Union Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, Gary Morgan Jensen
Thesis: The Effect of a Cardiac Education Program on the Knowledge, Stress, and State Anxiety Levels of First Time Post Myocardial Infarction Patients in a Post Coronary Care Unit, Jeanine L. Johns
Dissertation: An Error-Dependent Model of Instrument-Scanning Behavior in Commercial Airline Pilots, Dennis H. Jones
Thesis: The Effect of Sea Nettle Abundance on the Food Chain of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael Glenn Kelly
Thesis: The Distribution of Phytoplankton in Frontal Regions of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Richard V. Lacouture
Thesis: The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period, Sara James Laster
Thesis: Determination of Erythrocyte Zinc Concentrations Using Zeeman Effect Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Tanya Maranda Lewis
Thesis: A Study of Increased Flow Off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States Within Four Synoptic Flow Patterns During the Winter Months, John Dale Liechty
Thesis: High Resolution Two Dimensional Electrophoresis of Soluble Proteins in Human Spermatozoa, Hsing-Ying Liu
Thesis: The Growth and Feeding Behavior of Juvenile Spot, Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepede, in the Nursery Region of the James River, Virginia, John Thomas McCambridge Jr.
Thesis: The Relationship of Size Class Distribution to Migratory Behavior in Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Mario A. Paula