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 1982
Thesis: Old Dominion University Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Degree Program: Graduate and Employer Survey, Deborah Blythe Bauman
Thesis: The Effects of Exercise on Women's Self-Esteem, Wendy Laurie Biddle
Thesis: Client Acceptance of the Role of the Nurse Practitioner, Mary Elizabeth Butt
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions About the Behavioral Characteristics of the Effective Clinical Teacher, Frances Gaby Carson
Thesis: Development of a Procedure for Analysis of High Density Lipoprotein Subclasses, Chan Chin
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Troglobitic Cirolanid Isopod Antrolana lira Bowman from Madisons Saltpetre Cave and Stegers Fissure, Augusta Co., Virginia, T. Lynn Collins
Dissertation: Electroimmunoassay a New Competitive Protein Binding Assay Using Antibody Selective Electrodes, George Raymond Connell
Thesis: Electroimmunoassay: A New Competitive Protein Binding Assay Using Antibody Selective Electrodes, George Raymond Connell
Thesis: Determining the Uptake and Possible Assimilation of the Plant Component of Spartina Detritus by Palaemonetes Pugio Using a Rapid Radiolabeling Method, Michael Peter Crosby
Dissertation: Improved Finite Element Methodology for Integrated Thermal-Structural Analysis, Pramote Dechaumphai
Thesis: Food Habits and Ecology of Beavers in Southeastern Virginia, John Lennox Echternach Jr.
Thesis: Absorption Coefficients of Ozone at Low Temperature in the Visible Region, Hessameddin Ghiassi
Thesis: Speech Spectral Modeling and Speech Synthesis Using Finite Impulse Response Digital Filters, Paul Edward Gordy
Thesis: Aseptic Techniques Currently Used in Dental Hygiene Clinics Within Accredited Dental Hygiene Programs, Jan Shaner Greenlee
Thesis: Pedodontists' Attitudes Toward Pit and Fissure Sealants as a Preventative Oral Service, Kathern Rheanice Hamlin
Dissertation: Improving the Accuracy of Performance Evaluations: A Comparison of Three Methods of Performance Appraiser Training, Jerry Willard Hedge
Thesis: Comparison of Steady-State Pipe Network Computer Programs, Michael Bernice Holloway
Thesis: Ortho Cyclization Reactions of Catecholamines, Robert Lee Hudkins
Thesis: Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of a Late Pleistocene Barrier Island Complex, Southeastern Virginia, Alan K. Jasper
Dissertation: A Comparison of Recruitment Strategies Among Brachyuran Crustacean Megalopae of the York River, Lower Chesapeake Bay and Adjacent Shelf Waters, David Franklin Johnson
Thesis: The Effects of Varying Fresh Water Discharge on Dispersion in an Estuarine Hydraulic Model of the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Michael J. Jugan
Thesis: Factors Effecting Phytoplankton Assemblages in the Lafayette River Estuary, Laurie Ann Kalenak
Dissertation: Causal Modeling of Organizational Commitment, Karin E. Klenke-Hamel
Thesis: The Effects of Dredged Material (Suspended Solid Phase) on the Hatching Success of Spot Eggs (Leiostomus xanturus), Meryl A. Masters
Thesis: Environmental Influence on the Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp in Pamlico Sound North Carolina, Michael Andrew Matylewich
Thesis: Morphological Variation of the Foraminifer Elphidium excavatum (Terquem) on Crumps Bank and Willoughby Bank, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Pamela Kay Painter
Thesis: Myology and Osteology of Lupinoblennius Herre (Pisces: Blenniidae, William A. Roumillat
Thesis: A Structural Analysis of Phytoplankton in the Chesapeake Bay Plume and Adjacent Shelf Waters, Charles K. Rutledge
Thesis: The Influence of Lamaze Classes and Delivery Room Presence on Paternal Attachment Behavior, Cherie Sammis-Gonzales
Thesis: Measuring Interpersonal Dependency in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients, Susan D. Schaffer
Thesis: Isomers of 5.8S Ribosomal RNA, David Smith
Thesis: Modeling Charge Diffusion from Proton-Induced Ionization Tracks in Silicon Photodiode Arrays, Lee Cole Smith
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Influencing Registered Nurse Retention and Turnover Below the Head Nurse Level in Acute Care Hospitals, Jean M. Snyder
Thesis: Feeding Behavior of Three Species of Spionid Polychaetes, Thomas Lane Stokes Jr.
Dissertation: The Marine Geochemistry of Selenium, Kazufumi Takayanagi
Thesis: A Capacitance Wavestaff and Measurements of Wave Height Decay in the Surf Zone, David L. Timpy
Thesis: The Regioselective 3-Alkylation of Piperidine, Richard Dunn Todd
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric Deposition From Stations Surrounding Lower Chesapeake Bay, David Benjamin Webber
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on Growth and Survival of the Blue Tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner) (Pisces Cichlidae), Maylon Lowell White Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Kepone on the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa, Judith Marie Wilson
Thesis: Analysis of Organic N-Chloramines in Chlorinated Drinking Water, John Po Wen Yang
Thesis: Emancipation & Renewal: English Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century, Cheryl E. Yielding
Thesis: Analysis of Heavy Minerals in Arenaceous Lutites From the Northern Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, Kim Zauderer
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Dissertation: Effects of Multiple Scattering and Surface Albedo on the Photochemistry of the Troposphere, Tommy Reinhold Robert Augustsson
Thesis: A Quantitative Description of Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) with Applications in Fisheries Management, Anne Madolyn Babcock
Thesis: Chemistry of Organic N-Chloramines, Formation of Arenesulfonamides by Derivatization of Organic N-Chloramine with Sodium Arenesulfinate, Katherine F. Bowdring
Thesis: Characteristics of Sediment Transport in Overwash Surges, Paul Richardson Bowen
Thesis: The Seasonality of Occurrence of Larval and Juvenile Sciaenids in a Virginia Seaside Estuary, James Howard Cowan Jr.
Thesis: A Technique for the Isolation and Identification of Aliphatic Amines in Water, Peter Alan Drew
Thesis: Mining the Deep Seabed Implications for International Law and American Foreign Policy, Steven H. Fitzgerald
Thesis: In Vitro Enzymatic Assay of RNA Methylation, Pamela Jean Eubanks Gallup
Dissertation: A Method of Modeling Multirate Two-Dimensional Recursive Digital Filters Author, Albert P. Gerheim
Dissertation: Sound Absorption in N2-H2O Gas Mixtures at Room Temperature and Low Frequency/Pressure Ratios, William Axam Griffin
Thesis: Growth and Recruitment of Two Penaeids in the Bay of St. Louis, Mississippi During 1979, Teresa C. Heaton
Thesis: The Effects of Copper on Skeletonema Costatum (Greville) Cleve, Susanne Sybille Jackman
Thesis: High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Biogenic Amines, Thais Edwina Ahrendt Keegan
Thesis: The African Foreign Policy of the German Democratic Republic, Heide R. Kersey
Thesis: Effects of the Dental Hygiene Curriculum on Student Creativity, Linda Kathryn Martin
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of the Biological Activity of Heterocyclic Analogs of Phencyclidine, Julian Dew McKenney Jr.
Thesis: Correlation Between Glutathione Peroxidase Activity and Selenium Concentrations in Both Plasma and Erythrocytes, Agatha Dudzai Munyanyi
Dissertation: Water Wave Refraction with Non-Linear Theory, Im Sang Oh
Thesis: "The Tide of the Unconscious" Jung, Bosch and the Archetypes of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Andrea R. Peck
Dissertation: Geomorphology and Dynamics of a Sand Wave in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo
Dissertation: Numerical Model Simulation of Offshore Flow During the Winter Season, Maria Cintia Piccolo
Thesis: Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim
Thesis: Relationship Between the Empathy Levels of Dental Hygiene Students and Their Teachers, Claudia Hudak Sanderlin
Thesis: Games and Gaming of the Stuart Aristocracy, Vicky Ann Sanderlin
Thesis: Synthesis of Dihydroisoquinolines and Tetrahydroisoquinolines, John J. Schlager
Thesis: Petroleum-Utilizing Bacteria: The Biological Line Defense Against Oil Pollution, Steven W. Sokolowski
Dissertation: Usage and Limitations of Characteristic Vector Analysis of Remote Sensing Multispectral Data for the Identification and Quantification of Water Quality Parameters, Theodore A. Talay
Thesis: Breeding Birds of Two Atlantic White Cedar Stands in the Great Dismal Swamp, Karen Terwilliger
Thesis: The Use of Microscopic Vegetative Characteristics and Leaf Characteristics and Leaf Deterioration Rates in the Formulation of Keys of Some Wetland Plants, Bruce Foy Williams
Thesis: Decay Rates and Nutrient Dynamics in Confines and Nonconfined Leaf Litter in the Great Dismal Swamp, R. Frederick K. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: The Carter Administrative Elite: A Background Analysis, Susan Adomaitis Armstrong
Thesis: The Association of 5.8 S with 28S Ribosomal RNA, Nandita Banerjee
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions of Themselves and the Typical Dental Hygienist in Regard to Feminism, Christine M. Berg
Thesis: Effectiveness of Dental Plaque Charts in Motivating Adolescents Toward Improved Oral Hygiene and Oral Health, Lee Ann Branscome
Thesis: The Feasibility of Commercial Scale Culture of Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser Oxyrhynchus, Christopher John Coffing
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on the Growth and Survival of the Crayfish, Procambarus actus actus (Girard), Emily Deaver
Thesis: The Effect of the Herbicide Metolachlor on Nutrient Levels in Zea Mays L., Tamsey Dawn Warren Ellis
Thesis: The Effects of Family Counseling on the Treatment of Juvenile Status Offenders of the Norfolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Valerie Karen Freeman
Thesis: High Resolution Two-Dimensional Electrophoretic Study of Human Seminal Plasma Proteins, Edward E. Gaunt
Thesis: The Analysis of S-Adenosylmethionine and S-Adenosylhomocysteine in Normal and Neoplastic Cells, Kathryn Elizabeth Godburn
Thesis: Litter Production and Nutrient Content of Litter in the Seasonally Flooded Dismal Swamp, Marta M. Gomez
Thesis: Filtration Ingestion and Assimilation Rates of the Mysid Shrimp Neomysis Americana Smith, Fed Three Food Sources, Robert W. Grabb
Thesis: Sulfatides as Opiate Receptors: An Evaluation of the Opiate Binding Potential of Sulfogalactosylgylcerolipid, Darby Geoghegan Hand
Dissertation: The Development of a Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer and Its Application to Remote Sensing of the Earth, Richard Forrest Harrington
Dissertation: Coherence Between Wind and Current Events in a Nearshore, Shallow Water, Wave Dominated Environment, George Milton Hecker
Dissertation: Surface Circulation and Horizontal Diffusion Processes of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Frederick A. Hilder
Thesis: Vocational Interests of Dental Hygiene Professionals, Renee Johnson
Thesis: Short-Term Effect of Preventative Oral Health Services on Drug Rehabilitation Clients' Self Concept, Susan Elizabeth Jones
Thesis: Evaluation of the Impact of a Health Education Program on the Rate of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in a Selected Female Outpatient Population, Lo Lumsden
Thesis: The Synthesis and Biochemical Evaluation of Potential Acetylcholinesterase Reactivators, Andrea McDearmid Lunsford
Thesis: High Resolution Laser Absorption Spectroscopy of Ozone Near 1129.4 CM-1, Lawrence N. Majorana
Thesis: Oral Health Care Services Available to Mentally Retarded Individuals in Public Residential Facilities, Marilynn Mattox
Thesis: Sound Absorption in N2-H2O Gas Mixtures at Elevated Temperatures, Roger W. Meredith
Thesis: The Effects of Elevated Calcium Chloride and Magnesium Chloride Levels on Larval Growth and Survival of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man) (Decapoda Palaemonidae) Reared in the Laboratory, James Thomas Michaels II
Thesis: Structural Studies of Preimplantation Rabbit Embryos Using FTIR ATR, Amy R. Moler-Booth
Thesis: The Distribution of Cesium-137, Copper, Lead and Zinc in Various Sedimentary Environments of the James River Estuary, Virginia, Colin Stevenson Moy
Thesis: Finite Element Model of a Timoshenko Beam with Structural Damping, Louis Ablen Roussos