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 1987
Thesis: Structural Sensitivity Analysis on a Parallel Computer, Niu Kian Teck
Thesis: Perceived Job Stress in Critical Care Nursing in a Military Setting, Jeannette Theriault
Dissertation: Supervisors' Perceptions of Staff Development Needs of Urban Vocational Teachers, Patricia Tynes Tompkins
Dissertation: The Geochemistry of Selenium and Sulfur in a Coastal Salt Marsh, David Jay Velinsky
Thesis: Depositional and Diagenetic History of the Middle Ordovician Carbonates of the Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia, Lynn Ellen Weyenberg
Thesis: Laminar Viscous Effects on Longitudinal Dispersion in Tidal Froude Models, Larry H. White
Dissertation: Experimental Study of Shock Wave Interference Heating on a Cylindrical Leading Edge, Allan R. Wieting
Dissertation: Community Development Through Industry and Education Partnerships: An Integrated Evaluability Assessment of a Cooperative Training Alliance Between Industry and an Urban Community College, Richard E. Witte
Dissertation: The Effects of Various Lumbar/Sacral Back Support Systems Upon Human Peak Muscular Force, Total Work, and Average Power, Michael Lee Woodhouse
Dissertation: The Influence of Rater Training, Scale Format, and Rating Justification on the Quality of Performance Ratings by Three Rater Sources, Steven B. Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Dissertation: An Administrative Microcomputer Literacy Training Model for Elementary School Administrators of Virginia Beach, Virginia, Karen Ann Bosch
Thesis: Solid Phase Extraction of Mammalian Cell Mitochondrial DNA and its Electrophoretic Separation in Agarose Gels, Theresa Brick-Miller
Thesis: Factors that Influence Prepared Childbirth Couples' Use of Epidural Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery, Terri S. Chambers
Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Elastic-Plastic Finite Element Analysis of Fatique Crack Growth and Closure, Rahmatollah G. Chermahini
Thesis: The Effect of the Revolution on Norfolk Politics, Mary C. Chrysostomides
Thesis: General John Henry Winder's Administration of Martial Law in Richmond, 1862-1864, John Michael Cobb
Thesis: Matoaka, June Nan Cooper
Thesis: The Image of the Nurse in a Professional Journal: A Historical Perspective, Dawn Louise Crane
Thesis: Fracture Detection in a Volcanic Oil Reservoir Using Discriminant Analysis of Well Log Data, Joseph William Cross
Thesis: The Pollen Exostructure of Striga (Scrophulariaceae), Mark A. DeLeonardis
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of the Cardiovascular Activity of Novel Imidazole Ring Systems, Joseph E. De Los Angeles
Dissertation: The Effect of Grinding on the Sorption Capacity of Activated Carbon, John Garrett Dempsey
Dissertation: Attributions for Violence in Relationships: Do Battered Women Blame Themselves?, Debra Down
Dissertation: The Impact of an Intrusive Orientation Model on the Retention and Grade Point Average of Second Semester Freshmen on Academic Probation at an Urban University, Walter Rupert Earl
Dissertation: Tidal Circulation in Chesapeake Bay, Carl W. Fisher
Dissertation: The Effects of Environmental Stress on Financial Planning for Retirement, Gerald Lee Gamache
Thesis: Preferred Provider Organizations: Developmental Indicators, Marcia Anne Guida
Thesis: The Remarkable John Bigelow, Jr.: An Examination of Professionalism in the United States Army, 1877-91, Howard K. Hansen Jr.
Thesis: A Histological Investigation of the Larval Mandibular Organ in the Mud Crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould) (Crustacea Decapoda Xanthidae), Lore Lynn Hantske
Thesis: Determination of Human Sperm Cell Acrosin Activity from Normal and Subfertile Men, Dilrowshan H. Haque
Thesis: Generic Specifications in LIL and in Ada via Analogies, George Chester Harrison
Thesis: Vatican II and the Answer to the Jewish Question, Ronald Lee Harris
Dissertation: Estimation in Truncated Exponential Family of Distributions, Laxman M. Hegde
Dissertation: Job Analysis and Job Evaluation Method Choice: User Qualifications and Implications for Applications and Research, James S. Herndon
Dissertation: An Inquiry Into the Influence of Expressive Writing Practice on the Transactional Writing Abilities of Selected Fourth Grade Students, Maureen Elliott Hook
Thesis: The Troubadour Poets: Their Influence on Their Times, Georgia M. Jarrell
Thesis: Decreasing Allied Support for Anti-Soviet Strategic Embargoes a Demonstration of the Declining Hegemony of the United States, Tracey A. Johnstone
Thesis: Effects of Air Polishing and Rubber Cup Polishing on Enamel Abrasion, April Kee
Dissertation: The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Revitalization: A Case Study on the Redevelopment of Downtown Norfolk, Virginia 1935-1985, Marvin W. Lee
Dissertation: The Effect of Mobility on the Academic Performance of Grade Six Students in an Urban School, Arnold Hugo Lindblad Jr.
Thesis: Lineament Analysis in the Richmond Triassic Basin Area Virginia: A Kinematic Model, Richard D. Lutz
Dissertation: Patterns of Diurnal Vertical Distribution and Dispersal-Recruitment Mechanisms of Decapod Crustacean Larvae and Postlarvae in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Adjacent Offshore Waters, Robert Copeland Maris
Dissertation: The Development of a Paper-and-Pencil Measure of Complex Cognitive-Perceptual Aptitude, Don Michael McAnulty
Thesis: Organic Matter Budgets and Models for Four Plant Communities in the Great Dismal Swamp, J. Patrick Megonigal
Thesis: The Fleet Landing Exercises and the Development of Modern American Amphibious Doctrine, W. Howard Meissel Jr.
Dissertation: The Effects of Classification Systems on Management and Access in Selected Elementary School Libraries, Ellen L. Miller
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Head Nurse Role Perceptions in Acute Care Hospitals, Margaret A. Miller
Thesis: Effectiveness of a Hydrogen Peroxide, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Bicarbonate Dentifrice Upon Microbiota Associated with Periodontitis, Jill M. Modi
Thesis: Environmental Factors Affecting Nocturnal Migrations of Macrobenthos, C. Timothy Morris
Thesis: Storm Surge Predictions at Sewell's Point with Local Wind, Pressure, and Previous Surge as Surge Predictors in Chesapeake Bay, Joy Elaine Moses
Thesis: Relationship of Stream Drainage and Airphoto-Derived Lineaments to Basement Structures in the North Central Virginia Coastal Plain, William F. Mullen
Dissertation: An Analytical and Experimental Study of Clearance and Bearing-Bypass Load Effects in Composite Bolted Joints, Rajiv Vikas Arun Naik
Thesis: Urbanization and Environmental Change in the Lynnhaven Estuary, Randal D. Owen
Thesis: A Quantitative Approach to Simulation and Analysis of Storm Water Systems, John Nathan Paine
Thesis: Benthic Foraminifera and Paleoenvironments of the Arcola Limestone Member Mooreville Formation (Campanian) in Eastern Mississippi and Western Alabama, Julia K. Palmer
Thesis: Confederate Leather Supply: Industrial Improvisation in the Confederacy, James E. Parker III
Thesis: Clinical Effectiveness of ListerineR and ViadentR Mouthrinses on Bacterial Plaque and Gingivitis, Debra Pizzola Powell
Thesis: Pregravid Weight, Prenatal Weight Gain and Maternal Age as Risk Factors in Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension Development, Maryellen C. Remich
Thesis: The Effects of Luteinizing Hormone and Adenosine 3',5'-Cyclic Monophosphate on Phospholipid Metabolism by Luteal Mitochondria, Jim John Sadighian
Thesis: Investigation of Nickle as a Matrix Modifier in the Atomic Absorption Analysis of Tin, Charles William Saunders
Thesis: Bark or Bite Perspectives on Economic Sanctions for Foreign Policy Objectives, Rodney W. Skotty
Thesis: The Effect of Pre-Sterile Medium PH Photoperiod and N6-(2-Isopentenyl)-Adenine (2IP) on Shoot Production During Stage II Micropropagation of Rhododendrons, Lori Longo Smith
Thesis: Use of Two Data Collection Strategies to Evaluate Stressors and Coping in Spouses of Patients Sustaining a Myocardial Infarction, Pamalla Manz Stockho
Dissertation: Estimating the Utility of Job Performance the Influence of the Delphi Technique and Behavioral Examples on Supervisors' Estimates, Scott I. Tannenbaum
Dissertation: A Study of the Effectiveness of Developmental Reading and Writing Courses at Old Dominion University, Jimi Thomas-Muskovac
Dissertation: Investigation of Vscous/Inviscid Interaction in Transonic Flow Over Airfoils With Suction, Chadra S. Vemuru
Thesis: Geometric Photoisomer Investigation of Bilirubin (Z,Z)-IXα, Robert Howe Walker III
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Thesis: Controlling the Big Stick: The United States Navy and the Cuban Intervention of September 1906, Christopher A. Abel
Thesis: Removing Fluoride from Drinking Water By Organic Polymers, Eleni Davou Achilleos
Thesis: Feasibility Studies of Conversion Electron Mossbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS) of Iron-Doped InP, Edward Agyekum
Thesis: Lineament Analysis and Tectonic Interpretation for the Central Tharsis Region, Mars, Robert C. Anderson
Dissertation: Unsteady Transonic Flow Over Slender Bodies, Cevdet Aydun
Thesis: Fluvial Depositional Processes of a Tropical River, Colombia, South America, Michael L. Babuin
Thesis: The Short Term Effect of a Dental Health Fair on Children's Attitudes Toward Plaque Control, Fluorides, Nutrition, and Receiving Dental Treatment, Sue Nell Bethea
Thesis: Acetylcholinesterase in the Neonatal Rat Brain: The Effects of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure, Linda M. Boland
Thesis: The Role of the Nurse Middle Manager in a Military Health Care Setting, Terry Brown
Thesis: The American-British Alliance of World War II and the Debate Over European Strategy, Emory Allen Burton
Thesis: The Effect of Intuition on Creativity as Discussed by Several Individuals of Creative Genius, Mary Jean Campbell
Thesis: The Ellet Family and Riverine Warfare in the West--1861-1865, Jesse L. Chapman
Thesis: Design of a Modulation System Simulator, Vincent Carl Dale
Thesis: A Geophysical Model of the Gravity-Magnetic High, Virginia Coastal Plan, Gordon Everett Davison
Thesis: Determination of Total and Unfilterable Plasma Aluminum in Uremic Patients, Theodore R. Delbridge
Dissertation: An Evaluation of Education Programs for Pregnant Teens in Three Selected Urban Virginia Communities, Susan K. Eilberg
Thesis: The Relationship Between Habitat Structure and Small Mammal Communities in Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, Roger Keith Everton
Thesis: The Direct Summation of Totally Self-Checking Checkers, Stefean Andrew Fedyschyn
Thesis: Absorption Cross-Sections of Sodium Diatomic Molecules, Zeng-Shevan Fong
Thesis: Selecting Non-Point Source Pollution Treatment Practices Using Linear Optimization, John Gardy Garland III
Thesis: Depositional Model for the Auriferous Gravels in the Payan Mining District Department of Narino, Columbia, South America, Jim R. Garrett
Thesis: Small Farmers' Cooperatives in Brazil, 1964-1984 Reasons for Success or Failure, Henry H. Gerber
Thesis: Portrait of the Scientific Journals in Germany: 1930-1936, Paul Eugene Gesling Jr.
Thesis: Foraminiferal Paleoenvironments of the Eastover Formation (Upper Miocene Virginia), JoAnn H. Goshorn
Dissertation: Laity Expectations of Ministers in the Black Urban Church: A Study of Political and Social Expectations in the Context of Ministry to Community and World, James Henry Harris
Thesis: The Apparent Dissociation Constants of Carbonic Acid in Low Salinity Waters, Ching-Hui Hsu
Thesis: Development of an On-Line Computer System for Cyclic Voltammetry Studies, Tai-Lee Leo Huo
Dissertation: Minimal Norm Constrained Interpolation, Larry Dean Irvine
Thesis: A Humanistic Consideration of the Farm Security Administration Photographs Made in Virginia, Brooks Johnson
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of a New Analog of Phencyclidine (PCP), William H. Johnson Jr.
Dissertation: Analyses of Quasi-Isotropic Composite Plates Under Quasi-Static Point Loads Simulating Low-Velocity Impact Phenomena, Ajit Dhundiraj Kelkar
Dissertation: The Effects of Training in Safe Manual Handling on the Patient Lifting Techniques of Nursing Personnel, Bruce Paul Klein
Thesis: Living Reflections, Lorane Leavy