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 1983
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: The Effects of the Mud Snail Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say) Upon the Benthic Community of Broad Bay, Virginia, Wick Timothy Harlan
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
Thesis: Adaptations of Dolphin Vision to the Oceanic Environment, Andre Rivamonte
Thesis: A Quantitative Study of the Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in an Irregularly Flooded Salt Marsh, Smith Island, Virginia, Leon L. Robert Jr.
Thesis: Valuing in the Arts, Nonna B. Runner
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Closed Surge Tanks By Phase-Plane Method, Mostafa A. Sabbah
Thesis: Homing and Ecology in the Southern Flying Squirrel, Glaucomys volans in Southeastern Virginia, Sherrie Lynn Sawyer
Dissertation: Employee Perceptions of Performance Appraisal Systems: Causal Determinants of Fairness, Accuracy, and Acceptability, Michael Dale Secunda
Dissertation: Implementation Evaluation of a Social Detoxification Program, Thomas M. Slaven
Thesis: Evaluating the Effects of Alum with Polyelectrolyte Coagulant Aids in Treatment of Low Turbidity Waters, Kenneth John Stockwell
Dissertation: On the Space Shuttle Wing Thermal-Structural Analysis, Kumar Krishna Tamma
Dissertation: Close-Coupling Calculations for NaAr, NaNe, and NaHe, Linda Lindroth Vahala
Thesis: Registered Nurses' Ability to Discriminate Similar Human Need Fulfillment Alterations Specific to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and to Diabetes Mellitus, Kathleen Bowen Waite
Thesis: Collision-Induced Bands of Lithium-Rare Gas Molecules, Wen Jong Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: The Evening Parade A History of the Marine Corps' Most famous Ceremony, John H. Admire
Thesis: An Analysis of a Sample of Parents and University Freshmen in Regard to Their Attitudes Toward the Needs of Sex Education in Community Schools, Linda C. Aleksa
Thesis: A Laboratory Study of Nongenetic Embryonic Adaptation to Salinity and Its Subsequent Effects Upon Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthius, Paul Jay Anninos
Thesis: Some Effects of the Polychaete Nereis Succinea Frey and Leukart 1847 on the Distribution of Copper Cadmium and Zinc in Sediments and Water, Gabriela Kitzig August
Thesis: Variation in Leaf Macronutrients of Overstory Trees as Influenced by Species Season and Soil Type in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Bruce J. Bandle
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: Forgotten Campaign: The Siege of Suffolk, April 11 - May 4, 1863, Steven A. Cormier
Thesis: Charles M. Davies (1828-1910): Cleric, Writer, Educator, Spiritualist, Thomas M. Costa
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: The 1969 Democratic Party Gubernatorial Primary: A Watershed in Virginia Political History, Patrick Anthony Parr
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: The William H. Sheppard African Art Collection at Hampton Institute, Richard A. Singletary
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
Thesis: Algal Dynamics in a Cypress Stand in the Seasonally Flooded Great Dismal Swamp, Joseph A. Atchue III
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.