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 1981
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: Incorporation of Carbon-14 Metabolites into the Sex Pheromon 26-Dichlorophenol of Dermacentor andersoni Stiles; and the Disruption of Pheromone Activity in D. andersoni and D. variabilis (SAY) by Quinones, Daniel Martin Gainsburg
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: Fine Structure of the Nucleus and Cytoplasmic Feulgen-Positive Areas in the Developing Oocyte of Argus (Persicargas) radiatus, Bonnie J. Harding
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 Evolution of the Fleet Submarine in the United States Navy, Robert P. Kendall
Thesis: The African Foreign Policy of the German Democratic Republic, Heide R. Kersey
Thesis: Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Anatid Herpesvirus, Margaret Anne Lewis
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: An Evaluation of Small Rodent Populations in Four Dismal Swamp Plant Communities, Fiona Elizabeth Breidling
Thesis: The Association of Semen Factors with the Recovery of Ureaplasma urealyticum, Rebecca D. Cintron
Thesis: The Effects of 712-Dimethylbenz (A) Anthracene on Ovarian Steroidogenesis and Uterine Growth in the Mouse, Jeffrey Lynn Clark
Thesis: The Feasibility of Commercial Scale Culture of Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser Oxyrhynchus, Christopher John Coffing
Thesis: The Irish Land Question 1848-1870, Sara A. Coski
Thesis: Cornelius L. Moore: A Northern Soldier's Perspective on the Civil War, Roger T. Crew Jr.
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: Dr. Félix-Roland Moumié and the Revolution in French Cameroon, 1948-1960, Gregory Kurt Glassner
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
Thesis: Macrobenthic Communities of an Industrialized Seaport Ecosystem: The Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Steven D. Hawthorne
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: Morphological Variation Among 14 Species of Callogobius Bleeker (Pisces: Gobiidae), James Francis McKinney
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: Isolation and Enumeration of Enteric Viruses From Primary Wastewater Sludge, Michael Wayne Nath
Thesis: Finite Element Model of a Timoshenko Beam with Structural Damping, Louis Ablen Roussos
Thesis: Multiple Methods of Analysis of 2'-O-Methylation in 5.8S rRna, Sharon H. Ryan
Dissertation: Analytic and Experimental Studies of a True Airspeed Sensor, Joseph Yao-Cheng Shen
Thesis: Germination and Haustorial Development in Orobanche Minor Smith (Orobanchaceae), David L. Spelce
Dissertation: Influence of Nonequilibrium Radiation and Shape Change on the Flowfield of a Jupiter Probe With Ablation and Mass Injection, Sundaresa Venkata Subramanian
Thesis: Use of Disclosing Tablets and Signs of Gingival Bleeding for Improving the Oral Health and Oral Hygiene Status of Adult Dental Clients, Susan Elaine Thompson
Thesis: Distribution of the Dinoflagellate Symbiosis in Astragia danae as Affected by Light Attenuation, Michael Perry Weston
Thesis: Multiple Forms of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Glycohydrolase from Bull Semen, Stanley D. Yeatts II
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Thesis: The Effects of Proton Irradiation on the Absorption of Multi Component Glasses, Marcia Frances Bartusiak
Thesis: The Effects of United States Inter-American Policy on U.S. Relations with Chile, 1958-1978, Michael Hunter Brown
Thesis: Swimming as a Determinate to Immigration for Two Small Mammals in Coastal Virginia, Jeffrey Lewis Carter
Dissertation: Turbulence Spectra in a Well-Mixed Estuary, Jong Yul Chung
Thesis: Effect of the Rubber-Cup Prophylaxis and the Self-Administered Prophylaxis on the Oral Hygiene Performance of the Pedodontic Patient, Kay Diane Edwards
Thesis: Core Size, Pricing, and Cost Structure, William K. Edwards
Thesis: Structure of a Subtidal Benthic Community Near Cape Charles, Virginia, R. Michael Ewing
Thesis: Franck Condon Factors and R-Centeroids for Six Diatomic Molecules, Patricia M. Fazio
Thesis: Blacks In Norfolk Virginia During the 1930's, Norma Cromwell Fields
Thesis: The Development of Techniques for the Enumeration of Selected Pathogenic Bacteria in Lynnhaven Estuarine Sediments, Mark T. Frank
Thesis: Feeding Morphologies and Distribution Patterns of Marine Cladocera in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Sandra Layne Gilchrist
Dissertation: Production of a Population of the Stout Razor Clam (Tagelus plebeius Solander) in a Virginia Estuary, Mark James Grussendorf
Thesis: The Source and Substance of Liberalism in the Protestant Episcopal Church, Jo Ann McAllister Hobart
Thesis: A Painful Case: The Wright-Sanborn Incident in Norfolk, Virginia July-October, 1863, Ervin Leon Jordan Jr.
Thesis: Detection of Unique Tumor-Associated Proteins in the Urine of Patients with Transitional Cell Carcinoma by High Resolution Two-Dimensional Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, Robert David Lehman
Thesis: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fish Eggs and Larvae in Hempstead Bay Estuary, Joseph Adelard Lessard
Thesis: Measuring Empathy in Female Hygiene Students, Patricia R. Mason
Thesis: A Potential Macroregulatory Mechanism for Growth Regulation in Neurospora crassa, Martha Mooney
Thesis: Norfolk in the First World War, Stephen Paul Nasca
Thesis: American Perceptions of Chinese Communism 1945-1950, Edward C. O'Dowd
Thesis: Seasonal Feeding Habits of the River Otter (Lutra canadensis) in Ditches of the Great Dismal Swamp, Ronnie M. Pierce
Dissertation: Curing and Flow of Thermosetting Resins for Composite Materials Pultrusion, Howard L. Price Jr.
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of the Potential Antineoplastic Activity of the Semicarbazone and the Thiosemicarbazone Derivatives of the Di-2-Pyridyl Ketone and the 1,8-Diazafluorenone Ring Systems, Adriene Y. Principe
Thesis: Animal-Sediment Relationship Study of the Western Branch of the Lynnhaven River, Charles Perry Seymour
Thesis: A Study of Decision Making: The Case of Brown and Root, Inc., Mary Blossom Springle
Thesis: Studies on the Anatomy of the Parasitic Gymnosperm Parasitaxus Ustus (Podocarpaceaea), Evelyn Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Thesis: Mercury, Copper, and Zinc in Selected Ichthyofauna of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, Virginia, W. Bruce Aitenhead
Thesis: Urban Life in Edinburgh, 1500-1540, Mary Elizabeth Ball