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.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Thesis: Experiments in Attempted Interspecific and Interpopulational Hybridzation of Grass Shrimp of the Genus Palaemonetes (Caridea Palaemonidae), Mark Andrew Boston
Thesis: The Relationship of Bottom Sediments to the Current-Generated Topography on Crumps Bank and Willoughby Bank, Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Eugene Robert Brush
Thesis: French Diplomacy in Italy, 1450-1463, Mary Jane Callahan
Thesis: The Fall and Winter Food Habits of the Black Bear (Ursus Americanus) in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Francis Leonard Daniel
Thesis: The Effect of the French Revolution on Charles James Fox and the Direction of British Politics, 1789-1794, Robert Breckenridge Daughtrey
Thesis: Republican Ideology and American Diplomats: The Roles of John Jay and James Monroe, Helen Kello Hill
Thesis: The British Diplomatic Response to the Central American Policies of the Franklin Pierce Administration, 1853-1856, William Mark Hillsman
Thesis: Life Goals of Five Dental Hygiene Groups in Three Educational Settings, Kathleen Olivia Hodges
Thesis: Sir Robert Peel, 1846-1850: Unwilling Leader of a Splinter Party, Donald A. Kerr
Thesis: Values of Dental Hygienists in Three Different Occupational Settings, Adele Cereghino Koot
Dissertation: Design, Calibration, and Application of a Sensor for Measuring Time Dependent Angle of Attack of Helicopter Blades, Weiyuan Henry Liu
Thesis: Conservation According to the Pure Theory of Exhaustible Resources, George Lymbouris
Thesis: Herbaceous Production in Burned-Cut Burned-Uncut and Control Areas of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides (L.) BSP (Cupressaceae) Stand in the Great Dismal Swamp, Caroline Elisabeth McKinley
Dissertation: The Response of an Idealized Continental Shelf to Atmospheric Forcing, Paul Francis Moersdorf
Thesis: The Distribution of Several Metals and Cation Exchange Capacity in Sediment Fractions from an Artificial and Natural Marsh, James River, Virginia, William Nivens
Thesis: The Board of Strategy and Union Military Planning for Sea Operations Against the Southern Confederacy, Samuel Novotny
Thesis: Faust in His Study: The Paradox of Visual Representations and Poetic Possibilities, Donna Ramsey
Dissertation: Crack Propagation in Aluminum Sheets Reinforced With Boron-Epoxy, George Lawrence Roderick
Thesis: Effect of Precursor Heating on Radiating and Chemically Reacting Viscous Flow Around a Jovian Entry Body, Kuo Yen Szema
Dissertation: Analysis of Moisture Absorption and Diffusion in Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Resin-Matrix Composite Materials, Stephen Stern Tompkins
Dissertation: The Photosynthetic Action Spectra of the Phytoplankton and Their Role in Governing Spatial and Temporal Distribution: A Numerical Modeling Approach, William Morrow Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Thesis: Duck Plague Virus an Investigation of Cytopathic Effects, in-vitro Host Range, and Inhibition by Phosphonoacetic Acid, Ronald Attanasio
Thesis: A Baseline Study on the Possible Mechanisms of Larval Stomatopod Distribution on the Carolina Shelf, Carl Robert Berman Jr.
Thesis: An Evaluation of the Importance of the Period 1140-1270 in Western Civilization, Joyce Nell Brewster
Thesis: Suspended Matter and Light Attenuation in a Turbid Estuary, Daniel E. Campbell
Thesis: A Model to Investigate the Influence of Suspended Sediment on the Mass Transport of a Pollutant in Open Channel Flow, Raymond Scott Chapman
Thesis: Feeding Ecology of Black Sea Bass Centropristis striata on an Artificial Reef off Virginia (Perciforms: Serranidae), Ping K. Chee
Thesis: A Seasonal Study of Phytoplankton Composition Abundance and Productivity in Back Bay, Virginia, Robert Ringgold Comegys
Thesis: A Study of the Gas-Solid Reaction Between Hydrogen Sulfide and Mercury(I) Chloride; Development of a Method for Determination of Atmospheric Hydrogen Sulfide, Eric H. De Carlo
Thesis: The Effects of Oral Health in-Service Education in an Extended Care Facility, Marcia Brand Doloresco
Thesis: The Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis Reared in the Laboratory, William Ray Floyd III
Thesis: United States Foreign Policy and Mesopotamian Oil 1923-1928, Robert Francaviglia
Thesis: The Problem of Social Change as Seen in the Life and Work of Jean Jaurès and George Sorel, Frances Boyce Glover
Dissertation: Evaluation of Hydrogen as a Cryogenic Wind Tunnel Test Gas, Richard Carl Haut II
Thesis: U.S. Security Policy in Postwar Japan; The Making of a Cold War Ally, Thomas James Hehman
Thesis: Effect of Nitrite and Nitrate on the Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis, Carl Bingham Hinesman
Thesis: Temperature and Salinity Tolerance of the Larvae of the Sand Shrimp, Crangon Septemspinosa (Say), Karen Lyttle Hinsman
Dissertation: Precise Frequency Control of the Voltage Controlled Oscillator Using Finite Digital Word Lengths, Timothy Peter Hulick
Thesis: Creativity in Dental Hygiene Students and Dental Hygiene Professionals, Frances Lynne Jarrett
Thesis: Sediment Interstitial Dissolved Mercury and Carbon Relationships in an Artificial and Natural Marsh, James River, Virginia, Apostolos Katsaounis
Thesis: Demonstration of Unique Mycelial Components in Candida Albicans, David Jon Mancuso
Thesis: Description of the Larval Development of Squilla empusa Say (Crustacea Stomatopoda) with Aspects of Larval Ecology in Chesapeake Bay, Steven Gaines Morgan
Thesis: Contributions to the Reproductive Biology and Natural History of the Pirateperch, Aphredoderus Sayanus, Edward O. Murdy
Dissertation: Optimal Control of a Large Space Telescope Using an Annular Momentum Control Device, Arun Anant Nadkarni
Thesis: France, the United States and the Spanish-American War, Richard Henry Owens
Thesis: The Effects of Electron Irradiation on MOSFETs, Mark D. Skeldon
Thesis: Plant Distribution and Succession Within Interdunal Depressions on a Virginia Barrier Dune System, Robert Wayne Tyndall
Dissertation: Fundamental Analysis of the Linear Multiple Regression Technique for Quantification of Water Quality Parameters From Remote Sensing Data, Charles Henry Whitlock III
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Thesis: A Comparative Study of a Salt Water Impoundment with Its Adjacent Tidal Creek Pertinent to Culture of Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin), William D. Anderson III
Thesis: Effect of the Chesapeake-Elizabeth Sewage Outfall Virginia Beach, Virginia on the Distribution and Ecology of Benthic Foraminifera, James M. Bates Jr.
Thesis: Studies of the Purification of NAD-Dependent and NADP-Dependent Isocitrate Dehydrogenase by General Ligand Affinity Chromatography, Geoffrey H. Bertkau
Dissertation: Similitude of Mass Transfer Processes in Distorted Froude Model of an Estuary, Carvel Hall Blair
Thesis: Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoretic Studies Demonstrating Cytoplasmic Protein Components Unique to the Mycelial Phase and to the Yeast Phase of Candida albicans, Theresa Catherine Burgess
Thesis: The Effect of 4-Chlororesorcinol on the Growth Potential of Dunaliella Tertiolecta Butcher (Dun Clone), John Anthony Chigges
Thesis: Sex Pheromone Activity in the Foveal Glands in the Two Species of Ixodid Ticks: Dermacentor Andersoni (Stiles) and Dermacentor Variabilis (Say), Lynn Anne Collins
Thesis: The Pathophysiology of Acute Venous Occlusion, Lewis H. Curd Jr.
Thesis: Structural Comparisons of Four Plant Communities in the Great Dismal Swamp, Claire Virginia Dabel
Thesis: The Distribution of Submersed Hydrophytes in Currituck Sound, Steven Harry Davis
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Thermohaline Convection in the Mixed Layer of the Ocean, Victor Eli Delnore
Thesis: Variation in the Ecology Morphology and Behavior of the Troglobitic Amphipod Crustacean Crangonyx Antennatus Packard (Crangonchidae) from Different Habitats, Gary Wayne Dickson
Thesis: The Tiffany Glass Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Paul Edward Doros
Thesis: Control of Clay Mineral Distribution by Estuarine Circulation, James River Estuary, Virginia, Jean-Pierre Feuillet
Thesis: Topography, Shallow Structure, and Sedimentary Processes of the Atlantic Continental Slope off the Carolina Coast, Robert Michael Fitchko
Thesis: The United States Great Britain and the Status of Thailand (Siam), 1940-1946, Peter Goodwin
Thesis: Seasonal Distribution and the Retention of Some Decapod Crustacean Larvae Within the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Joseph William Goy
Thesis: Dynamics and Sedimentology of Inner Middle Ground - Nine Foot Shoal, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Mitchell Alan Granat
Thesis: An Investigation of the Nucleotide Cyclic 3'5' Adenosine Monophosphate in Young Hypocotyls of Pisum sativum L., Gary Marsh Hilton
Thesis: The Natural History of the Naked Goby Gobiosoma bosci (Perciformes: Gobiidae), Leonard L. Nero
Thesis: Improved Techniques for Marking, Night-Viewing, and Aging White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Barnard Hodge Powell
Thesis: A Batch Method for the Isolation of Immunogenically Pure IgG, IgA, and IgM from Human Sera, Samuel Christopher Powell
Thesis: The Effects of Dredging on the Stability of an Ebb-Tidal Delta, Lynnhaven Inlet, Virginia, Donald Keith Riggenbach
Thesis: Kinetic and Binding Studies on L-∝-Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase, Paul Richard Rosevear
Thesis: Test Variation in the Sand Dollar, Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), George Glynn Rountree
Thesis: The Food Habits of Ictalurus Natalis, Centrarchus Macropterus and Perca Flavescens in Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Steven C. Russell
Thesis: Stability and Local Effects of an Offshore Sand Storage Mound, Dam Neck Disposal Site, Virginia Inner Continental Shelf, William Joslyn Saumsiegle
Thesis: A Numerical Model for the Prediction of Tides and Tidal Currents in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, G. McAllister Sisson
Thesis: An Intensive Study of the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Donald Lynn Webster
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: Osteology of Trypauchenichthys sumatrensis Hardenburg, Christine Parrish Baer
Thesis: Northerners in the Reconstruction of Hampton, Virginia, 1865-1870, Gladys A. Blair
Thesis: The Synthesis of New Maleimide Addition Polymer Precursors, Richard B. Brown
Thesis: The Buchanan Administration and the Closing of the African Slave Trade, 1859-1861, David Earl Buckingham
Thesis: Sensitivity of a Gas Filter Correlation Instrument to Variations in Atmospheric Profile and Earth Surface Temperatures, Joseph C. Casas
Thesis: Measurement of Transpiration in Pinus Teada L. and Liquidambar Styraciflua L. in a Closed Environment Growth Chamber Using Tritiated Water, Jean K. Czoch
Thesis: The Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, James D. Haluska
Thesis: Genetic Studies of Cave and Spring Populations of the Freshwater Amphipod Crustacean Gammarus Minus Say, Steven Wolf Hetrick
Thesis: Imre Nagy and the First Phase of the Hungarian Revolution, William B. Liverman
Thesis: The Norman Conquest in English Historical Thought, Ann Gutting Mercer
Thesis: Application of Satellite Data and Lars' Data Processing Techniques to Mapping Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp, Jeffrey Allan Messmore
Thesis: Urbanization and Environmental Change in Lynnhaven Estuary, Don W. Oswalt
Thesis: Benjamin Butler and the Bureau of Negro Affairs in Tidewater, Virginia, 1861-1865, Steven Frank Petrine
Thesis: An Engineering Solution to Improve Water Quality in a Tidal Lagoon, Richard Warren Price
Thesis: Seasonal Distribution of Higher Marine and Aquatic Fungi in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Scott Schatz
Thesis: Microbenthic Algal Production of an Intertidal Sandflat in Little Creek Harbor, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Clayton Barry Shedrow
Thesis: Processes Controlling the Distribution of Methane in the Cariaco Tranch, Venezuela, Denis A. Wiesenburg
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: Feeding and Food Preferences by Three Sympatric Species of Cyprinodontid Fishes, Lawrence J. Baer
Thesis: Quantitative and Qualitative Seasonal Analysis of the Surface Zooplankton of Magothy Bay, Virginia, Malcom E. Browne
Thesis: Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, John F. Callan
Thesis: The Emergence of the Jacksonians: Rhode Island, a Case Study, 1827-31, James Michael Callow
Thesis: The Synthesis and Characterization of the 2,2'-Bisacylazide of 2,2'-Diphenyldicarboxylic Acid, Subrata Chatterjee
Thesis: The Thermal and Photolytic Rearrangements of Isatoic Acid Diazide, Ana Alejandre Ciereszko