ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Thesis: Finite Element Formulation of a Three-Node Spatially Curved and Twisted Beam, Umesh Vishnu Padhye
Thesis: The Student Movement at Old Dominion: 1964-1970, Patrick Joseph Pané
Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Chemotherapy, John Carl Panetta
Thesis: Nutritional Condition of Striped Bass (Morone Saxatilis) Larvae as Determined by Constituent Lipid Analysis, William Frank Patterson III
Thesis: Movement Patterns and Habitat Use of the Copperhead Snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) in Southeastern Virginia, Christopher Edwin Petersen
Thesis: Predictive Value of Apgar Scores When Developmental Rates are Established: An Elimination of Corrections for Prematurity, Daniel M. Phillips III
Thesis: The Civil War as a Catalyst for the Professionalization of Nursing, Rosemary Plum
Dissertation: The Influence of National Culture on Work-Related Values and Job Satisfaction Between American and Filipino Registered Nurses, Karin Polifko-Harris
Dissertation: Analysis of Growth Curves Under Some Special Covariance Structures, Shobha Prabhala
Dissertation: New Paradigms for Evaluating Performance and Performance Persistency of Domestic and Globally Diversified Portfolios, Larry Joseph Prather
Thesis: A Bio-Cybernetic System for Regulating Operator Engagement in an Adaptively Automated, Multi-Task Flight Environment, Lawrence J. Prinzel III
Dissertation: Demography, Reproduction, Diet and Crop Depredation in Three Species of Rodents in Natural and Irrigated Fields in Nigeria, Safianu Rabiu
Thesis: Generalization Metrics for Neural Modeling Applications in System Identification, Denise M. Reeves
Dissertation: The Effects of the Recommendations of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission on State Funding for the School Divisions of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, James T. Roberts
Thesis: The Effects of Fragrance Instructional Set, and Boredom Proneness on Performance in a Vigilance Task, Sheryl Lynn Roberts
Dissertation: A Formative Analysis of the Full Integration of Students with Severe and Profound Disabilities in Age-Appropriate Elementary School Classrooms, Nancy Cheshire Rosenblatt
Dissertation: Compensation and Characterization of Gallium Arsenide, Randy A. Roush
Thesis: "A Geological Interpretation of the Stanley Fault and Other Thrust Faults in Page County, Virginia", Michael James Sarros
Dissertation: Effects of Direct Reading Instruction on Literacy Achievement in Urban, Literature Based Classrooms, Steven M. Scarcelli
Thesis: Development of a Cross Generational Measure of Altruism, Paul G. Schloemer
Dissertation: Multiple Intelligences and the Gifted Identification of African-American Students, Oscar Scott Jr.
Thesis: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Upper Indus-Fan Complex a Model for Fan Development, Syed Firasat Shah
Thesis: Zooplankton Community Dynamics in the Elizabeth River, Virginia, William C. Sharp
Thesis: The Entry of the People's Republic of China Into the Korean War, Yueliang Shen
Thesis: Affective Reactions, Social Support and Willingness to Self-Disclose to HIV Seropositive Individuals: Impact of Sexual Orientation and Responsibility for the Infection, Susan Paige Sherburne
Thesis: Automatic Differentiation for First- and Second-Order Sensitivity Derivatives of a CFD Code, Laura Lee Sherman
Dissertation: From Realist to Constructivist Theory in Public Administration: Development of a Quality Perspective, Ernest Edward Sides III
Dissertation: Dynamic Unstructured Method for Prescribed and Aerodynamically Determined Relative Moving Boundary Problems, Kamakhya Prasad Singh
Thesis: Late Cretaceous Foraminifera as Indicators of Sequence Boundaries, Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A., Kimberly A. Smith
Dissertation: An Analysis of the Impact of Race, Socioeconomic Status and Gender on Juvenile Justice Case Processing in a Southeastern C-Level Metropolitan Area, Melanie Wynell Smith
Thesis: The Distribution of Rice Rats (Oryzomys palustris) and Meadow Voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Tidal Marsh Communities on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Allison L. Sowell
Dissertation: A Feasibility Study of Dynamical Assimilation of Tide Gauge Data in the Chesapeake Bay, Yvette H. Spitz
Thesis: Fine Root Biomass Distribution and Production Along a Barrier Island Chronosequence, Mark Jeffrey Stevenson
Thesis: The Kinetic Characterization of Mutant L289p of Recombinant HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase, Tryn Thomas Stimart
Dissertation: An investigation of the Speed and Power Limitations of a Copper-Doped Gallium Arsenide Photoconductive Switch, David Clifton Stoudt
Thesis: Copper Complexation Capacity and Copper Speciation in Freshwater Lakes (Lake Western Branch and Lake Prince), Rachide Ibrahimo Abdul Sultana
Thesis: Fault Tolerance in Critical Real-Time Systems, Balaji Tirukarneswaran
Dissertation: Investigation of the Substrate Recognition Characteristics and Kinetics of Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA Topoisomerase I, Zeki Topcu
Dissertation: Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of the Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA), John Karl Troyer
Dissertation: The Effects of Partial Hospitalization on Acute Psychiatric Hospital Readmission Days, William E. Turner III
Thesis: "Preservation...From the Dangers of the Enemy as Well as Seas": The Establishment of the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, Kevin Charles Valliant
Thesis: Real-Time Communication in the Algorithm to Architecture Mapping Model, Somesh M. Varma
Dissertation: Thermocline Circulation Driven at Surface Outcrops of Isopycnal Surfaces, Gudavalli V. R. K. Vittal
Thesis: No Other Track: Russell Hoban and the Literary Pilgrim, Eric G. Waggoner
Thesis: System Dynamic Modeling of Activity and Flow Relationships in Plant Layout Problems, Gary Allen Weaver
Thesis: Stephen Crane and "The Subtle Brotherhood of Men", Christian Robert Weisser
Thesis: Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Divorce" Ethnicity in the Post-Cold War World, Jonathan Robert Wert
Thesis: Structural Characterization of a Novel Inhibitor of HIV Reverse Transcriptase (HIV RT), Greggory Jon Woitte
Dissertation: A Nonlinear Dynamic Method for Supporting Large-Scale Decision-Making in Uncertain Environments, Wayne Woodhams
Dissertation: Elimination of Edge Effects Using Spline Wavelets Which Maintain a Uniform Two-Scale Relation, Sang Kyu Yang
Dissertation: Demonstration of a Method for the Development of a Team Classification System, Ann Marie Yanushefski
Dissertation: Measurement of Hyperfine Coupling Constants of the 5d²D₃/₂ and 5d²D₅/₂ Levels in Atomic Cesium Using Polarization Quantum Beat Spectroscopy, Wo Yei
Dissertation: Atomic Broadcast in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, Osman ZeinElDine
Dissertation: A Relativistic Model for Heavy Mesons, Jialin Zeng
Thesis: Fetal Heart Rate Detection with a Passive Acoustic Sensor System, Zongyao Zhou
Dissertation: Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Myogenic Reactivity in Isolated Arterioles, Hui Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Thesis: Optimization of Electron-Beam Activated GaAs Switches, Raymond Jack Allen III
Dissertation: Psychosocial Determinants of Age-Appropriate Immunizations of Infants in Norfolk, Virginia, Hoda Youssef Atta
Thesis: A Study of the Thermodynamic and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Two-Phase Two-Component Flow with Application to a Solar-Assisted Heat Pump, Walid A. Aziz
Thesis: The Pollution Effects of Pleasure/Work Boat Sewage Discharges on Fecal Contamination Levels of Waters in and Around Marinas and Other Places Where Boats are Moored on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, George H. Bangs
Thesis: The Appropriation of Nietzschean Thought by Donald Kuspit in the Critic Is Artist: The Intentionality of Art and the Existential Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub, Frederic S. Bayersdorfer
Dissertation: Building a Consensus for the Development of National Standards in History, Mary Vassilikou Bicouvaris
Thesis: Threats, Carol DĹynn West Bleyle
Dissertation: Analysis of Human Sperm Chromatin Integrity, Silvina M. Bocca
Thesis: The Effects of Perceived Upward Influence Rewards and Personality Moderators on Job Satisfaction and Productivity in an Employee Suggestion Program, David J. Braun
Thesis: Diamond Thin Film Sensors for Hypersonic Flow Studies, Bhaskar Kumar Bulusu
Dissertation: An Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA in Rett Syndrome and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders, Catherine Erickson Burgess
Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Using Discrete Sensitivity Analysis, Gregory Wayne Burgreen
Thesis: Against a Politics of Desire: Lesbians Romance and Film, Angela Anelalani Cantrell
Thesis: Social Change in Rural Alaska: Attitudes, Sense of Belonging, and Migration Intentions of High School Students, Lisa R. Carley
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Victimization Experiences and Family Dynamics of Adolescent Sexual Offenders and Nonsexual Offending Delinquents, Alicia Ann Chavis
Thesis: Stress Fields in Composites with a Variable Interphase Under Thermo-Mechanical Loadings, Nianfeng Chen
Thesis: Electrodermal Activity as a Function of Name Stimulus Match and Facial Familiarity, Donald Cherry
Dissertation: Dosimetry of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Beams Using Energy-Dependent Green's Functions, Sang Yull Chun
Dissertation: The Role of Nitrogen Availability, Hydroperiod and Litter Quality in Root Decomposition Along a Barrier Island Chronosequence, Christine Elizabeth Conn
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Black and White Girls' Delinquency, Kenya Larae Covington
Thesis: An Ounce of Truth, Matilda Wyche Cox
Thesis: A Literary Evaluation of Black Female Interaction in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Mesozooplankton in the Pagan River, a Nutrient Enriched Virginia Estuary, Lillian Norman Davis
Thesis: Body-Image Disturbances in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: A Meta-Analysis of Extant Research, Edwin A. Deagle III
Thesis: The Laissez Faire Political Vision of John Milton in Paradise Lost, Gerald Keith Delles
Thesis: Aboveground Biomass and Net Primary Production Along a Virginia Barrier Island Dune Chronosequence, John Joseph DiLustro
Thesis: Cardiovascular, Thermoregulatory, Metabolic and Performance Responses to Repeated Ultraendurance Cycling, Bart E. Drinkard
Thesis: Optimal Active and Passive Control Design for a Slewing Piezoelectric Laminate Beam, Travis V. DuBois
Thesis: Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl
Dissertation: Linguistic Theory Applied to Teaching Practice: Looking Through Linguists' Eyes at an Urban ESL Classroom, Caroline Mary El-Kadi
Dissertation: The Effects of an Urban Middle School Dropout Prevention Program on the Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitudes, and Conflict Resolution Skills of At-Risk Student, Patricia Hawkins Fisher
Thesis: An Assessment of Four-Hour Sample Durations Used to Determine Full-Shift Noise Exposures in a Foundry, Vince Marlo Fleming
Dissertation: An Urban Education Study: Implementing Problem-Solving Strategies in Mathematics as a Function of Teacher's Learning Styles, Mary Lou Meinhold Fogarty
Dissertation: Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the Inner Shelf and Coastal Zone, Southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia, Anthony M. Foyle
Dissertation: The Contribution of Selected Cognitive and Noncognitive Variables to the Academic Success of Medical Technology Students, Mildred Keels Fuller
Thesis: The Role of Laughter in the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul D. Gerdes
Thesis: Correlation Between Hamstring Spasticity and Range of Motion and Selected Gait Parameters in Pediatric Clients with Spastic Diplegia, Erin McCain Glace
Dissertation: A Study to Determine Whether Oral Delivery Style, in Presenting Poetry to Students, Significantly Effects the Level of Responsiveness to the Poetry, William H. Goff II
Thesis: Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attribution of Responsibility, Dennis W. Goodwin
Dissertation: Investigation of Wall Injectors for Supersonic Mixing Enhancement, Yaacov Haimovitch
Dissertation: Teamwork in the Workplace: A Discovery of the Work Processes One Team Used to Meet Its Goals, Thomas Andrew Hassler
Thesis: The Influence of Seawalls on Beach Responses to Storms, Seasonal Transitions and Long-Term Erosion, John Marshall Hazelton
Thesis: Biofeedback Gait Training Auditory Vs. Visual Techniques, Timothy D. Hiemenz
Thesis: The Identification and Magnitude Estimation of Occupational Stressors in the Industrial Hygiene Profession, Judith Hinch