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 1980
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: A Different Light: Jefferson Views Henry, 1759-1784, Thomas Wesley Redman
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: The Historical Development of the Church of God Publishing House 1908-1935, Robert Joel Trammell
Thesis: Civil Pageantry in the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, 1558-1625, Marjorie Ann Watkins
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
Thesis: Edmund Burke: Representative of Bristol and New York Agent, Mary Ellen Ferratt Yoder
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
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: The Piedmont Railroad: A Reflection of Confederate Railroad Policy, David Maurice Self
Thesis: Effect of Precursor Heating on Radiating and Chemically Reacting Viscous Flow Around a Jovian Entry Body, Kuo Yen Szema
Thesis: The American Family in a Decade of Change: The 1950s, Calvin Bryon Thomas
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 Influence of Renaissance Neoplatonism on Michelangelo, Judith Carole Riley
Thesis: The Effects of Electron Irradiation on MOSFETs, Mark D. Skeldon
Thesis: The German Communist Struggle 1918-1923, Steven Ross Thulin
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
Thesis: Selected Letters from the Parker Family Papers: The Correspondence of Margaret Parker, Carmeline V. Zimmer
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