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 1989
Dissertation: Hemispheric Effects of Response Hand and Concurrent Auditory and Visual Information Processing on Task Performance, Paula J. Guerette
Thesis: Isolation and Partial Characterization of Basic, Sperm-Specific, Nuclear Proteins in the Dog and Hampster, Richard William Hall
Dissertation: Mounting Sex Pheromone: A Novel Pheromone Responsible for Mate Recognition in the Ixodidae, JGC Hamilton
Thesis: A Comparison of Traditional and Non-Traditional Women's Preferences for Family Oriented Vs. Career Oriented Men, Lee M. Handeland
Thesis: Spectroscopic Study of Decomposition Products of Gossypol, David Bernard Hankins
Thesis: Factors Determining Peripheral Vascular Disease Clients' Intent to Adhere to Prescribed Behaviors, Gretchen Grahn Hitchcock
Thesis: Task-Hemispheric Integrity Effect: Level of Task Difficulty and Mental Workload in a Dual Task, Nancy E. Hite
Dissertation: On Vector Sequence Transforms and Acceleration Techniques, Steven L. Hodge
Thesis: Expert Systems for Automated Maintenance of a Mars Oxygen Production System, Ming-Tsang Ho
Dissertation: Detection of Outliers and Influential Observations in Regression Models, Anwar M. Hossain
Dissertation: Software Reliability Models, Syed Afzal Hossain
Thesis: Identification and Quantitation of Volatile Amines in Marine Sediments, Chuen Mei Huang
Thesis: Determinations of Molecular Weight and Molecular Weight Distribution of High Polymers by the Rheological Properties, Joan Y. Z. Huang
Dissertation: A Comparison of the Academic Achievement of Urban Second-Grade Pupils With Different Forms of Public Preschool Experience, Elva Williams Hunt
Thesis: The Effects of Nonlinearities on the Optimal Design of Forced Vibrating Beams, Cheryl Celestine Jackson
Dissertation: On the Unique Tree Representation of Graphs, Beverly Jamison
Thesis: The 93rd Division: A Victim of Domestic Politics, 1938-1945, Robert F. Jefferson
Dissertation: Platelet Function and Energy Metabolism During Storage in a Well-Defined Experimental Medium, Thais Edwina Ahrendt Keegan
Thesis: An Experimental Study of Dewatering of Alum Sludge, Uday G. Kelkar
Thesis: British Foreign Policy and the Crimean War A Study in Uncoordinated Diplomacy, Ronald W. Kennedy
Dissertation: Nuclear Fragmentation Energy and Momentum Transfer Distributions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Ferdous Khan
Thesis: Comparison of Digital Controllers Used in Magnetic Suspension and Balance Systems, William Allen Kilgore
Thesis: Studies on the Giant Mealie Witchweed, Striga forbesii Benth., in Zimbabwe, David Allen Knepper
Thesis: Party Politics During the Compromise Crisis: The Virginia Congressional Elections of 1849 and 1851, Jodi Lee Bennett Koste
Dissertation: Study of Direct Semiconductor Materials for an Optically Controlled Switch, Sung Taek Ko
Dissertation: Assessing Soccer Referee Performance Using Work Sample and Conventional Testing Methods, Robert L. Kuhnle
Thesis: Stability Design of a Slender Column with Curved Longitudinal Stiffeners, Mark S. Lake
Dissertation: Numerical Study of Three-Dimensional Separation and Flow Control at a Wing/Body Junction, Balakrishnan Lakshmanan
Thesis: Lithofacies of the Pliocene Yorktown Formation in the Vicinity of Kingsmill on the James River, Virginia, Michael David Lawless
Thesis: Domain Decomposition for Multigrid, Finite Volume Flow Solvers, Victor Robert Lessard
Thesis: Self-Concept and Its Relationship to Achievement in Minority Preschool Children, Larry Lennard Lindsey
Dissertation: A Classification Approach for Automated Reasoning Systems--A Case Study in Graph Theory, Rong Lin
Thesis: The Effects of Differential Task Instructions and Motivational States on Individual Creative Response Generation, James Clarke Llewellyn
Thesis: The Effects of Bending on the Strain Distributions in a Stiffener-Skin Interface Region, Osvaldo F. Lopez
Thesis: An Analysis and Evaluation on Printed Materials Used in Genetic Counseling, Janet L. MacArthur
Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Prevascular Tumor Growth by Diffusion, Sophia A. Maggelakis
Thesis: Cognitive, Retention and Transfer of Learning Consequences of Computer Assisted Instruction and Videotape Instruction with Registered Nursing Students, Linda McCormack-Miller
Thesis: Three American Resistance Leaders in the Philippine Islands During World War II, Brian W. McLean
Thesis: Investigating the Method of Structural Topological Variations for Sensitivity Analysis and Design Optimization, Niki A. Mehta
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Adolescent Fears, Martina Griffith Meyer
Thesis: Application of Shape Sensitivity Analysis for Computation of Transient Free-Surface Flows, Frank Nicolas Michel
Thesis: The Composition and Concentrations of Cyanobacteria in the North Landing River, Virginia and Upper Currituck Sound, North Carolina, Sonja E. Midgette
Thesis: Sojourn: A Time in Egypt, Deborah L. Miller
Thesis: Dynamic Analysis of Linear Structural System Using Ritz Vector Method and Substructuring Formulation, Vijay R. Modi
Dissertation: Andrological Methods of Predicting the Pregnancy Outcome of an in vitro Fertilization Program, Mahmood S. Morshedi
Thesis: Patient Satisfaction with Psychiatric Hospitalization: A Social Exchange Theory Approach, Jan H. Nelson
Thesis: Non-Linear Dynamics and Control for Thermal Room Models, Milind Prabhakar Oak
Dissertation: Nonlinear Solutions to a Two-Layer Quasi-Geostrophic Model of the Gulf Stream, Eiichi Oka
Thesis: Transient Hot-Film Sensor Response in a Shock Tube, Kelly Ryan Ortgies
Thesis: Signals Intelligence in World War II Ultra and the Air War in Europe, Demetrio J. Perez
Dissertation: The Effects of Life Stress and Risk-Taking Style on Risk Perception and Driver Performance, Christine B. Philput
Thesis: Couples' Interpretations of Unwanted Sexual Advances at Three Stages of a Dating Relationship, Kerrie D. Quinn
Thesis: Global/Local Stress Analysis of Composite Structures, Jonathan B. Ransom
Dissertation: The Identification of Gifted Children at the Kindergarten and First-Grade Level in an Urban and Rural Population, Flora Carter Roberts
Thesis: The Geomorphology and Surficial Geology of the West Flank of the Blue Ridge, Sherando Area, Virginia, Derek Weston Ryter
Thesis: Literary Visions of Edward II and Isabella of France, Dana L. Sample
Thesis: Identification and Ranking of Stressors in Nuclear Medicine Technology, Scott R. Sechrist
Dissertation: Effects of Nose Bluntness and Shock-Shock Interactions on Blunt Bodies in Viscous Hypersonic Flows, Dal J. Singh
Thesis: Hypoxanthine-Induced Differentiation of Cultured Human Leukemia Cells, Gayle Jennette Singleton
Thesis: Spire and Tower: The History, Architecture and Art of Two Norfolk, Virginia Churches, Judith L. Smith
Dissertation: Performance Modeling and Enhancement for the ATAMM Data Flow Architecture, Sukhamoy Som
Thesis: Politics of Self-Destruction: The Virginia Republican Party Split of 1895-1897, Michael Anthony Southwood
Thesis: The Electrical Characteristics of Semi-Insulating Gallium Arsenide A Material for High Power Switches, David Clifton Stoudt
Thesis: Articulation of Practical Nursing Programs to Institutes of Higher Learning, Gwendolyn T. Sweat
Thesis: The Determination of Tamoxifen Citrate in Human Blood Serum and Semen, Karimdad Tahmoresi
Dissertation: Evidence for the Role of Ecdysteroids in the Genital Sex Pheromone of Two species of Hard Ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) and Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, DeMar Taylor
Thesis: Honduras Pawn and Policy Maker, Elizabeth P. Thornton
Thesis: Containment, Cliency and the Revolution in Vietnam, Deborah Tompsett-Makin
Thesis: Simultaneous Determination of 3-Methoxy-4-Hydroxyphenyl-Glycol, Homovanillic Acid, and 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid in Plasma by High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Yung-Te Tseng
Dissertation: Optimal Row-Column Designs for Correlated Errors and Nested Row-Column Designs for Uncorrelated Errors, Nizam Uddin
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Blue Crab Larvae on the Mid-Atlantic Bight Adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay, 1982-1983, Lyle Michael Varnell
Dissertation: An Adaptive Remeshing Finite Element Method for High-Speed Compressible Flows Using Quadrilateral and Triangular Elements, Gururaja R. Vemaganti
Thesis: Essays for Undergraduate Liberal Arts Education, Hugo G. Walter
Dissertation: Best Approximation With Geometric Constraints, Yuesheng Xu
Dissertation: The Remipedia (Crustacea): A Study of Their Reproduction and Ecology, Jill Yager
Thesis: Microwell Based Competitive Enzyme Immunoassay for Quantifying Serum Triiodothyronine and Thyroxine Levels, Yiwen Yang
Thesis: Explicit and Implicit Calculations of Turbulent Cavity Flows With and Without Yaw Angle, Guan-Wei Yen
Thesis: Synthesis of an Efficient Band Mechanism for Robots and Prosthetic Devices, Run Chen Zhou
Dissertation: Causal Analysis of Disengagement Among Paid and Volunteer City Employees, Margaret Carson Zimmerman
Thesis: Motivation and Job Satisfaction of Direct Care Mental Health Practitioners in a Residential Treatment Center, Joann Zitt
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Dissertation: Investigation of Display Issues Relevant to the Presentation of Aircraft Fault Information, Donald Mark Allen
Dissertation: Effects of Ammonia, Salinity and Oxygen on the Growth and Energetics of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, Ahmad Mohammed Altayaran
Thesis: The Prediction of Drug Experimentation Among University Students Using Objective Personality Inventories, Gay Lynne Andrucci
Thesis: The Effects of Irrelevant Dimensions on the Predictive Value of a Warning Signal, Ruth Justine Arnegard
Dissertation: Molecular Study of the B19 (Human) Pathogenic Parvovirus, Jamshed Ayub
Dissertation: Factors Affecting Policy in Educational Media Services, Diane S. Barker
Thesis: A Review of the Pacific Members of the Gobiid Fish Genus Bollmannia Jordan, Robin L. Bedenbaugh
Thesis: Survey of Attitudes of Licensed Dental Hygienists Toward Continuing Education in a State with Mandatory Continuing Education Versus a State without Mandatory Continuing Education, Katharine Reeves Behroozi
Thesis: The Effects of Low Doses (1 to 500 Kilograys) of 100-KEV Electrons on Four Polymers, Cynthia Anne Bradbury
Thesis: The Merchant Class of London During the Hundred Years War, Rowena Breen
Dissertation: The Influence of Brain Hemisphericity on the Composing Process of Twelfth Graders, Reinholdine Breien-Pierson
Thesis: The Effect of Elastic Boundary Conditions on the Dynamic Response of Rectangular Plates, Terry K. Brewer
Thesis: An Evaluation of Injury Incidence and Typology in Industry, Shirlee Ann Brooks
Thesis: Low Pressure Gas Flow Analysis Through an Effusive Inlet Using Mass Spectrometry, David Robert Brown
Dissertation: Holocene Geology and Migration of a Low-Profile Barrier Island System, Metompkin Island, Virginia, Mark R. Byrnes
Thesis: Calculations of Three-Dimensional Transonic Flows Using the Implicit Formulation of the Isenthalpic Euler Equations with Flux Vector Splitting, Frank E. Cannizzaro
Thesis: A Structured Light Method for Sensing Alignment During Automated Truss Assembly, Jayesh K. Champaneri
Thesis: Self Consistent Model of the Glow Discharge, Hao Chen
Thesis: A Simulation Study of a Space-Borne Optical Disk Mass Memory System, Kenny G. Chen
Thesis: Effect of Fabric on Stress-Strain Relation, Volume Change, and Dynamic Shear Modulus of Ottawa Sand, Ming-Tarng Chen