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: 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 Ability of Young Children to Recognize Facial Photographs of Young Children, Young Adults, and Senior Citizens, Barbara Bell Bruff
Thesis: Effects of Sleep Loss on Information-Processing in an Absolute Judgment Task as a Function of Task Difficulty, Frieda O'Steen Carlton
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 Effect of Tone Frequency Spacing on Perception of Order in Repeating Tone Sequences, James Raymond Comstock Jr.
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: Polydipsia's Contribution to the Temporal Discrimination of Rats in the Development of Fixed Interval Behavior and as a Function of Fixed Interval Length, Linda Griffith Cruser
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
Thesis: The Retention and Maintenance of an Information Processing Skill, Jerry Willard Hedge
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: Effects of Practice on the Rate of Gain of Information in a Paper and Pencil Task, Dennis Howard Jones
Thesis: The Effects of an Alternative Training Program and Increased Rates Information on Halo Error and Accuracy, Robert J. Jones
Thesis: Short-Term Effect of Preventative Oral Health Services on Drug Rehabilitation Clients' Self Concept, Susan Elizabeth Jones
Thesis: Disidentification and Volitional Activation: New Approaches to the Treatment of Cigarette Smoking, Paul Donley Lidstrom
Thesis: The Effect of Blood Infusion Upon Perceived Exertion, Mary Aubert Lindhjem
Thesis: How Young Children Perceive Their Teachers: A Developmental Study, Mary Meta Lowe
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: Figural Identity Effects on the Perception of Apparent Movement Produced by a Bistable Multielement Motion Display, Don Michael McAnulty
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: 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: The Effects of Physical Attractiveness and Sex-Role Stereotyping on Peer Performance Evaluations, Claire Trimer Edwards
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: The Comparative Ecology of Two Populations of the Troglobitic Isopod Crustacean Lirceus Usdagalun (Asellidae), James Alexander Estes
Thesis: Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Participant Modeling: A Comparison with an Equally Credible Placebo, Bruce Dennis Etringer
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: The Effects of Stimulus Flooding Procedures with Acrophobia: A Test of Nonspecific Treatment Effects, Gil Krawitz
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: Menstrual Cycle and Training Effects on Physical Work Capacity, Sarah Jane Miller
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: An Investigation of Grading Procedures for Secondary School Physical Education Classes in Selected Virginia School Districts, Ellen V. Parker
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