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 1979
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
Thesis: The History of Baseball at Old Dominion University, Anthony M. Zontini
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: A Study of the Zooplankton Composition at a Twenty-Four Hour Station in Waters North of Cuba, Judith Lee Hensley
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
Thesis: The Effects of the Couples Communication Program on Marital Communication and Perceived Satisfaction with the Relationship, Candace Barbara Waller
Thesis: The Influence of Item Wording on Scale Scores, Ratchaneewan Wanichtanom
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: The Acquisition of Dental Skills: Value of Exercise in Teaching Instrumentation, Deanne Shuman Allen
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: Effectiveness of the Phase Contrast Microscope in Dental Patient Motivation, Denise Marie Bowen
Thesis: Effects of Hypothesizing on Concept Learning, Barbara Blinn Bryant
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: Therapist Warmth as a Factor in Automated Relaxation Training, Kenneth Dittmar
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: Comparison of the Belgrad Skin Suit to a Conventional Race Suit in the Swimming Speed of Females, Mary Lucinda Fleet
Thesis: Learning Factors in the Development of Environmental Aversions, Jon S. Freda
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: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Sex Guilt, Kevin E. O'Grady
Thesis: The United States and the Anschluss; Reactions and Repercussions, Joseph Pociask
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: The Effects of Central and Peripheral Graphics on Personal Disclosure, Louis C. Saksen
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: Evaluation of Upwelling Infrared Radiance in a Nonhomogeneous Nonequilibrium Atmosphere, Sundaresa Venkata Subramanian
Thesis: The Role of Serotonin Depletion on the Behavioral Effects of Ethyl Alcohol, Linda J. Ward
Thesis: An Intensive Study of the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Donald Lynn Webster