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 2021
Dissertation: Making It to the Next Grade: How Elementary School Principals Make Sense of Grade Retention Policies for English Learners, Lynmara Colón
Dissertation: Institutional Context Drives Mobility: A Comprehensive Analysis of How Academic and Economic Factors Relate to International Student Enrollment at United States Higher Education Institutions, Natalie Irby Cruz
Dissertation: Improved Strain Gage Instrumentation Strategies for Rotorcraft Blade Measurements, Timothy S. Davis
Dissertation: Finite Difference Schemes for Integral Equations with Minimal Regularity Requirements, Wesley Cameron Davis
Dissertation: Protection and Disturbance Mitigation of Next Generation Shipboard Power Systems, Marounfa Djibo
Dissertation: Application of Optimization Techniques in Corporate Cash Management, Venkateswara Reddy Dondeti
Dissertation: On the p-Inner Functions of ℓpA, James G. Dragas
Thesis: Riverology: Promoting Stewardship of Rivers Through Youth Participation in Science and Art, Robin R. Dunbar
Thesis: An Analysis of Effective Practice Strategies for the Performing Undergraduate University-Level Pianist, Elizabeth Ann Duncan
Dissertation: School Finance Equity: An Intradistrict Equity Audit, Nicole Kathryn Duplain
Dissertation: Moderate Heat-Assisted Gene Electrotransfer for Intradermal DNA Vaccination and Protein Replacement Therapy in the Skin, Chelsea Marie Edelblute
Dissertation: Psychological Factors and Gastrointestinal Symptoms During Running, Alex Michael Ehlert
Dissertation: Phytoplankton Community Response to Upwelling Events: Distribution and Abundance Investigated Using Genomic Methods, Sveinn V. Einarsson
Thesis: Predictions of Knee Joint Contact Forces Using Only Kinematic Inputs with a Recurrent Neural Network, Kaileigh Elisabeth Estler
Dissertation: How Interactions with Staff Relate to Students' Early-Career Success at Small Residential Colleges, Donna L. Fenton
Dissertation: Perceptions of Secondary Administrators: Looking at Their Experiences and Practices Supporting Science Instruction, Venicia Ferrell
Dissertation: A Narrative Inquiry of Long-Term Learning Outcomes of Community College Education Abroad, Heidi Fischer
Dissertation: MOVE: Mobile Observers Variants and Extensions, Ryan Florin
Dissertation: Two Essays on Corruption, FDI, and Digitalization, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani
Dissertation: Patient-Perspective Task Performance: Creating Contextually Relevant Student Clinical Training Through the Use of Patient Experience, Candice L. Freeman
Thesis: Maladies & Remedies, Timothy Michael Fulghum
Dissertation: Site Supervisors' Perspectives on Supervision of Counselor Trainees in Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Settings: A Q Methodology Approach, Yeşim Giresunlu
Thesis: A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach to e-VTOL Aircraft and Airspace Infrastructure Design for Urban Air Mobility, Heidi Selina Glaudel
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation into the Impact of Acute Stress on Alcohol Craving through Implicit Coping Motives, Douglas J. Glenn
Dissertation: Identification of Opportunity Barriers and Supports for Individuals Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Stakeholders, Meredith K. Gohsman
Thesis: The Effects of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress on College Students: Examining the Role of Mental Health Self-Efficacy on Willingness to Engage in Mental Health Services, Leeanna L. Golembiewski
Thesis: Wrath and Relationships: Homicide Weapon Choice and Victim Offender Relationships, Joseph Gonnella
Thesis: Mobilizing Discomfort for Water Security as a Human Right: A Newspaper Analysis of Social Conflict in South Africa, Madison Gonzalez
Dissertation: Building Bridges in First-Year Composition: Investigating the Support of Threshold Concepts in Writing-Related Transfer Across the Curriculum, Elise Antoinette Green
Dissertation: Wiener-Fliess Composition of Formal Power Series: Additive Static Feedback and Shuffle Rational Series, Subbarao Venkatesh Guggilam
Dissertation: Exploring the Incongruence Between Traditional Neo-Managerial Norms, the Science of Learning, and the Goals of Social Justice: A Phenomenological Study of Educators Lived Experiences Inside This Paradox, Donica Ouckama Hadley
Dissertation: Population Dynamics and Dispersal Coalitions in the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker, Natasha Hagemeyer
Thesis: The Impact of Muscular Strength on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Joel Ernest Harden
Dissertation: A Grounded Theory Qualitative Study of Assistant Principals as Instructional Leaders in the High School Setting, Mary F. Hardesty
Dissertation: Institutionalized Perceptions of Student Behavior and the Student Conduct Paradigm Shift in Virginia’s Public Schools, Tiffany D. Hardy
Dissertation: A Testing and Experimenting Environment for Microscopic Traffic Simulation Utilizing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, Mahmud Hasan
Dissertation: Reinterpreted Europe: An Assessment of EU (In) Ability to Deal with Threats to the Rule of Law, Huso Hasanovic
Thesis: A Leader, a Follower, and Some Humor Walk into a Meta-Analysis: A Review of Positive and Negative Leader Humor, Richard Hayes
Thesis: CODAR's Surface Flow at the Mouth of the Chesapeake Bay: Relation to Bay's and Atlantic's Forcing, Shelby Kathryn Henderson
Dissertation: Connectivism: Adopting Quantum Holism in International Relations, Grant Randal Highland
Dissertation: Students with Orthopedic Impairments' Perspectives Toward Integrated Physical Education, Katherine E. Holland
Dissertation: Physical Education and Extracurricular Activity Participation of Autistic, Neurodivergent, Disabled Trans Adults, Steven Kelly Holland
Dissertation: The Impact of a Crisis Intervention Team Program on Psychiatric Boarding, Kurtis Hooks
Dissertation: Investigating the Role of Denial in Interpersonal Formulations of Binge Eating Among Black and White College Women: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Lindsay Marie Howard
Dissertation: Development and Applications of Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Multidisciplinary Optimization for Rotorcraft, Ramiz Omur Icke
Dissertation: Deep Learning Approaches for Seagrass Detection in Multispectral Imagery, Kazi Aminul Islam
Dissertation: Experiences of Low-Income Student-Parents at a Community College During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic, Marlena Yvonne Jarboe
Dissertation: A Comparison of Impostor Phenomenon in Community College and Public University Students, Shanda Jenkins
Dissertation: Quasiclassical Computations of Compton-Scattered Spectra, Erik Scott Johnson
Dissertation: Examining the Use of Immersive Clinical Experiences in Athletic Training Education, Bailey Christine Jones
Thesis: Estimating the Risk of Future Plastic Marine Debris Resulting from the Urban Coastal Built Environment, Kelly C. Jones
Dissertation: Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives, Shawn M. Jones
Thesis: Intention-Behavior Discrepancies for Alcohol Consumption Among College Students, Emily Kaye Junkin
Thesis: The Effects of Sitting and Standing Hygiene on Posture in Dental Hygiene Students, Taylor Shay Kace
Thesis: Interpreting Summer in the Parks in the National Capital Area of the National Park Service, Brendan J. Kane
Dissertation: Lean Application: An Assessment of 5S on Employee Attitudes and Productivity, Nickolaos Dimitrios Karvounis
Thesis: Emotion Regulation Variability and Relationship Functioning in Emerging Adulthood, Laura B. Kenneally
Dissertation: Predicting Inattentional Blindness with Pupillary Response in a Simulated Flight Task, Kellie D. Kennedy
Thesis: A Test of Rad Capture Sequencing on Ethanol-Preserved Centennial and Contemporary Specimens of Philippine Fishes, Madeleine I. Kenton
Thesis: Quantifying Cyber Risk by Integrating Attack Graph and Impact Graph, Omer F. Keskin
Dissertation: Anaplasma Phagocytophilum Modulates Mammalian and Arthropod Signaling for Its Survival and Transmission, Supreet Khanal
Dissertation: Integrated Processing of Municipal Solid Waste for Maximizing Waste Reduction, Carbon Recovery and Fuel Production, Kameron J. King
Dissertation: Closing the Contextual and Chronological Gap: A Design and Development Study of a Systematic Tool for the Selection of Learning and Performance Support Interventions, James Knapp III
Dissertation: Integrative Computational Analysis of Muscle Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Signals: Effects of Oxygen Delivery and Blood Volume, Bhabuk Koirala
Dissertation: Culturally Responsive School Leaders: Actions, Barriers and the Impact of Critical Self-Reflection, Dawn Louise Kramer
Dissertation: Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Using Graph Theoretical Anomaly Detection and Machine Learning, Goksel Kucukkaya
Dissertation: Abandoned Allies: A Case Study Analysis of the Special Immigrant Visa Program, Sarah Pedigo Kulzer
Dissertation: Understanding the Effect of Internal Climate Variability on 20th Century Indian Ocean Sea Level: Results from Newly Reconstructed Sea Level Data, Praveen Kumar
Dissertation: Relationship Between Technology Student Association Participation and Soft Skills Development, Controlling for Gender, Lauren M. Lapinski
Dissertation: State Antifragility: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Understanding State Behavior, Rebecca Lee Law
Dissertation: Creating Conditions for Collaboration: A Case Study on Design-Based Professional Learning, Leslie A. Lehner
Thesis: Inter Alia, Richard Leise
Dissertation: A Copula Model Approach to Identify the Differential Gene Expression, Prasansha Liyanaarachchi
Thesis: Effect of a 2-Week Relaxing Music Intervention on Anxiety, Stress, and Gut Symptoms in Aerobic Exercisers, Halie Marisa Maass
Dissertation: Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Among College Women’s Social Networks: An Investigation of Perceived Changes Following a Dissonance-Based Body Image Intervention, Rachel I. MacIntyre
Thesis: A New Method for Estimating the Physical Characteristics of Martian Dust Devils, Shelly Cahoon Mann
Dissertation: Data-Driven Operational and Safety Analysis of Emerging Shared Electric Scooter Systems, Qingyu Ma
Dissertation: A Case Study on the Application and Implementation of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports for Students with Emotional Disabilities in Alternative Education, Kira Candelieri Marcari
Dissertation: Computational Analysis of Type 3 Iodothyronine Deiodinase: Potential Inhibitors, Substrate Binding, and Dimer Structure, Eric Scott Marsan
Thesis: Authentication Schemes' Impact on Working Memory, Janine D. Mator
Thesis: Communicating with Muted Groups: The Case of Human Trafficking, Amy Matzke-Fawcett
Dissertation: The Pursuit of Equitable Virtual Learning: District Leaders’ Understanding of the Influences on Designing 100% Virtual Learning Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Kathleen Wolfe Maxlow
Thesis: Bastard, Rashad McDowell
Thesis: Institutional Stretching: How Moroccan NGOs Illuminate the Nexus of Climate, Migration, Gender and Development, Shelby Mertens
Thesis: The Influence of Emotion Regulation and Neural Cognitive Control on Distress Tolerance, Alicia L. Milam
Dissertation: Exploring QCD Factorization at Moderate Energy Scales, Eric Alan Moffat
Dissertation: The Role of Community College Faculty in Encouraging Student Enrollment Following Dual Enrollment Participation, Kathryn Page Moore
Dissertation: Initial Development of the Escala de Fortaleza en Jóvenes para Padres, David Moran
Dissertation: The Development of Novel Carbohydrate-Based Gelators and Their Applications as Advanced Soft Materials, Joedian Morris
Dissertation: The Second-Order Impact of Relative Power on Outcomes of Crisis Bargaining: A Theory of Expected Disutility and Resolve, Tatevik Movsisyan
Dissertation: The Impact of Nanopulse Treatment on the Tumor Microenvironment in Breast Cancer: Overturning the Treg Immunosuppressive Dominance, Anthony Nanajian
Thesis: The Poverty in USA: An In-Depth Analysis of the Last Two Decades, Sara Negri
Dissertation: J/ψ Photoproduction Near Threshold With CLAS12, Joseph Newton
Dissertation: Genetically Engineered Thermosynechococcus Elongatus BP1: Assessment of Potential Biorisks and Biofuel Production, Thu Ho Anh Nguyen-Jones
Thesis: Storied, Healing, Lili Louzhi Nizankiewicz
Dissertation: Subtalar Joint Definition in Biomechanical Models, Julia Noginova
Thesis: Don't Destroy Yourself, Timothy Norton
Thesis: Never Pull an Arrow Out of a Body, Matthew Gerald Olive
Dissertation: Electrostatic Design and Characterization of a 200 keV Photogun and Wien Spin Rotator, Gabriel G. Palacios Serrano
Thesis: Language and Cultural Identity in Post-Soviet Frozen Conflicts, Irina Paquette