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 1982
Thesis: Morphological Variation of the Foraminifer Elphidium excavatum (Terquem) on Crumps Bank and Willoughby Bank, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Pamela Kay Painter
Thesis: The 1969 Democratic Party Gubernatorial Primary: A Watershed in Virginia Political History, Patrick Anthony Parr
Thesis: The Effects of Modeling and Direct Instruction on Learning Disabled Children's Atypical Numerical Cognition, Mary Crossland Phelps
Thesis: Examination of the Self-Starvation Phenomenon, Elizabeth Woodard Pitts
Thesis: Myology and Osteology of Lupinoblennius Herre (Pisces: Blenniidae), William A. Roumillat
Thesis: A Structural Analysis of Phytoplankton in the Chesapeake Bay Plume and Adjacent Shelf Waters, Charles K. Rutledge
Thesis: Kazakh Nationalism in the Gorbachev Era, Steven O'Neal Sabol
Thesis: The Influence of Lamaze Classes and Delivery Room Presence on Paternal Attachment Behavior, Cherie Sammis-Gonzales
Thesis: The Historical Development of the Radical Anabaptist Movement, 1525-1535, Ronald Edward Sawyer
Thesis: Measuring Interpersonal Dependency in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients, Susan D. Schaffer
Thesis: The Effect of Syntactic Structure and Semantics of the Comprehension of Content Area Prose by Mainstreamed Learning Disabled Adolescents, Kathleen Charlotte Shelton
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of a Direct Expansion Solar-Assisted Heat Pump, James Yau-Jwo Shen
Thesis: Calculation of Potential Flow Past Non-Lifting Bodies at Angle of Attack Using Axial and Surface Singularity Methods, Jin-Yea Shu
Thesis: The William H. Sheppard African Art Collection at Hampton Institute, Richard A. Singletary
Thesis: Isomers of 5.8S Ribosomal RNA, David Smith
Thesis: Modeling Charge Diffusion from Proton-Induced Ionization Tracks in Silicon Photodiode Arrays, Lee Cole Smith
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Influencing Registered Nurse Retention and Turnover Below the Head Nurse Level in Acute Care Hospitals, Jean M. Snyder
Thesis: Feeding Behavior of Three Species of Spionid Polychaetes, Thomas Lane Stokes Jr.
Thesis: Effects of Aperiodic Noise on Serial Reaction: A Study of the Range and Consistency of Individual Differences with Repeated Measures, Stephen Victor Strunk
Dissertation: The Marine Geochemistry of Selenium, Kazufumi Takayanagi
Thesis: The Effects of Rater-Ratee Discrepancies and Interview Processes on Appraisal Effectiveness, Scott I. Tannenbaum
Thesis: Development of an On-line Computer System for Enzyme Kinetics Studies, Jacqueline R. Thweatt
Thesis: A Capacitance Wavestaff and Measurements of Wave Height Decay in the Surf Zone, David L. Timpy
Thesis: The Regioselective 3-Alkylation of Piperidine, Richard Dunn Todd
Thesis: A Pattern Analysis Algorithm for Wind Ambiguity Removal, Jaime R. Tormos
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric Deposition From Stations Surrounding Lower Chesapeake Bay, David Benjamin Webber
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on Growth and Survival of the Blue Tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner) (Pisces Cichlidae), Maylon Lowell White Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Kepone on the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa, Judith Marie Wilson
Thesis: The Effects of Task Experience, Goal Setting, and Knowledge of Results on Performance and Task-Goal Attributes, Edward Scott Wright
Thesis: Analysis of Organic N-Chloramines in Chlorinated Drinking Water, John Po Wen Yang
Thesis: Emancipation & Renewal: English Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century, Cheryl E. Yielding
Thesis: Analysis of Heavy Minerals in Arenaceous Lutites From the Northern Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, Kim Zauderer
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: Algal Dynamics in a Cypress Stand in the Seasonally Flooded Great Dismal Swamp, Joseph A. Atchue III
Dissertation: Effects of Multiple Scattering and Surface Albedo on the Photochemistry of the Troposphere, Tommy Reinhold Robert Augustsson
Thesis: A Quantitative Description of Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) with Applications in Fisheries Management, Anne Madolyn Babcock
Thesis: The Relationship of Cognitive Complexity-Simplicity to Occupational Role Perception, Raymond Boetcher
Thesis: The Relationship of Student Sex, Attractiveness, and Self-Esteem to Teacher Preference of Seventh Through Eleventh Grade Private School Students, Susan Montgomery Booker
Thesis: Chemistry of Organic N-Chloramines, Formation of Arenesulfonamides by Derivatization of Organic N-Chloramine with Sodium Arenesulfinate, Katherine F. Bowdring
Thesis: Characteristics of Sediment Transport in Overwash Surges, Paul Richardson Bowen
Thesis: Analysis of Aerothermodynamic Environment of a Titan Aerocapture Vehicle, Hsing Chow
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of a Rectangular Surface Thermal Plume, Li-Cheng Chu
Thesis: The Seasonality of Occurrence of Larval and Juvenile Sciaenids in a Virginia Seaside Estuary, James Howard Cowan Jr.
Thesis: A Technique for the Isolation and Identification of Aliphatic Amines in Water, Peter Alan Drew
Thesis: Mining the Deep Seabed Implications for International Law and American Foreign Policy, Steven H. Fitzgerald
Thesis: Incorporation of Carbon-14 Metabolites into the Sex Pheromon 26-Dichlorophenol of Dermacentor andersoni Stiles; and the Disruption of Pheromone Activity in D. andersoni and D. variabilis (SAY) by Quinones, Daniel Martin Gainsburg
Thesis: In Vitro Enzymatic Assay of RNA Methylation, Pamela Jean Eubanks Gallup
Dissertation: A Method of Modeling Multirate Two-Dimensional Recursive Digital Filters Author, Albert P. Gerheim
Dissertation: Sound Absorption in N2-H2O Gas Mixtures at Room Temperature and Low Frequency/Pressure Ratios, William Axam Griffin
Thesis: Photoelastic Investigation of Load Transfer in Eccentrically Loaded Single Lap Joints, Stephen Antrim Hann
Thesis: Fine Structure of the Nucleus and Cytoplasmic Feulgen-Positive Areas in the Developing Oocyte of Argus (Persicargas) radiatus, Bonnie J. Harding
Thesis: Growth and Recruitment of Two Penaeids in the Bay of St. Louis, Mississippi During 1979, Teresa C. Heaton
Thesis: The Effect of Kindergarten Entrance Age on School Success in Kindergarten and First Grade in Selected Portsmouth Private Schools, Mary Lindsey H. Hester
Thesis: The Effects of Copper on Skeletonema Costatum (Greville) Cleve, Susanne Sybille Jackman
Thesis: High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Biogenic Amines, Thais Edwina Ahrendt Keegan
Thesis: The Evolution of the Fleet Submarine in the United States Navy, Robert P. Kendall
Thesis: The African Foreign Policy of the German Democratic Republic, Heide R. Kersey
Thesis: A Direct Formulation and Computer-Implementation of a Symbolic Network Analysis Algorithm, Timothy James Knerr
Thesis: Low Speed Handling Characteristics of a Supersonic Transport by Eigenstructure Assignment, Michael Peter Lazar
Thesis: Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Anatid Herpesvirus, Margaret Anne Lewis
Thesis: Effects of the Dental Hygiene Curriculum on Student Creativity, Linda Kathryn Martin
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of the Biological Activity of Heterocyclic Analogs of Phencyclidine, Julian Dew McKenney Jr.
Thesis: Correlation Between Glutathione Peroxidase Activity and Selenium Concentrations in Both Plasma and Erythrocytes, Agatha Dudzai Munyanyi
Dissertation: Water Wave Refraction with Non-Linear Theory, Im Sang Oh
Thesis: "The Tide of the Unconscious" Jung, Bosch and the Archetypes of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Andrea R. Peck
Dissertation: Geomorphology and Dynamics of a Sand Wave in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo
Dissertation: Numerical Model Simulation of Offshore Flow During the Winter Season, Maria Cintia Piccolo
Thesis: Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim
Thesis: Relationship Between the Empathy Levels of Dental Hygiene Students and Their Teachers, Claudia Hudak Sanderlin
Thesis: Games and Gaming of the Stuart Aristocracy, Vicky Ann Sanderlin
Thesis: Synthesis of Dihydroisoquinolines and Tetrahydroisoquinolines, John J. Schlager
Thesis: Incidental and Intentional Recall of Item Names and Spatial Locations, Lois Ann Scovel
Thesis: The Banker's Briar Patch: The American Banker's Association and the Glass-Owen Bill of 1913, Robert Drake Scull
Thesis: Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Thermoelectric Solar Collector, Kay Eddie Shaheen
Thesis: Reciprocal Self-Disclosure in Mixed-Race and Same-Race Dyads, David Roger Sholis
Thesis: Jewish-Non-Military Resistance During the Holocaust, Debra J. Simmonds
Thesis: The Christian Republicanism of Timothy Dwight and Jedidiah Morse: The New American Israel and the French Antithesis, Kim Alan Snyder
Thesis: Petroleum-Utilizing Bacteria: The Biological Line Defense Against Oil Pollution, Steven W. Sokolowski
Dissertation: Usage and Limitations of Characteristic Vector Analysis of Remote Sensing Multispectral Data for the Identification and Quantification of Water Quality Parameters, Theodore A. Talay
Thesis: Breeding Birds of Two Atlantic White Cedar Stands in the Great Dismal Swamp, Karen Terwilliger
Thesis: The Effect of a Movement Education Program on Self Concept Among First Grade Children, RoseMarie Zumbo Tyree
Thesis: Lithium Chlorine-Induced Food Aversions in the Toad (Bufo americanus), Paul R. Vaughan
Thesis: Goertler Instability in Compressible Boundary Layers Along Curved Surfaces with Suction and Cooling, Alok K. Verma
Thesis: The Use of Microscopic Vegetative Characteristics and Leaf Characteristics and Leaf Deterioration Rates in the Formulation of Keys of Some Wetland Plants, Bruce Foy Williams
Thesis: Decay Rates and Nutrient Dynamics in Confines and Nonconfined Leaf Litter in the Great Dismal Swamp, R. Frederick K. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: Eigensystem Assignment Using Singular Value Decomposition, Ronald Dean Alley
Thesis: Natural Convection in Shallow Inclined Enclosures, Effendy Arif
Thesis: The Carter Administrative Elite: A Background Analysis, Susan Adomaitis Armstrong
Thesis: The Association of 5.8 S with 28S Ribosomal RNA, Nandita Banerjee
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions of Themselves and the Typical Dental Hygienist in Regard to Feminism, Christine M. Berg
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: A Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm for the Karhunen Loeve Transform, Salomi T. Charalambous
Thesis: Thermodynamic and System Performance Analysis of a Heat Pump That Employs a Two-Phase Flow Collector as Evaporator, Yu-Fang Chiang
Thesis: A Nonlinear Hybrid Vortex Method for Wings Having Side-Edge Separations, Li-Chuan Chu
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.