ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: Phytoplankton Distribution in Waters Off the Northeastern Coast of the United States, Sharon H. Craft
Thesis: Durability of Addison's Criticism of Milton, Vivian Marguerite Duke
Thesis: The Synthesis and Characterization of the 2,2'-Bisacylazide of 3,3'-Bipyridine, Magdy Adly Guirguis El-Fayoumy
Thesis: A Study of Precipitin and Soluble Antigen Fluorescent Antibody Technique in the Detection of Dirofilaria Immitis in Canines, John H. Ellsworth
Thesis: The Stage History of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Kathy Lynn Emerson
Thesis: Political Concepts in the Novels of Carson McCullers, Ronald Flowe
Thesis: Diurnal Studies at a Station on an Urban Estuary in Norfolk, Virginia, Burton Marc Golue
Thesis: An Interdisciplinary Semantic Analysis of Labels for "Emotional Disturbance", Mary Lou Green
Thesis: The Analysis of a Subsonic Jet Issuing Perpendicular to a Freestream Flow from a Flat Plate and a Body of Revolution, Donald R. Haberman
Thesis: An Assessment of the Validity of the Unemployment Variable as a Determinant of Changes in Money Wages in Wage-Estimation Models, James L. Jennings
Thesis: John Kirkwood Mitchell and Confederate Naval Defeat, Wayne Dixon Lett
Thesis: Morphologic Time Series From a Submarine Sand Ridge on the South Virginia Coast, John F. McHone Jr.
Thesis: Surface Water Turbidity in the Entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, James R. Melchor
Thesis: The Contributions of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to Adult Education, Betty Lou Mitchell
Thesis: Determination of Nutrient Levels and Proposed Predictive Models for Phosphate in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, John R. Montgomery
Thesis: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Incarnation of Love, Jenny Norman
Thesis: The Fur and Skin Trade of Colonial Virginia, Shirley-Virginia Parrish
Thesis: Motivation and the Poor Worker, Charles Barry Pfitzner
Thesis: Ben Butler and the Occupation of Norfolk, 1862-1865: A Reappraisal, Kenneth H. Schwartz
Thesis: The Urban Gestation: City Building in Wilmington, Delaware, Dennis Signorovitch
Thesis: Plant Succession in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Susan Woodward Walker
Thesis: The Influence of the Summer Thermocline on Estuarine Classification in the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, William G. Weiss Jr.
Thesis: A Physical Hydrographic Study of the Lafayette River, E. Glenn White
Thesis: Advanced Placement Guidelines for Schools of Practical Nursing for Placement of Nursing Assistants, Leona Casner Wyatt
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: A Comparison of Selected Language Skills of Urban and Rural Fourth-Grade White Boys of Lower Socioeconomic Status, Claudia H. Aaron
Thesis: The Creole Affair: Climax of the British-American Fugitive Slave Controversy, 1831-1842, Alice Lee Anderson
Thesis: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of an Unsteady Pressure Measuring System, Ramesh R. Batki
Thesis: Spectroscopic Measurement of the Electron Temperature in the Tenuous Argon Ion Laser Plasma, Dane Danijel Bicanic
Thesis: Negroes' Freedom of Contract in Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper III
Thesis: An Evaluation of a Stable Isotope of Dysprosium for Labeling and Tracing Sedimentary Particles, Charles Glenn Boone
Thesis: An Empirical Test of Linder's Trade Hypothesis, James Norman Carnes
Thesis: Multiple Correlation Between Eighth Grade Modern Mathematics Success and Selected Areas of Verbal Ability, Allen L. Davis
Thesis: The Effect of Perceptual Training in the Classroom as Related to Academic Achievement of Children with an IQ Range of Fifty to Eighty, Catherine Dennis
Thesis: Non-Standard English in Norfolk City Schools, Louise A. DeVere
Thesis: American Press Reaction to Intervention in Nicaragua, Raymond O. Eason
Thesis: Adjustment Problems in Children with Orthopedic Handicaps, Judith Jones Ewell
Thesis: Saint Joan as Tragedy in Terms of Tragic Rhythm and Ritual, Terry A. French
Thesis: An Analysis of Byron's Attempt to Reform the English Stage Through His Venetian Plays, Linda J. Fuller
Thesis: The Effects of Physical and Verbal Expressions of Positive Reinforcement on the Achievement of Selected Slow Learners in Normal Classrooms of the Norfolk, Virginia, City Schools, Susan W. Glasser
Thesis: The Later Years of the American Colonization Society (1850-1865), John Hamilton Haley
Thesis: A Graphic Analysis of Current Velocity Salinity Density and Temperature During Periods of EBB and Flood in the Entrance to Thimble Shoals Channel, Stanley Hecker
Thesis: Methodist Missions to the Plantation Slaves of the South Carolina Conference, Dale E. Henderson
Thesis: Observations on the Hydraulic Regime of the Ridge and Swale Topography of the Inner Virginia Shelf, Barry W. Holliday
Thesis: A Student Evaluation of the Student Personnel Services on an Urban Campus, Jean H. Hughes
Thesis: Reformers and Bosses in the Progressive Era: The Changing Face of Norfolk Politics, 1890-1920, James Sidney Kitterman Jr.
Thesis: Portsmouth, Virginia: The Growth and Burdens of Property Taxes 1952-1967, Nicholas C. Kyriakides
Thesis: Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study of the Female Characterizations of To Have and Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh
Thesis: Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study of the Female Characterizations of To Have and Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh
Thesis: Static and Dynamic Buckling of Shallow Arches, David D. Loendorf
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of the Vortex Sink Rate Sensors, Nelson L. Lu
Thesis: The Theme of Despair in the Short Poems of Thomas Hardy, Janet Yarbrough Meyer
Thesis: The Relationship Between Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, Fay F. Moran
Thesis: The Christian Socialist Movement in England, 1848-1854, Elizabeth Burton Morley
Thesis: An Application of Spectroscopic Techniques to the Measurement of Electron Density and Temperature in a Brush Cathode Plasma, Ramabhai M. Patel
Thesis: The Commercial Development of Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City, Wayne H. Payne
Thesis: Distance and the Search for Identity in Six Novels of Iris Murdoch, Anne B. Peterson
Thesis: The United States and the 1954 Guatemalan Revolution: Intervention or Prevention, Michael Plunkett
Thesis: Phytoplankton Composition at Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Howard Poore Jr.
Thesis: Menippean Satire in Sheridan's The Critic, George A. Renn III
Thesis: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Mathematics and Science Textbooks in the Tidewater Area, Jane Roberts Robertson
Thesis: The Influence of the South on United States China Policy, 1946-49, Arnest Clayton Thompson
Thesis: A Comparison of the Perceptual and Motor Abilities of Learning Disabled and Normal Students at Ages Eleven and Twelve, Rachel Adams Thompson
Thesis: Hawthorne's Obsessed Characters, Peggy Diane Wagner
Thesis: Analysis of Littoral Transport by Wave Energy: Cape Henry, Virginia to the Virginia, North Carolina Border, Zvi Henry Weinman
Thesis: Trap Manifested Behavior Trap Reflected Density Trap Reflected Distribution and Foods Consumed by Raccoons (Procyon Lotor L.) in Two Natural Areas of Virginia, Elton L. Winslow
Thesis: A Comparison of Tactile Reaction Time in Blind and Sighted Subjects, Lynne Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: The Responsibilities and Functions of School Counselors in Chesapeake Secondary Schools as Perceived by Counselors, Joyce Ann Anderson
Thesis: An Evaluation of Old Dominion University Counseling Services by Selected Graduates of the School of Education, Carol Jean Anthony
Thesis: The Neo-Classical Contributions to the Theory of International Trade, Mohammed Arifeen
Thesis: Britain and the Free Trade Area Negotiations of 1956-1958, George Y. Ballentine
Thesis: Defoe's Theory of Evil, Jeanette Martin Bass
Thesis: Policies and Procedures Employed by Personnel Administrators in the Recruitment Process of Public School Teachers in Virginia, Gabriele Sylvia Blankenship
Thesis: Erasure of Sediment Surface Features by Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), Walter Richard Boehmer
Thesis: A Survey of Selected Objectives, Opinions, and Attitudes of High School Seniors in Norfolk, Virginia, Robert Eugene Brown
Thesis: Student Evaluation of a Reading Improvement Course, Patricia K. Brumbly
Thesis: A Numerical Solution to the Problem of Rotation Near the Ground, David D. Chen
Thesis: A Follow-up Survey of the Graduates of the Cooperative Program of the Norfolk City Schools and the Leigh Memorial Hospital School of Licensed Practical Nursing, Joseph Patrick Clarke
Thesis: A Descriptive Survey of Elementary Teachers' Attitudes Toward Faculty Meetings, Charles Clay
Thesis: A Comparison of Fine Motor Skill Acquisition of Normal and Educable Mentally Retarded Age-Mates, Cheryl S. Curtiss
Thesis: An Investigation of a Gas Measurement Technique Employing Ultraviolet Excitation, Alphonso Vincent Diaz
Thesis: An Experimental Study of Lateral Soil Pressures and Moments on Flexible Sheet Piles, James H. Donahue
Thesis: A Descriptive Study of the Selection of General Goals of Life by Urban University Entering Freshmen, Walter Rupert Earl
Thesis: An Analysis of Professional Negotiation in the Public School Systems of Virginia, Ernest Michael Ellis
Thesis: A Study of Language Proficiency Skills of Elementary Pupils Achieving in Congruence with Capacity and Pupils Not Achieving in Congruence with Capacity, Edna Scott Faulk
Thesis: Excitation of Hydrogen Atoms by Fast Protons, Edward Ellis Fitchard
Thesis: Characteristics of Graduate Students in Counselor Education in Old Dominion University, Robert F. Graves Jr.
Thesis: The Use and Effectiveness of Computers for Administrative Purposes in the Tidewater Public Secondary Schools, William Carlisle Harrell
Thesis: The Role and Function of the Elementary School Guidance Counselor-Consultant as Perceived by a Selected Group of Elementary School Classroom Teachers, Betty Ann Swartz Harrison
Thesis: An Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Current Meter for Study of Water Particle Motion, George Milton Hecker
Thesis: Reading Interests and Habits of Physicians, Priscilla B. Holman
Thesis: An Economic Base Study of the Southeastern Virginia Planning District, Toby Lee Jarman
Thesis: Income Velocity in the United States, 1961-1968, William F. Kennedy
Thesis: A Survey of the Facilities in the Norfolk City Senior High Schools for the Gifted Student, Ernest Henderson Knox
Thesis: The Relationship of Final Grade Achievement in Seventh Grade English and Social Studies with a Reading Achievement Test, Judith Mitchell Knox
Thesis: Emily Dickinson's Poetics, Edith Lodge
Thesis: The Knit of Identity in Some Fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Vi Christensen Mullin
Thesis: The Intensification of American Confessional Poetry in the 'Sixties: Robert Lowell and Some Leading Questions, H. C. Nash
Thesis: Major Themes in the Works of Ernest Dowson, Alison Charles Phillips
Thesis: The Effects of Transformational Grammar Instruction Upon the Sentence Structure of Ninth Grade Students, Stanley Herbert Ross
Thesis: Grain Size Reconnaissance of the Virginia-North Carolina Inner Shelf Analysis by Settling Technique, Robert Bailey Sanford Jr.