ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: The Thermal and Photolytic Rearrangements of Isatoic Acid Diazide, Ana Alejandre Ciereszko
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Dahn E. Crandall
Thesis: An Investigation of Littoral Transport Between Virginia Beach and Sandbridge, Virginia, Richard C. Cunningham Jr.
Thesis: A Taxonomic Study of Members of the Family Entrobacteriaceae with Gas Chromatography, Madeline Ducate
Thesis: Comparison of Interferon Produced in Vitro by Monkey Kidney Cells Demonstrating Interference Against Polio II, Coxsackie A-9, Influenza A2/Hong Kong/68, and Echo-9 Viruses, Archer Duncan Farmer Jr.
Thesis: The Effect of Pre-Exposure to Sucrose on the Acquisition and Extinction of a Conditioned Aversion, Shirlee Fenwick
Thesis: Dynamics of Explosion Remnants in Earth-Orbits, Joseph T. Fuss
Thesis: The Ecology of the Dominant Tick Species in the Northwestern Portion of the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Mary Keith Garrett
Thesis: Temperature Dependent Behavior in Goldfish: (Carassius Auratus): Some Implications for Memory Processes, Jean M. Hamberg
Thesis: American Policy and the Netherlands East Indies, 1940-1945, Buford A. Harris
Thesis: Observations on the Distribution and Composition of Zooplankton in Portions of the Intracoastal Waterway, Virginia, O. Clair Hillard Jr.
Thesis: The Use of Color Infrared Aerial Photography in Determining Salt Marsh Vegetation and Delimiting Man-Made Structures of Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Robert E. Holman lll
Thesis: Studies on the Causes of Tree Distribution in a Forest Type in the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Thomas A. Janszen
Thesis: A Comparison of Selected Isokinetic Training Velocities on the Development of Muscular Power in College Women, Julia P. Knight
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Craney Island Disposal Area in Hampton Roads, Virginia, David Wallace Laist
Thesis: The United States Naval Influence in South Russia, 1917-1922, Beverly A. Lowe
Thesis: Animal Imagery in the Comedies of Ben Jonson and William Congreve, Carl Raymond Ludwigson
Thesis: John Galsworthy and the Theme of Unhappy Marriage and Divorce: 1895-1911, June Moosbrugger
Thesis: The Design and Performance of a Fiber Optic Pressure Transducer, Raymond Henry Pahler Jr.
Dissertation: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Flow Phenomena Within a Vortex Sink Rate Sensor, Dashrath Khodidas Patel
Thesis: The Effect of Various Doses of Caffeine Upon the Maximal Muscular Endurance of College Females, Roberta Jane Perkins
Thesis: The League of Nations and the Jews of Europe: 1919-1939, Jay M. Pilzer
Thesis: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Different Teaching Methods Upon the Learning of Beginning Badminton Skills, Helen H. Tedder
Thesis: A Finite Element Analysis of Unsymmetrically Laminated Rectangular Plates, Stanley F. C. Tseng
Thesis: General Douglas Macarthur and the Philippine Army, James Allen Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: A Study of the Causes of the Negro Migration of 1922-1923 from Rural Georgia to Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Coastal Waters, Elizabeth W. Atkinson
Thesis: The Concept and Theory of Value-Added Taxation, Stacy R. Barnes
Thesis: A Seasonal Distributional Survey of the Epiphytic Diatoms of the Outer Banks Region of North Carolina with Respect to Temperature and Salinity, Charles Welles Belin Jr.
Thesis: The Concept of Authority in James Otis and Thomas Paine, Mark Allan Brown
Thesis: The Changing Positions of Patrick Henry, Jeanne Buyrn
Thesis: The Social Status of Special Class EMR Adolescents Assigned Part-Time to Public School Regular Classes, Margaret E. Carter
Thesis: The Expression of Despair in Three Hardy Novels, Brenda J. Casey
Thesis: Poe's Humor in Theory and Practice, Celinda V. Claxton
Thesis: A Comparative Limnological Survey of Brackish-Water Lake and a Fresh-Water Lake at Mount Trashmore, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Gene Ramon Cocke
Thesis: John M. Daniel Editor of the Richmond Examiner and Gadfly of the Confederacy, Raymond K. Cooley
Thesis: Cytogenic Studies of a Chesapeake Bay Population of Molgula Manhattensis (Dekay) (Ascidiacea: Stolidobranchia), Elizabeth A. Crawford
Thesis: Seismic Refraction Study of Post-Pliocene Stratigraphy, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Brian Fraser
Thesis: Father Coughlin: The Progenitor of Social Reform in the Catholic Church, Robert J. Galvin
Thesis: The Effect of Project READ on the Reading Achievement Scores of First Graders in Selected Schools, Kim Richardson Gates
Thesis: Numerical Study of the Turbulent Boundary Layer in a Hypersonic Nozzle, Joan Patricia Gosink
Thesis: An Investigation of a Free Jet at Low Reynolds Numbers, George C. Greene
Thesis: Investigation of the Halocline Structure in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Samuel Bowen Heltzel
Thesis: A Zooplankton Study of Stumpy Lake, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Jose E. Hernandez
Thesis: Governmental Elites in Three Virginia Counties: A Reappraisal of the Turner Thesis, Harry Stuart Holman
Thesis: American Diplomacy Toward China, 1945-1948, Margo E. Horner
Thesis: Edinburgh, 1540-1571: Life in an Urban Society, Susan Walker Johnson
Thesis: Complexes of the 2,2'-Bisacylhydrazide of 3,3'-Bipyridine and the Dipicolinic Acid Dihydrazide Ligand Systems, William Leo Johnson III
Thesis: Intervention Effects of a Crisis-Resource Program in a Public School, Marcella A. Kerlin
Thesis: A Study of Nonstandard English in Reading in the Junior High Schools of Portsmouth, Virginia, Gail Biery Kettlewell
Thesis: Food and Feeding of Fishes from Magothy Bay, Virginia, Joseph J. Kimmel
Thesis: Faulkner's Concept of Innocence: A Study of Horace Benbow, Thomas Sutpen, and the Convict in The Wild Palms, Sandra Sayre Moll
Thesis: The Virginia Resolutions of 1826: States Rights Versus Federal Internal Improvements, Robert J. Morrison
Thesis: The Economic Aspects of Water Pollution by Naval Vessels in the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, John Edward O'Connor
Thesis: A Simulation Model of Peromyscus Leucopus in an Area of the Great Dismal Swamp, James E. Paschal Jr.
Thesis: Phytoplankton Succession in the Lafayette River, Estuary, Norfolk, Virginia, Thomas W. Purcell lll
Thesis: Community Structure and Production in a Marsh on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Michael Bassett Robblee
Thesis: Evolution of Platt Shoals Northern North Carolina Shelf: Inferences from Areal Geology, Philip C. Sears
Thesis: Visual Imagery in the Shorter Fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Archie Leland Simmons
Thesis: Bourgeois Pacifism in Germany Before and During World War I, Andrew Verner
Thesis: Computer-Aided Design of Light Aircraft to Meet Certain Aerodynamic and Structural Requirements, Joanne Lynn Walsh
Thesis: Particle Size Distribution and Small-Scale Bed-Forms on Sand Waves, Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Virginia, John T. Wells
Thesis: Phycosociology of the Estuarine Eulittoral of Smith Island Virginia: A Quantitative Approach to Seasonal Periodicity, William M. Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: The Effects of the Cyclic 3'5'-Monophosphate of Adenosine and Its Dibutyryl Derivative on the In-Vitro Immunization of Mouse Spleen Cell Suspensions, James A. Blanks
Thesis: A Numerical Technique for Solving Rigid Body Impact on an Incompressible, Viscous Medium, Cecil Thomas Chapman
Thesis: An Investigation of the Feasibility of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) in the Elementary School, Jane Chavis
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