ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Dissertation: Creating More Equitable Opportunities in Early Childhood by Highlighting Parent Voice: A Qualitative Case Study, Julie Dawn Sill
Dissertation: Factors Predicting Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers' Levels of Self-Efficacy in STEM Education, Charlene Wirfel Smith
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Investigation of School Counselor Antiracist Social Justice Practices, Stephanie Deonca Smith-Durkin
Dissertation: Adaptive Risk Network Dependency Analysis of Complex Hierarchical Systems, Katherine L. Smith
Dissertation: Present at the Creation, a Redux: The Need for Strategic Minded Joint Force Officers in a Rapidly Changing and Dynamic International Security Environment, Thomas Joseph Snukis
Dissertation: A Nexus of Literate Activity: The Design of Writing Assignments in the Disciplines, Lauriellen Stankavich
Dissertation: Examining the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy of Teacher Candidates in Urban Immersive Residency Programs, Latanya M. Sutphin
Dissertation: What We Learn From Each Other: Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Non-Helping Professionals Following Exposure to Peer Trauma Experiences, Tiphanie Gayle Sutton
Dissertation: "Quality-Less” Higher Education: Relationship and Neocolonialism in International Development in Afghanistan, Wolayat Tabasum
Dissertation: Guilty as Not (Re)Charged: Calling, Work-Recovery Guilt, and Their Effects on Recovery Experiences, Jeffrey Drake Terry
Dissertation: A Quality Systems Economic-Risk Design Theoretical Framework, Abdallah S. Thefeid
Thesis: Hieronymus Bosch's Dismantled Triptych and the 'Devotio Moderna', Mary E. Tippett
Dissertation: Predictors of Email Response: Determinants of the Intention of not Following Security Recommendations, Miguel Angel Toro-Jarrin
Dissertation: The Associations of Cardiovascular Disease, Physical Activity Intensities, and Measures of Obesity on Static Balance in Middle-Aged and Older Adults, Hannah Martha Twiddy
Thesis: TransParsCit: A Transformer-Based Citation Parser Trained on Large-Scale Synthesized Data, MD Sami Uddin
Dissertation: Career Literacy: Developing, Validating, and Establishing the Reliability of the Career Literacy Continuum Scale, Kesha S. Valentine
Thesis: You Are The Right One, James Joseph Valliere
Thesis: Navy Blues: Between Waves and Warriors, Reinetta A. Vaneendenburg
Dissertation: Finding Core Members of a Hedonic Game, Daniele M. Vernon-Bido
Thesis: Disaster Victim Identification Competencies: A Comparison of Dental Hygiene and Dental Assistant Students, Samantha Clara Vest
Thesis: Flying In Mind, Paula Jean Walashek
Dissertation: Complex System Governance Leadership, David C. Walters
Dissertation: Collaborative Robotics Strategies for Handling Non-Repetitive Micro-Drilling Tasks Characterized by Low Structural Mechanical Impedance, Xiangyu Wang
Thesis: An Analysis of In-Service Choral Music Educators’ Methods of Classroom Management, Brooke Ann Ward
Thesis: Bad Actors, Wendell Ward
Thesis: Negative Appraisals and Experiences of Thriving and Burnout at Work and School During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Embeddedness, Kate Noel Warnock
Dissertation: Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Clinical Reasoning at the Patient Bedside, Rebecca Gale White
Dissertation: Conceptual Advancement of Youth Apprenticeship Programs Using a Policy Delphi, Susan L. Wienand
Thesis: Accommodations, Inclusion, and Communication With Students With Disabilities in the Music Classroom, Cora M. Wilson
Thesis: Greenbox to Barbershops, Willie Wilson
Dissertation: Counselor Perceived Competence Diagnosing Disorders from DSM-5 Diagnostic Categories Survey Results and the Development and Validation of Scores on the Diagnostic Self-Efficacy Scale, Erin Elizabeth Woods
Dissertation: The Experiences of School Counselors Providing Virtual Services During Covid-19: A Phenomenological Investigation, Allison Kathryn Worth
Dissertation: Towards Privacy and Security Concerns of Adversarial Examples in Deep Hashing Image Retrieval, Yanru Xiao
Dissertation: Ion Production and Mitigation in DC High-Voltage Photo-Guns, Joshua T. Yoskowitz
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Other Customer Brand Tie and Employee Behavior on Consumer Behavior, Saeed Zal
Dissertation: Engineering of Ideal Systems for the Study and Direction of Stem Cell Asymmetrical Division and Fate Determination, Martina Zamponi
Dissertation: Three Essays on CEO Traits, Corporate Investment Decisions, and Firm Value, Rongyao Zhang
Dissertation: A Comparison of Sorority Women and Non-Sorority Women’s Alcohol Use: Perception, Rate of Use, and Consequences, Betsy Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: Examining Melt Pond Dynamics and Light Availability in the Arctic Ocean via High Resolution Satellite Imagery, Austin Wesley Abbott
Dissertation: Effectiveness of College Counseling Interventions in International Student Adjustment to United States Higher Education Systems: A Meta-Analysis, Joshua Ebby Abraham
Dissertation: Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Carbohydrate Based Macrocycles, Photo Responsive Derivatives, and Glycoconjugates Based Low Molecular Weight Gelators, Surya Bahadur Adhikari
Dissertation: The Use of Counter Narratives as a Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Communications-Based Measure: A Study of Muslim-American Undergraduate Students in Universities and Colleges in California, Mohamed Ahmed
Thesis: When They Came for Us, Samia Ahmed
Dissertation: Tunable Compressive Mechanical Behavior of Ice-Templated Materials, Sashanka Akurati
Dissertation: Check-in/Check-out to Increase Academic Engagement and Classroom Behavior Among Adolescent Students in Juvenile Detention Centers, Rakan M. Alshammari
Thesis: The Role of Backreef Soundscapes and their Spatial Structure for Recruitment of Tropical Marine Larvae, Emily R. Anderson
Dissertation: Electrohydrodynamic Simulations of Capsule Deformation Using a Dual Time-Stepping Lattice Boltzmann Scheme, Charles Leland Armstrong
Dissertation: “I’m Just a Middleman": A Phenomenological Study of Specialized Literacy Professionals' Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Michelle L. Arnold
Dissertation: Two Essays on Antecedents and Effects of Board Female Representation Non-Conformity, Fatemeh Askarzadeh
Dissertation: What Are We Missing?: A Comparison of Experiences of Race-Based Trauma by Black Americans and Black Jamaicans, Bianca R. Augustine
Dissertation: Enhancing Thermal Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells with a Polymer Through Grain Boundary Passivation, Tanzila Tasnim Ava
Thesis: Analysis of a Non-Equilibrium Vortex Pair as Aircraft Trailing Vortices, Manuel Ayala
Dissertation: The Spooky Vein: The Reparative Gothic-Modern in the Works of Richard A.W. Hughes, Corwin R. Baden
Thesis: Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Coping Strategies Among College Faculty, Jordan M. Ball
Thesis: Manifesting Devi, Roudri Bandyopadhyay
Dissertation: Computational and Experimental Investigation into the Determinants of Protein Structure, Folding, and Stability in the β-Grasp Superfamily, John T. Bedford II
Dissertation: COVID-19, Technology, and the Math Classroom: Changes, Obstacles, and Victories Integrating Digitally, Lauren Fifield Bellamy
Thesis: Indian Media Narratives in Gang Rape, Astha Bhandari
Thesis: Modeling Interactions in Concentrated Ceramic Suspensions Under AC Electric Field, Naga Bharath Gundrati
Dissertation: Specification, Control, and Applications of Z-Source Circuit Breakers for the Protection of DC Power Networks, Sagar Bhatta
Dissertation: Synthesis and Characterization of 4,6-protected Glucosamine Derivatives and Branched Glycoconjugates, Jonathan Bietsch
Dissertation: Promise, Potential, Opportunity: Successful HBCU Presidential Fundraising Strategies, Felicia D. Blow
Dissertation: Is It Better to Be Tough, or Is Consistency Key? A Multilevel Analysis Examining the Effects of School Disciplinary Procedures on Perceptions of Climate and Safety Among Students and Teachers, Erica Nicole Bower
Thesis: On Being Seen or For Those Who Break Like Me, Shanisha K. Branch
Dissertation: The Puente Project: Bridging the Achievement Gap for Latinx Students, Nelly Fabiola Brashear
Thesis: Rescripting Father-Daughter Dynamics: New Masculinities and Relational Possibilities in Post-Apocalyptic Video Games, Sarah Mortazavi Brooks
Thesis: Integrating Empathy Pedagogy with Feminist Thought and Social Justice Praxis, Ashlyn Elizabeth Brown
Dissertation: Undergraduate Classroom Incivility from the Faculty Perspective, Erin M. Bunton
Thesis: Stability of Low Crested and Submerged Breakwaters: A Reanalysis and Model Development, Christopher P. Burgess
Dissertation: Towards an Integrated Assessment of Sea-Level Observations Along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, Brett A. Buzzanga
Dissertation: Faculty Member Experiences When Identifying and Addressing Prohibited Speech in the Classroom, Scott Jeffrey Bye
Dissertation: Courageous Endurance: The Lived Experiences of Trans Folx and the Criminal Legal System, April Carrillo
Dissertation: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ion Transport Through Electrically Stressed Biological Membranes, Federica Castellani
Thesis: Use of an Innovative Simulated-Virtual Training to Improve Dental Hygiene Students’ Self-Reported Knowledge, Attitudes, and Confidence in Providing Care to Child Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Kimberly Frances Cenzon
Thesis: A New Heuristic Algorithm for Accuracy and Computational Efficiency for Solving Minimum Cost Flow Problems, Timothy Michael Chávez
Dissertation: Narratives from Appalachia: The Current Stories of LGBTQ Community College Students, Todd A. Cimino-Johnson
Dissertation: Biophysical Characterization of the Par-4 Tumor Suppressor: Evidence of Structure Outside the Coiled Coil Domain and Interactions with Platinum Chemotherapeutics, Andrea Megan Clark
Dissertation: The Assessment of Clinical Reasoning in Preceptors Across the Athletic Training Profession, Gary Wayne Cohen Jr.
Dissertation: Measuring Up: A Case Study of School Finance Equity Among Five Middle Schools, Christen A. Cohoon
Dissertation: Shipboard Lidar as a Tool for Remotely Measuring the Distribution and Bulk Characteristics of Marine Particles, Brian Leigh Collister
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