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 2026
Dissertation: An Integrated Bayesian Network-Based Zero Trust Model to Quantify Cyber Risk in Small-Medium Businesses, Ahmed Abdelmagid
Dissertation: Optimization of Niobium Film for Particle Accelerators and Quantum Applications, Bektur Abdisatarov
Dissertation: Effects of Cross-Language Instructional Design on Foreign Language Learners' Cognitive Load: Approaching the Redundancy Principle of Multimedia Learning, Leonor Mendiola Adams
Dissertation: Electromyography, Prosthetic Properties, and Running Biomechanics in Recreationally Active Persons with Lower Extremity Amputation, Paige M. Agnew
Dissertation: Ultra-High Vacuum Outgassing Characterization of Thermally Processed Low-Carbon Steel for Advanced Particle Accelerator and Gravitational Wave Detector Applications, Aiman H. Al-Allaq
Dissertation: Paraeducators' Implementation Fidelity of Functional Communication Training Following an Intervention Package of Behavior Skills Training and eCoaching, Autumn M. Alexander
Dissertation: Bug-in-Ear eCoaching to Enhance Parents' Use of Embedded Learning Opportunities with Preschool-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Aeshah Alturki
Thesis: Quantifying Nutrient Fluxes Across the Sediment-Water Interface in the Lafayette River Estuary, Adriana E. Amrhein
Thesis: A Walk with the Wall, Chinecherem Arum
Thesis: Role of Listeria Adhesion Protein in Monocyte-Associated and Extracellular Translocation of Listeria monocytogenes Across the In Vitro Placental Barrier Co-culture Model, Ayesha Atique
Dissertation: Fabrication of Flexible Laser-Induced Graphene-Based Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensor for Diabetes Management, Reagan Aviha
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Analysis of Sense of Belonging Among Community College Educators, Muhammad Owais Aziz
Thesis: Cavitation-Aware Design of Hydrofoil Sections for Marine Propeller Blade Development, Samuel G. Bacon
Dissertation: Development of Methods for Partial and Full Melt Compaction of Thermoplastic Composites for Improved Consolidation and Performance, Jimesh D. Bhagatji
Dissertation: Bioengineering the Future of the Human Species: H+’s Ideological Iterations of Trans-/Posthumanity as Exemplified by Futurist Literary Texts = (Bio)Technological Solutions for (and/or) Reification of Systemic Inequities?, Marjorie E. Bomhower
Dissertation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Community College Presidential Job Announcements and the American Association of Community Colleges Competencies for Community College Leaders, Leslie M. Boon
Dissertation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Case Study on Principals’ Attitudes and Practices Toward the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities, Charlene Marie Briggs
Thesis: Enhancing NASA Sounding Rocket Capabilities Through Composite Material Adoption, Robert Burth
Dissertation: Identifying Professional Development Needs of Deans at California Community Colleges, Matilda D. Chavez
Dissertation: Does Short-Termism Pay? National Short-Termism, Investment, Innovation, and Equity Returns, Andrew H. Cohen
Dissertation: Validating the LGBT-DOCSS: Understanding Measurement of Transgender Clinical Competencies, Peighton Corley
Thesis: Cultural Memory and Colonial Legacies: The Pandemic Era in France, Kathryn (Kate) R. Cross
Dissertation: Policies, Pedagogies, and Pressures: A WPA's Design-based Approach to First-year Writing Program Development, Megan A. Crowley-Watson
Thesis: Observations of an Oscillatory Mechanochemical Reaction Between Tetrathiafulvalene and Chloranilic Acid, Alastair Deans
Dissertation: Radicals Transforming Organic Matter: Implications for Non-Pyrogenic Black Carbon and Nitrogen Formation, Molecular Dynamics in Tropical Soils, and Lignin Valorization, João Vitor dos Santos
Thesis: Hour of the Pearl, Taylor P. Ebersole
Dissertation: Education and Training in Water Operator Certification and its Role in Water Utility System Performance, Heath A. Edelman
Dissertation: The Physiology of the Work: Chronic Stress, Allostatic Load, and Faculty Wellness in Counselor Education, Ajayla S. Evins
Thesis: Early Parenting Stress and Later Abuse Risk: Dyadic Mediation by Maternal and Paternal Negative Attributions, Jewelian N. Fairchild
Dissertation: An Analysis of the United States Hegemony in Latin America Considering the Current Advancement of China in the Region, Hernan Mauricio Fajardo Gonzalez
Thesis: Downstream Effects of Post Aerobic Digestion and Divalent Cation Treatment: Dewaterability, Phosphorus Mitigation, and Process Odors, Maya Marisol Quijano Garcia
Thesis: Dissecting the Etiology of Alcohol Use Disorder by an Integrative Heritable Component Approach, Ivy Garrenton
Dissertation: Social Capital as an Intervening Explanatory Mechanism Linking Socioeconomic Status and Deliberative Decision-Making in Citizen Advisory Boards in California Municipalities, Christopher Gerry
Dissertation: A Theoretical Framework for Recursion in Complex System Governance, Gilbert Goddin
Dissertation: How Women Community College Department Chairs Experience Leadership Work, Stephanie L. Goldenberg
Dissertation: Extending the Job Demands-Resource Model in Classified Work Environments: A Longitudinal Analysis of Job Demands, Resources, Job Satisfaction, and Retention Among Engineers, Gregory Gooden
Dissertation: The War Poetry Map Project: Exploring the Physical and Emotional Geography of Conflict, Colin D. Halloran
Dissertation: Women's Displacement and the Reclamation of Identity: Navigating Landscapes of Contestation in the Postcolonial Novel, Carol P. Harvest
Thesis: Two Heads and an Application: A Journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew C. Holsopple
Dissertation: Advancing Environmental Risk Assessment Through Hydro-Climatological Modeling, Geospatial Analytics, and Machine Learning, Chathuranika Imiya Mudiyanselage
Dissertation: Microstructural and Thermal Studies of Niobium on Copper Fabricated by Sputtering and Multicharged Ion Deposition, Md Obidul Islam
Thesis: Exploring System Wide Trust and Dependency Behavior Within an Aviation Environment, Austin Jackson
Dissertation: Hybridization as a Driver of Biodiversity and Its Ecological Implications, Devani L. Jolman
Thesis: Exploring the Perceptions of United States Dentists and Dental Hygienists Towards Implementation of New Workforce Shortage Policies, Hite N. Jones
Dissertation: Empowering Change: Building Environmental Sustainability Initiatives and Becoming a Sustainability Champion, Amanda C. Karls
Dissertation: The Effects of COVID 19 Job Demands on Public Sector Employees’ Organizational Commitment: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Job Burnout, and the Moderating Role of Supervisor Support, Benjamin R. Kaufman
Dissertation: Exclusive Neutral Pion Electroproduction Cross Section Measurements with a Neutral Particle Spectrometer, Mitchell R. Kerver
Dissertation: "On the Same Rope": An Exploratory Study of Staff Experiences at the Mountain Seed Foundation's Healing Base Camp Program, Jill C. Kivikoski
Dissertation: The Lived Experiences of Master's Level Counselors in Professional Counseling Association Leadership, Catalina R. Kraft
Thesis: PTSD Symptoms and Cannabis Use Among College Students: Examining the Role of Trauma-Related Cannabis Use to Cope, Christopher T. Latourrette
Thesis: Engineering Cryogenic Thermal Links and Transport Systems for Conduction-Cooled Superconducting Cavities, Jacob B. Lewis
Thesis: Swimming Behavior of Longfin Squid Doryteuthis pealeii Paralarvae: Escape Jets to Pirouettes, Mel Lhuillier
Dissertation: Curiosity Dimensions as Predictors of Constructive Workplace Deviance, Nolan Lovett
Thesis: Perceptions of Virginia Dentists and Dental Hygienists Towards Emerging Alternative Dental Hygiene Workforce Provider Models, Lauren B. Mangum
Dissertation: Exploring the Physical Education Experiences of Blind and Visually Impaired Hispanic Multilingual Learners in Integrated Settings, Sheyla G. Martinez-Rivera
Dissertation: Development of a Benchmark Building Condition Index Utilizing Discrete Facility Subsets for Use in Risk Prioritization Analysis, Christopher A. May
Dissertation: Student Perceptions of the Community of Inquiry in Online Human Anatomy and Physiology Discussion Boards Using 2-D and 3-D Anatomical Models, Timothy J. McGuire
Dissertation: Learning In Motion: How Small Groups Can Promote Self-Regulated Learning in Physical Therapy Students, Sara McLaren
Dissertation: Mechanisms of Synergy Between Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) and Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Discharge (CAP) in Pancreatic Cancer: The Role of ROS-Mediated Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis, Zobia Minhas
Dissertation: Modeling Early Indicators for Success in an Associate Degree in Nursing Program, Joseph D. Moss
Dissertation: Perceptions of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Program, Angela H. Napier
Thesis: Prince Thirteen, Jerome D. Newsome
Dissertation: Back Yard Lingo: Language as Cultural Identity in American Circus, Aíne Norris
Dissertation: Herding Cats: The Behavioral Foundations of Successful Multi-sector Partnerships, Paul B. Olsen
Thesis: Shadowrunning the Human: Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun Series and Transhumanism, Alexander P. Orelup
Dissertation: The Role of Autonomy and Motivation on Teacher Retention: A Mixed Methods Study, Jordan Overton
Thesis: Field of Impermanent Scars: Poems, Megan A. Pastore
Dissertation: Assessing Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Organizational Effectiveness Through a Multidimensional Theoretical Model: An Interpretive Phenomenological Qualitative Case Study, Andrea M. Paul
Thesis: Foreign Bodies: A Novel, Helen F. Peluso
Thesis: Behavioral, System, and Informational Cyberattacks: A Human-in-the-Loop Driving Simulator Experiment, Samuel Petkac
Thesis: Framework for Proximity Drone Navigation Using Gaze Gestures, Kayla Pineda
Dissertation: Building Adaptive Leaders: Examining the Relationship Between Undergraduate Co-Curricular Leadership Roles, Change Readiness, and Leadership Self-Efficacy, Reneldo N. Randall
Dissertation: Statistical Learning Methods for Predicting Ordinal and Count Outcomes in Genomics Data, Heranga Kalpani Rathnasekara
Thesis: Objectification and Discrimination Among Bi+ Women: Body Image Outcomes and the Moderating Role of Relationship Type and Partner Gender, Kaitlyn E. Ryan
Dissertation: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study of the "Intervention Implementation Experience" with Department Chairs and Program Coordinators During a Performance Improvement, Courtney W. Schoolmaster
Thesis: The Body Dealer, Tori Scotti
Dissertation: Learning Techniques in Prediction of Functional Epigenomic Events, Mohammad Shiri
Dissertation: Assessing Shifts in Leadership Language: A Comparative Study of the AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders, Bethany A. Siehr
Dissertation: Bridging Mission and Execution: Integrating Participatory Design in Early-Phase Mission Engineering for Stakeholder Alignment and Mission Clarity, Rafi Soule
Dissertation: “You’ve Built a Beautiful World”: Hope, Care, and the Utopian Ideals of the Cozy Fantastic, Jessica Haden Stanley
Dissertation: A Study of Short-Range Correlated Pair Formation Mechanisms, Noah S. Swan
Dissertation: Considering Special Education Program Performance Analysis and Teacher and Student Involvement in Transition Planning: A Delphi Study to Prioritize Student Interests, Strengths, and Transition Assessment, Charles S. Thull
Dissertation: Biocrude From Organic Waste and Its Conversion to Hard Carbon: Experimental and Modeling Study, Isamu Umeda
Thesis: Infection Relationships of Rose Rosette Disease in a Cultivated Collection, Ray Volkin
Dissertation: Profiles of Science Students’ Achievement Emotions: An Exploration of Motivational Antecedents and Persistence Outcomes over Time, Arianna White-Levatich
Dissertation: “Recollecting the Told Story”: Storytelling, Activism, and the Black Maternal Health Emergency, Lamaya C. Williams
Dissertation: The Leadership Lens: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Sensemaking Experiences of School Leaders Implementing Virginia's New Standards of Accreditation and Accountability, Paul M. Wilson Jr.
Dissertation: Sensemaking by Rural Community College Mid-Level Academic Leaders During Localized Disruptions: A Critical Incident Technique Study, Donata Worrell
Dissertation: Pushing High-Performance Private Inference Towards Resource-Constrained Edge Clients, Xiangrui Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Dissertation: A Focused Ethnography: Mental Health Therapists in Pediatric Integrated Care, Melanie Agustin
Dissertation: SCITEUQ: Toward Uncertainty-Aware Complex Scientific Table Data Extraction and Understanding, Kehinde Ajayi
Dissertation: Supervisees’ Responsiveness in Supervision With Doctoral Student Supervisors, Zübeyde Akpakır
Dissertation: Predictors of Healthcare Providers' Readiness for Health System Transformation in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Ali Alasiri
Dissertation: Graduate Physical Therapy Students Perceived Benefit of Prior Anatomy Experiences Following Their First Semester Graduate Physical Therapy Anatomy Course, Austin Alexander
Dissertation: Unfolding Particle Detector Effects and solving QCD Inverse Problem with Generative AI, Tareq Saeed Alghamdi
Dissertation: Advanced Analytical Biosensing for Cancer Detection and Neural Diagnostics Using Tapered Optical Fiber (TOF), Protonic, and High Throughput Microplate –Based Technologie, Bayan Hassan Alharbi
Dissertation: A Systematic Review of Corporate Ethics Program Training Strategies to Improve Ethical Workplace Cultures, Robin Raye Altice
Dissertation: Acculturation Experiences of International Students in the U.S. CACREP-Accredited Counselor Education Programs: Challenges, Support Systems, and Systemic Barriers, Nargiza Amirova
Dissertation: Development of Flexible Lactate-Specific Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Based on Laser-Induced Graphene Electrochemical Biosensors for Disease Diagnosis, Christopher Animashaun
Dissertation: The Impact of Drought and Socio-Economic Factors on Attitudes Toward Immigrants in South Africa, Pamela Antwi-Nimarko