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: Electromyography, Prosthetic Properties, and Running Biomechanics in Recreationally Active Persons with Lower Extremity Amputation, Paige M. Agnew
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
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
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
Dissertation: Identifying Professional Development Needs of Deans at California Community Colleges, Matilda D. Chavez
Dissertation: Policies, Pedagogies, and Pressures: A WPA's Design-based Approach to First-year Writing Program Development, Megan A. Crowley-Watson
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
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
Thesis: Downstream Effects of Post Aerobic Digestion and Divalent Cation Treatment: Dewaterability, Phosphorus Mitigation, and Process Odors, Maya Marisol Quijano Garcia
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: 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
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: 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: Swimming Behavior of Longfin Squid Doryteuthis pealeii Paralarvae: Escape Jets to Pirouettes, Mel Lhuillier
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: 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
Dissertation: Back Yard Lingo: Language as Cultural Identity in American Circus, Aíne Norris
Dissertation: The Role of Autonomy and Motivation on Teacher Retention: A Mixed Methods Study, Jordan Overton
Thesis: Foreign Bodies: A Novel, Helen F. Peluso
Thesis: Behavioral, System, and Informational Cyberattacks: A Human-in-the-Loop Driving Simulator Experiment, Samuel Petkac
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: 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: 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
Dissertation: Understanding Executive Order 13583’s Impact to Federal Workforce Diversity & Employee Perception of Federal Policies and Programs, Michael Robert Arenella
Dissertation: The Impact of North Carolina State Aid on Community College Students, Wesley Rhea Armstrong
Thesis: Investigating the Discrepancies between Acoustic and Radar Measurements of Water Level Using Data Analysis and Computational Modeling, Ohiedul Haque Mohammad Asad
Dissertation: Investigating the Ability to Perceive Nonverbal Behaviors in Different Interaction Formats, Amanda J. Ashdown
Dissertation: Two Essays on Firms’ Reactions to Major Events in Rival Companies, Alireza Askarzadeh
Dissertation: Examining Access, Outcomes, and the Experiences of Black Women: Improving Racial Equity in Adult Drug Treatment Court, LaQuana N. Askew
Dissertation: Two Essays on Customer Loyalty, Arjang Attar Shoushtari
Dissertation: “We Are Trans, But We’re Not Transitional”: Exploring Safety, Place, and Space in the Lives of Transgender Individuals in Southeastern Virginia, Susana Avalos
Dissertation: Effects of High Temperature Compaction on 3D Printed Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, John D. Barber
Dissertation: When Nonbinary Becomes Binary: Exploring Transnormativity Experiences of Gender Diverse Individuals, Yusuf Barburoğlu
Thesis: Exploring Bonding Through Outdoor Recreation in Foster Care Utilizing Attachment Theory, Casandra L. Barnes
Dissertation: Policymaker Receptivity to Corporate Political Activity as Influenced by Activists, Mark E. Bateman
Thesis: The Aid Impact Theory: A Theoretical Framework for Maximizing the Impact and Sustainability of Foreign Education Aid in Ghana, Jonas Bensah
Thesis: Why We Don't Talk Anymore, William Lowell Blair
Dissertation: United States Involvement in Iran's 1979 Regime Change. An Analysis of the Carter Administration's Role, Ebrahim Bolouki
Dissertation: Terrestrial and Lacustrine Organic Matter Biomolecular Transformations via Thermal Maturation and Oxidative Degradation, Louis Connor Bondurant
Thesis: Inter-Cellular Forces Modulate Cell-ECM Traction Forces, Zaria Booth
Dissertation: Persistence and Completion Rates of Community College Students: The Impact of Receptivity to Social Engagement Scores Compared to Recorded Cocurricular Activity, Nancy Wagner Boylan
Dissertation: Examining the Impact of a Utility Value Intervention on Self-Regulated Learning Engagement, Wanda D. Brooks
Dissertation: Marginalized Pre-Service Teachers’ Digital Competence: An Exploration of Epistemic Beliefs and Lived Experiences, Jerolyn Rose Brown
Thesis: Component Model Development of Heat Exchangers, Expanders, and Control Valves for Autonomous Cryogenics Plant Cool-Down, William Harris Buhrig IV
Thesis: Biogenic Modification of Tidally Modified Substrates from the Micro- to Macroscopic Scale, Rogers Clark Caldwell Buntin II
Thesis: Atop a Mountain in the Winter, John Hanlon Burnside
Thesis: Combining Captive and Field Studies to Investigate the Energetics and Water Balance of Ectotherms, Karen Andrea Caceres
Dissertation: Towards Efficient Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning: HE-Friendly Structures, Flexible Pruning, HE-Efficient Architectures, and Secure Transformer Token Drop, Yifei Cai
Dissertation: Who Gets to Lead? Policy, Systemic Barriers, and Leadership Norms in Education, Kathryn A. Cirilli
Dissertation: Contemporary Student Activism in a Digital Age, Jennifer Kristen Cohen
Thesis: Compulsory Sterilisation and Reproductive Injustice in India: The Global Impact of the American Eugenics Movement, Marina Cortez
Dissertation: Playthinking a Mad World: Gears of War, Science Fiction Video Games, and Speculative Play Within the Global War (of) Terror's Legacy in American National Mythology, Eric Locken Cummins
Dissertation: Does Motivation Matter? An Investigation of the Influence of Public Service Motivation on the Performance of Public-Private Partnerships in New Jersey, Giovanni Cusmano
Dissertation: Un-Tempering the Tempered Radical: A Phenomenological Study of Black Female Superintendents in Neoliberal Education Systems, Melanie Fitzgerald Daniel
Dissertation: Structural Insights into the Enterovirus Replication Platform: A Potential Target for Inhibiting Viral Replication, Morgan Grace Daniels
Dissertation: The Paradox of Discipline: Equity, Standardization, and Black Student Outcomes in Public Schools, LaTricia T. Davenport
Dissertation: Endotherm Energetics Under Environmental and Physiological Constraints, Zachary Andrew David
Thesis: Gatekeeping Girlhood: TikTok as an Agent of Gender and Racial Socialization, Kennedy Elyza Davis
Dissertation: Learning Regulatory DNA-Sequence Code of Epigenetic Events Using Deep Neural Networks, Sanjeeva Reddy Dodlapati
Dissertation: Modeling the Impacts of Disruptive Events on Driving Behaviors, Transportation Safety, and Equity: Advanced Statistical Insights from the Covid-19 Pandemic, Xiaomeng Dong
Dissertation: Investigating Gender Differences in Intimate Partner Violence Using Gendered General Strain Theory, Stephanie Victoria Dragon
Thesis: Heart of an Angel Machine, Helena Edge