The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, March 28 and Friday, April 1.

Master of Science in Management (Marketing Stream) thesis defence 

Sonal Shahid, a Master of Science in Management candidate, will defend the thesis “Innovation and Stock Returns” on Thursday, March 31, at 11 a.m. in virtual format.

The examination committee includes Ling Sun, Chair; Anisha Ghosh, External Examiner (Associate Professor of Finance, Academic Dir., McGill University); Skander Lazrack, Supervisor; and Mohamed Ayadi and Zhongzhi He, Committee Members.

Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics thesis defence

Jackie Lloyd, a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics candidate, will defend the thesis “The Effects of Various Combinations of Form-Focused Instruction Techniques on the Acquisition of English Articles by Second Language Learners of English” on Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.

The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Andrew Lee, Supervisor; Eva Kartchava, External Examiner (Assistant Director ALDS, Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Carleton University); Lynn Dempsey, Graduate Program Director; and Ron Thomson, Leila Ranta and Gary Libben, Committee Members.