{"id":103168,"date":"2025-07-11T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=103168"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:27:09","slug":"thesis-defences-july-14-to-july-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/07\/thesis-defences-july-14-to-july-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 July 14 to July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, July 14 and Friday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of \u200bScience in Applied Health Sciences (Health Sciences) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rita Kocsis, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cBreakfast in the Digital Age: The Influence of Social Media Use and Diet Content on Eating Behaviours among Canadian Adolescents\u201d on Monday, July 14 from 9 a.m. to noon in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Alisa Grigorovich, Chair; Will Pickett and Karen Patte, Supervisors; Diane Mack, External Examiner (Brock University); and Samantha Hajna, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of \u200bScience in Applied Health Sciences (Kinesiology) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taylor Tiessen, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cDynamic Strength Index and Countermovement Jump Performance in Female and Male Collegiate Basketball Athletes Across a Competitive Season\u201d on Wednesday, July 16 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in WC 204.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Amanda Black, Chair; Nicole Chimera, Supervisor; Michael Kennedy, External Examiner (University of Alberta); and Michael Holmes and Kelly Lockwood, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Mathematics and Statistics thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sambavi Arulnandhy, a Master of Science in Mathematics and Statistics candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cEnhanced EEG Spectral Decomposition with Applications to Neurodevelopmental Changes in ADHD\u201d on Tuesday, July 15 at 9:30 a.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; William Marshall, Supervisor; Stephen Emrich, External Examiner (Brock University); and Jan Vrbik and Ejaz Ahmed, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarfaroz Yunusov, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cTowards Personalized LLMs: Investigating Narrative Generation and Personality-Based Preferences in Large Language Models\u201d on Tuesday, July 15 at 10 a.m. in MCH 313.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Ali Emami, Supervisor; Blessing Ogbuokiri, External Examiner (Brock University); and Renata Queiroz Dividino, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikta Gohari Sadr, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cThink or Step-by-Step? Unzipping the Black Box in Zero-Shot Prompts\u201d on Wednesday, July 16 at 1 p.m. in MCH 313.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Ali Emami, Supervisor; Yifeng Li, External Examiner (Brock University); and Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisory Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, July 14 and Friday, July 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,188,55,41],"tags":[7066,1696,996,2156,4753,7488,13121,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103220,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103168\/revisions\/103220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}