{"id":104758,"date":"2025-09-26T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=104758"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:54:40","slug":"thesis-defences-sept-29-to-oct-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/09\/thesis-defences-sept-29-to-oct-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Sept. 29 to Oct. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Sept. 29 and Friday, Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of <\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>Science in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Health Sciences) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evelin Melekh, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cCharacterizing brain and bone outcomes in an aging novel humanized mouse model of sporadic Alzheimer&#8217;s disease\u201d on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from noon to 3 p.m. in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Terry Wade, Chair; Rebecca MacPherson, Supervisor; Stephen Glasgow, External Examiner (Brock University); and Wendy Ward and Val Fajardo, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of <\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>Arts in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Sport Management) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duncan Payne, a Master of \u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cSport Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Case Study\u201d on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 9 a.m to noon in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Craig Hyatt, Chair; Kyle Rich, Supervisor; Joshua Barrett, External Examiner\u00a0(Memorial University of Newfoundland); and\u00a0Johnahon Edwards and Mike VanBussel, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies thesis defence<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kendra Nadine White, a Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cA Comparison of Hero-Identified and Hero-Unidentified Dependent Group Contingencies to Increase Children\u2019s Physical Activity During Recess\u201d on Monday, Sept. 29 from 12:45 to 2:45 p.m. in TH 150.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Allyson Ion, Chair; Kimberley Zonneveld, Supervisor and Graduate Program Director; Meghan Deshais, External Examiner (Rutgers University); and David Ditor and Julie Koudys, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sydney Faith Running, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cWho Dates Who? Using Latent Profiles to Characterize Adolescent\u2019s Mate Value\u201d on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 2 to 4 p.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Karen Campbell, Chair; Tony Volk, Supervisor; Jennifer Livingston, External Examiner (University of Buffalo); Heather Ramey, Graduate Program Director; and Jan Frijters and Ann Farrell, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Sept. 29 and Friday, Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,38],"tags":[244,8485,4753,7488,522,3258,1512,14185,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104758"}],"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=104758"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104885,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104758\/revisions\/104885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}