{"id":105936,"date":"2025-11-14T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=105936"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:52:02","slug":"thesis-defences-nov-17-to-nov-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/11\/thesis-defences-nov-17-to-nov-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Nov. 17 to Nov. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Nov. 17 and Friday, Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Michael Eshun, <\/span>a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cHome Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem with Genetic Algorithms\u201d on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 9:30 a.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Blessing Ogbuokiri, External Examiner; and Michael Winter, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of Science in Biotechnology thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Ishika Sharma, <\/span>a Master of Science in Biotechnology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cEstablishing Reverse Genetics Tools for Cell Fusing Agent Virus: Infectious Clone Assembly and Transfection in Mosquito Cells\u201d on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Tony Yan and Ian Patterson, Co-Supervisors; Aitor Casas-Sanchez (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK), External Examiner; and Yifeng Li, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of \u200bScience in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Kinesiology) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Laura Zottl, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201c<\/span>Evaluating the Fidelity of Movement that Matters, a Co-Developed Physical Activity Intervention for Adults Managing Chronic Pain\u201d<span data-ogsc=\"black\"> on Monday, Nov. 17 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. in WC 204.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The examination committee includes Stephen Cheung, Chair; Sean Locke, Supervisor; Julie Koudys, External Examiner (Brock University); and Phil Sullivan and Nancy Gyurcsik, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Nov. 17 and Friday, Nov. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,188,55,41],"tags":[28,3404,97,567,996,7488,348,15,3328,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105936"}],"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=105936"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106019,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105936\/revisions\/106019"}],"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=105936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}