{"id":109702,"date":"2026-05-15T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=109702"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:54:59","slug":"thesis-defences-may-19-to-may-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/05\/thesis-defences-may-19-to-may-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 May 19 to May 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0May\u00a019\u00a0and Friday,\u00a0May\u00a022.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Zachary McGovarin, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Three-Body Diffusion: A Novel Molecular Generation Model for Multi-Target De Novo Drug Design&#8221; on Wednesday, May 20 from 10 a.m. to noon online.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Betty Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Blessing Ogbuokiri, External Examiner (Brock University); and Yifeng Li and Divya Matta, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Master of \u200b Science in Applied Health Sciences\u202f(Health Sciences) thesis defence<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Fatima Laeeq, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cThe Effect of Serum C-Reactive Protein and Vitamin D levels on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Cardiovascular Risk among Canadian Older Adults: An Analysis of the Cohort from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging\u201d on Thursday, May 21\u00a0from 9 a.m. to\u00a0noon\u00a0in STH 361.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The examination committee includes Terry Wade, Chair; Newman Sze\u00a0and\u00a0Jason Liu, Supervisors; Bill Gittings, External Examiner (Brock University);\u00a0and\u00a0Wendy Ward, Committee Member.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, May 19 and Friday, May 22.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[7488,348,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109702"}],"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=109702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109800,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109702\/revisions\/109800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}