{"id":110058,"date":"2026-06-05T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=110058"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:18:50","slug":"thesis-defences-june-8-to-june-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/06\/thesis-defences-june-8-to-june-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 June 8 to June 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, June 8 and Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Biological Sciences thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Elbert Villena, a Master of Science candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Graph Attention Mechanisms for Modeling Pathway-Level Importance from Gene Expression&#8221; on Monday,\u00a0June 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Yifeng Li, Supervisor; Xiaojian Shao, External Examiner (National Research Council); and Tony Yan and Adonis Skandalis, Supervisory Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Master of Arts in Psychology thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haley McStravick, a Master of Arts in Psychology candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Social Evaluations of Children\u2019s Procrastination&#8221; on Monday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to noon in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Erin Panda, Chair; Caitlin Mahy, Supervisor; David Rosenbaum, External Examiner (University of California, Riverside); Karen Campbell, Graduate Program Director; and Michael Busseri and Angela Evans, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Psychology thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mirella Rocca, a Master of Arts in Psychology candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;The Development of Spontaneous Episodic Future Thinking in Young Children&#8221; on Thursday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to noon in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Stefan Dolgert, Chair; Caitlin Mahy, Supervisor; Melissa Kibbe, External Examiner (Boston University); Karen Campbell, Graduate Program Director and Committee Member; and Cristina Atance (University of Ottawa), Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Arts in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Community Health) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allayna Barrett,\u00a0a Master of\u00a0\u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cA Qualitative Exploration of Meaning in the lives of Niagara Young People &amp; its Implications for Mental Health and Health Equity\u201d on Friday, June 12 from 9 a.m. to noon in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Luke Turcotte, Chair; Val Michaelson, Supervisor;\u00a0Garrett Hutson,\u00a0External Examiner\u00a0(Brock University); and\u00a0Sheila O\u2019Keefe-McCarthy and Pauli Gardner, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, June 8 and Friday, June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55],"tags":[546,7488,348,522,3258,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110058"}],"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=110058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110059,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110058\/revisions\/110059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}