{"id":110520,"date":"2026-06-19T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=110520"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:19:10","slug":"thesis-defences-june-22-to-june-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/06\/thesis-defences-june-22-to-june-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 June 22 to June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, June 22 and Friday, June 26.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Chemistry thesis defence<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srini Vemulapalli, a PhD in Chemistry candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cPhotophysical Properties of Cyclopropenium Ions with Applications in [4+2] and [3+2] Cycloadditions\u201d on Tuesday, June 23 from 1 to 4 p.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Marilyne Carrey, Chair; Travis Dudding, Supervisor; Stefan France, External Examiner (Georgia Institute of Technology); Jim Willwerth, Internal Examiner; and Melanie Pilkington and Tony Yan, Supervisory Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master in Arts in History thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gary Gardell, a Master of Arts in History candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0\u201cModernist Dreams and Post-modernist Fractures: Lacrosse, Civic Identity, and National Myths in St. Catharines, Ontario, 1870s \u2013 1920s&#8221; on Tuesday, June 23 from 10 a.m. to noon in RFP 313.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Elizabeth Vlossak, Chair; Murray Wickett, Supervisor; Donald Fisher, External Examiner (SUNY Niagara); and Joshua Manitowabi, Second Reader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Critical Sociology thesis <\/strong><strong>defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patricia Hurst, a Master of Arts in Critical Sociology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201c\u201cIs This How I Express That Love?\u201d: How Graduates of Zoological Education Experience Learning About Animals\u201d on Monday, June 22 from 1 to 3 p.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Lauren Corman, Supervisor; Joshua Russell, External Examiner (Canisius College); Tamari Kitossa, Graduate Program Director; and Stefan Dolgert and Nancy Cook, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>Arts in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Community Health) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Gebru,\u00a0a Master of\u00a0\u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cThe Experiences of Black Youth who Self-identify as Male as they Navigate the Toronto Healthcare System: A Strength-based Approach\u201d on Tuesday, June 23 from 9 a.m. to noon in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Alisa Grigorovich, Chair; Valerie Michaelson and Sheila O\u2019Keefe-McCarthy, Supervisors;\u00a0Nadia Prendergast,\u00a0External Examiner\u00a0(Toronto Metropolitan University); and\u00a0Mona Sawhney, Committee Member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, June 22 and Friday, June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,37,41,38],"tags":[7437,506,14757,7488,384,348,522,3258,13248,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110520"}],"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=110520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110521,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110520\/revisions\/110521"}],"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=110520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}