{"id":111085,"date":"2026-08-07T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=111085"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:58:07","slug":"thesis-defences-aug-10-to-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/08\/thesis-defences-aug-10-to-14-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Aug. 10 to 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Aug. 10 and Friday, Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Psychology thesis\u00a0defences\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Merante, a Master of Arts in Psychology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cEffects of event tagging on memory and eye-movements in younger and older adults\u201d on Monday, Aug. 10\u00a0from 1 to 3 p.m. in\u00a0PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes\u00a0Gale\u00a0Coskan-Johnson, Chair; Karen Campbell, Supervisor; Christopher Wahlheim, External Examiner (University of North Carolina, Greensboro); Karen Campbell, Graduate Program Director; and Stephen Emrich and Heather Bailey (Kansas State University), Committee Members.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Hannah Thomas, a Master of Arts in Psychology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cAge Differences in Distractor Processing at Event Boundaries: Evidence from Eye Movements\u201d on Wednesday, Aug. 12\u00a0from\u00a01 to 3 p.m. in\u00a0PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Naomi Andrews, Chair; Karen Campbell, Supervisor and Graduate Program Director;\u00a0Khena\u00a0Swallow, External Examiner (Cornell University); and Karen Arnell and Jordana\u00a0Wynn (University of Victoria), Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong><strong>aster of Science in Statistics thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gunther, a Master of Science in Statistics candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cDimensionality Reduction Approaches for Baseball Swing Motion Analysis\u201d on Wednesday, Aug. 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in GSB 405.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Shawn Beaudette, External Examiner (Brock University); William Marshall, Supervisor; and Jan Vrbik and Syed Ejaz Ahmed, Supervisory Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Chemistry thesis defence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Areeba Iqbal, a Master of Science in Chemistry candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cExciton interactions in chiral two-dimensional perovskites\u201d on Thursday, Aug. 13 from 1 to 4 p.m. in closed format.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Jasneet Kaur, External Examiner (Brock University); Jianbo Gao, Supervisor; and Travis Dudding and Georgii Nikonov, Supervisory Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of \u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Sport Management) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moe Hussein,\u00a0a Master of\u00a0\u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;An exploration of management by values in community sport\u201d on Friday, Aug. 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Craig Hyatt, Chair; Ryan Clutterbuck, Supervisor;\u00a0Patti Millar,\u00a0External Examiner\u00a0(University of Windsor); and\u00a0Michael VanBussel and Taylor McKee, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Physics thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cameron Dyrseth, a Master of Science in Physics candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cQuantum Localization in Incommensurate Tight-Binding Chains\u201d on Friday, Aug. 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Jeffery Rau, External Examiner (University of Windsor); Kirill Samokhin, Supervisor; and David Crandles and Ganesh Ramachandran, Supervisory Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Aug. 10 and Friday, Aug. 14.<\/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":[48,7437,2156,389,546,4753,7488,348,522,3258,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111085"}],"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=111085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111089,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111085\/revisions\/111089"}],"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=111085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}