{"id":14929,"date":"2012-02-01T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=14929"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:26:22","slug":"thesis-defences-%e2%80%94-feb-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/02\/thesis-defences-%e2%80%94-feb-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Feb. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MSc in Physics \u2014 Laila Obied<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laila Obied will defend her thesis on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 9 a.m. in WH147. Her thesis is titled &#8220;Infrared Spectroscopy of Gadolinium.&#8221; Her examination committee members are: A. Joffre Mercier, chair; Silva Mittler (University of Western Ontario), external examiner; David Crandles, supervisor; Krill Samokhin and Thad Harroun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSc in Physics \u2014 Sepiedeh Pirasteh <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sepiedeh Pirasteh will present her thesis on Friday, Feb. 3 at 2:30 p.m. in WH147. Her thesis is titled &#8220;Crystallinity, Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Bi doped LaVO3 and self synthesized LaVO3+V2O3 composites.&#8221; Her examination committee members are: A. Joffre Mercier, chair; Rachel Wortis (Trent University), external examiner; Fereidoon Razavi, supervisor; Bozidar Mitrovic and David Crandles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSc in Biological Sciences \u2014\u00a0Brent Wiens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brent Wiens will defend his thesis on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1 p.m. in WH147. His thesis is titled &#8220;Functional genomics of BAHD acyltransferases in different varieties of the wine grape, Vitis vinifera.&#8221; His examination committee members are: Shyamal Bose, chair; Elizabeth Werelilnyk (McMaster University), external examiner; Vincenzo De Luca, supervisor; Adonis Skandalis and Sandra Peters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MA in Leisure Studies \u2014\u00a0Richard Broer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Broer will defend his thesis on Monday, Feb. 13 at 9:30 a.m. in WC204B. Title: &#8220;A basis for understanding volunteer coach retention in youth sports.&#8221; Supervisor: Trent Newmeyer; advisory committee: Philip Sullivan and Julie Stevens; external examiner: Joanne MacLean; chair: TBA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MA in Leisure Studies \u2014 Jocelyn Murtell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jocelyn Murtell will defend her thesis on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 1 p.m. in WH147. Title: &#8220;A Foucauldian Analysis of Power and Representation in an Attempt to Run a Photovoice Project with Youth.&#8221; Supervisor: Erin Sharpe; advisory committee: Cathy Van Ingen and Hans Skott-Myhre; external examiner: Brett Lashua, Leeds Metropolitan University; chair: TBA .<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis defences posted on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[28,49,3330,230,3328,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929"}],"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=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions\/14932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}