{"id":59685,"date":"2019-08-16T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=59685"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:27:30","slug":"thesis-defences-aug-19-to-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/08\/thesis-defences-aug-19-to-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Aug. 19 to 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Monday, Aug. 19 to Friday, Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>All are open for the University community to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts thesis defences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master of Arts in Critical Sociology student Michelle Lesley Annett\u00a0will defend the thesis\u00a0&#8220;Doing What &#8216;Works Best&#8217;: Exploring the Narratives of Mothers Who Work as Strippers&#8221;\u00a0on Tuesday, Aug, 20\u00a0at 10 a.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>Her examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Andrea Doucet, Supervisor; Stacey Hannem, External Examiner\u00a0(Associate Professor,\u00a0Department of\u00a0Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier\u00a0University); Jane Helleiner,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Kate Bezanson and\u00a0Mary-Beth Raddon,\u00a0Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Child and Youth Studies Master of Arts student William Janssen\u00a0will defend the thesis\u00a0\u201cThinking (and Thinking&#8230;) About Perfection: A Test of the Perfectionism Cognitions Theory&#8221;\u00a0on Tuesday, Aug. 20\u00a0at 2 p.m. in\u00a0WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee includes Angela Book, Chair;\u00a0Danielle Sirianni-Molnar, Supervisor;\u00a0Kathryn Fletcher, External Examiner\u00a0(Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Ball State\u00a0University);\u00a0Shauna Pomerantz,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Dawn Zinga, Ayda Tekok-Kilic and\u00a0Tim Murphy, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrei Solodinin, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled \u201cSynthesis of fluorinated nucleosides for probing DNA conformations via 19F NMR spectroscopy&#8221; on Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 9 a.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Tony Yan, Supervisor; Jean-Paul Desaulniers, External Examiner (Ontario University Institute of Technology); and Melanie Pilkington and Travis Dudding, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Devin Patrick Ward, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled \u201cEngineering Optogenetic Control of Endocytic Recycling: Controlling Rab11 Function in Drosophila melanogaster using Engineered Light-Responsive Nanobodies\u201d on Thursday, Aug. 22 at 9 a.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Aleksandar Necakov, Supervisor; Roger Jacobs, External Examiner (McMaster University); and Alan Castle and Heather Gordon, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Monday, Aug. 19 to Friday, Aug. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55,41,38],"tags":[49,48,45,33,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685"}],"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=59685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59686,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685\/revisions\/59686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}