{"id":60334,"date":"2019-09-13T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=60334"},"modified":"2019-09-13T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:56:01","slug":"thesis-defences-sept-16-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/09\/thesis-defences-sept-16-to-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Sept. 16 to 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Monday, Sept. 16 to Friday, Sept. 20.<\/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>Applied Disability Studies Master of Arts student Nancy Leathen will defend the thesis \u201cComparing the High-Probability Instructional Sequence with and without Food to Increase Acceptance of Nonpreferred Foods in Children with Food Selectivity&#8221; on Monday, Sept. 16 at 11 a.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>Her examination committee includes Kate Bezanson, Chair; Kimberley Zonneveld, Supervisor; Mitchell Fryling, External Examiner (Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Division of Special Education and Counselling, California State University); Maurice Feldman, Graduate Program Director; and Tricia Vause and Ivy Chong, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Master of Arts in Social Justice and Equity Studies student Kevin Hobbs will defend the thesis \u201cTo Know Their Stories: Using Playbuilding to Develop a Training\/Orientation Video on Person-Centred Care&#8221; on Monday, Sept. 16 at 11 a.m. in Plaza 600F.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Joe Norris, Supervisor; Sandra Faulkner, External Examiner (Professor of Communication, Bowling Green State University); Mary-Beth Raddon, Graduate Program Director; and Madelyn Law and Spy Denomme-Welch, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Fazio, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend his thesis titled \u201cAn Analogue of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz Vector for Timelike Geodesics in Schwarzschild Spacetime&#8221; on Monday, Sept. 16 at 1 p.m. in MCH 313.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee includes Robert Carlone, Chair; Stephen Anco, Supervisor; Cristina Stoica, External Examiner (Wilfrid Laurier University); and Bozidar Mitrovic and Edward Sternin, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>&#8212;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HamidReza Nayeri, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend his thesis titled \u201cTravelling Wave Solutions on a Non-zero Background for the Generalized Korteweg-de Vries Equation&#8221; on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>His examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Stephen Anco, Supervisor; Olga Trichtchenko, External Examiner (University of Western Ontario); and Kirill Samokhin and Edward Sternin, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Monday, Sept. 16 to Friday, Sept. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55,38],"tags":[244,81,128,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60334"}],"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=60334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60338,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60334\/revisions\/60338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}