{"id":62048,"date":"2019-12-13T08:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=62048"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:41:18","slug":"thesis-defences-dec-16-to-dec-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/12\/thesis-defences-dec-16-to-dec-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Dec. 16 to Dec. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Monday, Dec. 16 to Friday, Dec. 20.<\/p>\n<p>All are open for the University community to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justin Thomas Pentesco, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences, will defend his thesis titled \u201cAssessing environmental controls for candidate microbial ichnofossils in hydrothermally altered basaltic tuffs of Upsal Hogback, NV&#8221; on Monday, Dec. 16 at 11:30 a.m. in MC H313.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Edward Sternin, Chair; Mariek Schmidt, Supervisor; Lindsay J. McHenry, External Examiner (University of Wisconsin &#8211; Milwaukee); and Francine McCarthy and Frank Fueten, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities thesis defence<\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jill Planche, a PhD candidate in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, will defend her thesis titled \u201cThe Larger Stages: The \u2018Becoming Minor\u2019 of South African Theatres\u201d on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 9:30 a.m. in Welch Hall 147.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee members are David Fancy, Supervisor; Susan Spearey and Ebru Ustundag, Advisory Committee; Michael Vallee, External Examiner (Athabasca University); James Allard, Internal Examiner; and Wendy Ward, Chair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Applied Health Sciences defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Pilato, a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, will defend her thesis titled \u201cLessons learned from a critical appraisal of a fall break policy in higher education: A case study\u201d on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 1 p.m.<b> <\/b>in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee members are Madelyn Law, Supervisor; Shannon Moore, Miya Narushima and John Hay (Emeritus Professor, Brock University), Advisory Committee; Denise Stockley, External Examiner (Queen\u2019s University); Todd Green, Internal Examiner; Wendy Ward, Chair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Holt Nickolas Messner, a Master of Science candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend his thesis titled \u201cAn in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro exploration of the use of chronic hypoxia\/physioxia and ROS\/RNS-mediated alteration of physiological function in mitochondrial disease\u201d on Friday, Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. in MC H313.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Tony Yan, Chair; Jeffrey Stuart, Supervisor; Rebecca Macpherson, External Examiner (Brock University, Dept. Health Sciences); and Cheryl McCormick and Val Andrew Fajardo, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Monday, Dec. 16 to Friday, Dec. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,40,188,55,41],"tags":[115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62048"}],"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=62048"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62799,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62048\/revisions\/62799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}