{"id":67480,"date":"2020-08-21T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=67480"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:31:30","slug":"thesis-defences-aug-24-to-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/08\/thesis-defences-aug-24-to-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Aug. 24 to 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 24 to Friday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Psychology thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sean Robb, a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, will defend his thesis titled \u201cDistinct forms of\u00a0depression\u00a0and somatization\u00a0following head injury:\u00a0A neuropsychological framework\u00a0and exploratory treatment\u00a0paradigm\u00a0for\u00a0somatic\u00a0symptoms\u00a0and executive dysfunction\u00a0following mild head injury\u201d on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee members are Dawn Good, Supervisor; Tim Murphy, Stefan Brudzynski, and Edgardo Perez, Advisory Committee; \u00a0Sidney Kennedy, External Examiner (University of Toronto); Sheila Bennett, Internal Examiner and Brian Roy, Chair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Psychology thesis defence<\/strong><br \/>\nNivetha Prabaharan, a Master of Psychology (Lifespan Development stream) candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Victimization by Bullying and Non-Bullying Aggression: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective&#8221; on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 1 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Drew Dane, Supervisor; Heather Chalmers, External Examiner (Associate Professor, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University); Stephen Emrich, Graduate Program Director; Anthony Volk, Committee Member and Angela Book, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yongya Li, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled \u201cDevelopment of Universal Biosensing Platforms Based on CRISPR\/Cas12a systems\u201d on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 1 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Feng Li, Supervisor; Keith Pardee, External Examiner (University of Toronto); and Melanie Pilkington and Travis Dudding, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Applied Health Sciences thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esther Sampaio Santos, a PhD candidate in Applied Health Sciences, will defend her thesis titled \u201cCan exergaming improve mental health of university students?\u201d on Friday, August 28 at 9:45 a.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee members are Philip Wilson, Supervisor; Shannon Kerwin, Diane Mack, and Jae Patterson, Advisory Committee; \u00a0Melanie Gregg, External Examiner (University of Winnipeg); Tony DiPetta, Internal Examiner; and Wendy Ward, Chair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 24 to Friday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,188,55,41,38],"tags":[7437,7488,607,348,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67480"}],"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=67480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67708,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67480\/revisions\/67708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}