The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Dec. 14 to Friday, Dec. 18.<\/p>\n
Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Mitchell D. Clark, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis \u201cComparative Study on Co-operative Particle Swarm Optimization Decomposition Methods for Large-scale Optimization” on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Kyle Harrison, External Examiner (University of New South Wales, Australia); and Brian J. Ross and Yifeng Li, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Applied Disability Studies Master of Arts\u00a0thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Bailey Ross, a Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies candidate, will defend her thesis\u00a0“Exploring the Utility of Differing Methodological Approaches to Measure Meaningful Change in Treatment and Intervention Scenarios”\u00a0on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Jan Frijters, Supervisor; Adrienne Perry, External Examiner\u00a0(Professor, Department of Psychology, York University);\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Alison Cox and Tricia Vause, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Applied Disability Studies Master of Arts\u00a0thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Alyssa Treszi, a Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies candidate, will defend her thesis\u00a0“Evaluating the Effects of the Picture Exchange Communication System Mediator Training via Telehealth Using Behaviour Skills Training”\u00a0on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 2:30 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga, Chair;\u00a0Julie Koudys, Supervisor; Peter Sturmey, External Examiner\u00a0(Professor of Psychology, Queens College);\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Kimberley Zonneveld and Maurice Feldman, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Psychology thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Racheal Herlehy, a Master of Psychology (Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience) candidate, will defend her thesis\u00a0“Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer”\u00a0on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Rosemary\u00a0Condillac,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Cheryl McCormick, Supervisor; John Mielke, External Examiner (Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo);\u00a0Stephen Emrich,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Teena Willoughby and Cameron Muir, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Dec. 14 to Friday, Dec. 18.<\/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":[244,97,29,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69661"}],"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=69661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69662,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69661\/revisions\/69662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}