{"id":7129,"date":"2010-12-14T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:35:08","slug":"thesis-defences-%e2%80%94-dec-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/12\/thesis-defences-%e2%80%94-dec-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Dec. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melissa Page \u2014 PhD in Biological Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Page, PhD student in Biological Sciences, will present her thesis defence on Friday, Dec. 17, at 9:30 a.m. in MC H313. The thesis title is \u201cIntracellular antioxidant and DNA repair enzymes as correlates of stress resistance and longevity in vertebrates.\u201d Examining committee members are: Joffre Mercier, chair; David Rollo, McMaster University, external examiner; Jeffrey Stuart, supervisor; Brian Roy, internal examiner; Glenn Tattersall and Doug Bruce, committee members. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frances Chandler \u2014 PhD in Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frances Chandler will present her thesis defence on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m. in WH147. The thesis title is \u201cLeadership and its Impact on the Success of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Funded Collaborative Research Projects.\u201d Examining committee members are: Marilyn Rose, chair; Ben Levin, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, external examiner; Michael Manley-Casimir, supervisor; Maureen Connolly, internal examiner; Renee Kuchapski and Hope Fennell, committee members. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel Mrak \u2014 MA in Sport Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joel Mrak will defend his thesis on Thursday, Dec. 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in WC204B. Thesis Title: Managing volunteers in Canadian Community Sport Organizations. Supervisor: Joanne MacLean; advisory committee: Laura Cousens and Philip Sullivan; external examiner: Shannon Kerwin, University of Florida; chair: Kirsty Spence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Pfleegor \u2014\u00a0MA in Physical Health and Education<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAdam Pfleegor will defend his thesis on Thursday, Dec. 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. in WC204B. Thesis title: &#8220;Deception in Sport: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis.&#8221; Supervisor: Danny Rosenberg; advisory committee: Ian Ritchie and Philip Sullivan; external examiner: Douglas Hochstetler, Penn State University; chair: Bareket Falk. All are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Carter \u2014 MSc in Kinesiology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Carter will defend his thesis on Friday, Dec. 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. in WH147. Thesis title: &#8220;Effects of Age on Learning a Spatial Motor Task in Younger and Older Adults Individualizing Their KR Schedule.&#8221; Supervisor: Jae Patterson; advisory committee: Allan Adkin and Craig Tokuno; external examiner: Steve Hansen, Nipissing University; chair: Phil Sullivan. All are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tymur Kirillov \u2014 MSc in Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master of Science in Management thesis defence for Tymur Kirillov, Faculty of Business, Department of Finance, Operations and Information Systems, will be Friday, Jan. 14 at 1:30 p.m. in Taro Hall 230. The title of his thesis is \u201cA Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach for Pricing Options on Stock Index Futures.\u201d His examining committee members are: Zisimos Koustas, chair; Don Chance, external examiner, Louisiana State University; Hatem Ben Ameur, supervisor; Mohamed Ayadi and Bob Welch. All are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis defences posted on Dec. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[28,49,32,3330,3328,66,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129"}],"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=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}