The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 23 to Friday, Aug. 27.<\/p>\n
Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Amirali Madani, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis \u201cMulti-Guide Particle Swarm Optimization for Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization Problems” on Monday, Aug. 23 at 2:30 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Brian Ross, External Examiner; and Naser Ezzati-Jivan and Kyle Harrison, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies\u00a0thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Hanna Vance, a Master of Arts candidate in Applied Disability Studies, will defend her thesis\u00a0“Evaluating Procedural Refinements to the Performance Diagnostic Checklist for Human Services”\u00a0on Tuesday, Aug. 24 at 1 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Valdeep Saini, Supervisor; Byron Wine, External Examiner\u00a0(Chief Operating Officer at the Faison Center; Adjunct Professor of Applied Behaviour Analysis, Shenandoah University);\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Kimberley Zonneveld and Laura Mullins, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Grayson Hayes, a Master of Arts candidate in Child and Youth Studies, will defend her thesis “Beyond the Headlines: Examining Media Portrayals of Youth Climate Activists” on Wednesday, Aug. 25 at 2 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Richard Mitchell, Supervisor; Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, External Examiner\u00a0(Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director for Youth Work, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University);\u00a0Hannah Dyer,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Shauna Pomerantz and Christine Tardif-Williams, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 23 to Friday, Aug. 27.<\/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":[244,45,97,607,348,522,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73715"}],"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=73715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73722,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73715\/revisions\/73722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}