The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Dec. 20 and Friday, Dec. 24.<\/p>\n
Master of Arts in Geography thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Lena Adeetuk, a Master of Arts in Geography candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0“Rural Youths’ Perspectives on the Significance and Impacts of New Roads: The Case of Kaasa – Zogsa Road, Builsa North District, Ghana”\u00a0on Monday, Dec. 20 at 9:30 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0David Butz, Supervisor;\u00a0Godwin Arku, External Examiner\u00a0(Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University); Jeff Boggs, Graduate Program Director; and Chris Fullerton and Tony Shaw, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Nicole Sinha, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0“Measuring the Reading-Attention Relationship: Functional Differences in Working Memory Activity During Single Word Decoding in Children With and Without Reading Disorder”\u00a0on Tuesday, Dec. 21 at 9:30 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Jan Frijters, Supervisor;\u00a0Karen Campbell, External Examiner\u00a0(Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging, Department of Psychology, Brock University); Hannah Dyer, Graduate Program Director; and Erin Panda, Committee Member Ayda Tekok-Kilic, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Science in Biological Sciences thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Luc J. Wasilewicz, a Master of Science in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cInvestigating the modulation of\u00a0Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>\u00a0body-wall muscle contraction by the neuropeptide DPKQDFMRFamide\u201d\u00a0on Tuesday, Dec. 21 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Thad Harroun, Chair; Joffre Mercier, Supervisor; Rosa da Silva, External Examiner (Department of Biology, McMaster University); and Cheryl McCormick and Gaynor Spencer, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Dec. 20 and Friday, Dec. 24.<\/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":[49,45,607,348,522,68,3335,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75762"}],"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=75762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75763,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75762\/revisions\/75763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}