The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Aug. 29 and Friday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n
PhD in Biological Sciences thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric de Hoog, a PhD in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cModulation of Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels by Retinoic Acid Signaling\u201d on Monday, Aug. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in MC H313.<\/p>\n The examination committee members are Brian Roy, Chair; Gaynor Spencer, Supervisor; Alan Lomax, External Examiner (Queen\u2019s University); Val Fajardo, Internal Examiner; and Cheryl McCormick and Joffre Mercier, Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies thesis defences<\/strong><\/p>\n Alec Moore, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0“Tracing the Colonial Dimensions of ‘Special Education’: History, Disability, and Settler Colonialism”\u00a0on Monday, Aug. 29 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Hannah Dyer, Supervisor and Graduate Program Director;\u00a0David Hugill, External Examiner\u00a0(Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University); and Chelsea Jones and Richard Mitchell, Committee Members.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Emily Cauduro, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0“A Call to Action: How the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Has Influenced Policing Policy and Practice in Ontario”\u00a0on Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Voula Marinos, Supervisor;\u00a0Tammy Landau, External Examiner\u00a0(Associate Professor, Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University); Hannah Dyer,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and\u00a0Shannon Moore and Christine Goodwin-De Faria, Committee Members.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Melissa Blackburn, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0“A Multi-Method Examination of the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model Among Adolescents: Testing the Unique Role of Online (Dis)Connection”\u00a0on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Stephen Emrich, Chair; Danielle Sirianni Molnar, Supervisor; Michael Ashton, External Examiner (Professor, Department of Psychology, Brock University); Hannah Dyer, Graduate Program Director; and Dawn Zinga and Naomi Andrews, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Sustainability thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Savannah Stuart, a Master of Sustainability candidate, will defend the thesis\u00a0“Exploring People-Place Relationships Through Place Attachment and Wellbeing in the Context of the Abrupt Changes Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic”\u00a0on Wednesday, Aug. 31 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Ryan Plummer, Supervisor;\u00a0Lindsay McGunn, External Examiner\u00a0(Professor of Psychology, Vancouver Island University);\u00a0Marilyne Jollineau,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Garrett Hutson and Gillian Dale, Committee Members.<\/p>\n PhD in Education thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Min Huang, a PhD in Educational Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cMobile Learning Activities for Students\u2019 English Learning Engagement in China\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 1\u00a0from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n The examination committee members are Brian Roy, Chair; Diane Collier, Supervisor; Jia Li, External Examiner (University of Ontario Institute of Technology); Thomas Farrell, Internal Examiner; and Kamini Jaipal-Jamini and Zuochen Zhang (University of Windsor), Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Aug. 29 and Friday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,40,55,41,38],"tags":[49,45,32,98,607,348,522,3335,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036"}],"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=80036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80039,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036\/revisions\/80039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}