{"id":8345,"date":"2011-02-23T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2011-02-23T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:48:02","slug":"thesis-defences-%e2%80%94-feb-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/02\/thesis-defences-%e2%80%94-feb-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Feb. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PhD in Psychology \u2013 William Tays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Tays, PhD student in Psychology, will present his thesis defence on Thursday, March 3 at 2 pm in Plaza 600F.  The title of his thesis is \u201cElectrocortical Indices of Cognitive Control in Working Memory:  Exploring the Effects of Proactive Interference, Cognitive Load, and Aging.\u201d  Examining committee members are:  Bareket Falk, chair; Robert West, Iowa State University, external examiner; Jane Dywan, supervisor; Allan Adkin, internal examiner; Karen Arnell and Sid Segalowitz, committee members.  All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glynnis Fleming \u2014 Master of Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glynnis Fleming will present her thesis defence on Monday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. in WH 147. The title of the thesis is \u201cTeachers\u2019 Development and Negotiation of Meaning About Mathematics-for-Teaching Through the Use of Ontario Bansho Within Communities of Practice.\u201d External examiner: Marian Small, professor emerita, University of New Brunswick; supervisor: Coral Mitchell; committee members: Renee Kuchapski and Ralph Connelly; chair of the examining committee: Susan Drake. All are welcome to attend but seating is limited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science \u2014 Briar Komenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Briar Komenda (MSc Kinesiology) will defend her thesis on Friday, March 4 from 2 to 5 p.m. in WC204B. Thesis title: The Effect of a Stickhandling and Puck Control (SPC) Training Intervention on SPC Skills and Wrist Shot Performance Variables in Female College. Supervisor: Kelly Lockwood; committee members: Diane Mack and Jae Patterson; external examiner: James Lyons, McMaster University; chair: Gail Frost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts \u2014 Jarold Chinnick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jarold Chinnick (MA Leisure Studies) will defend his thesis on Wednesday, March 9 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. in WH147. Title: A Case Study of the Implementation of Experiential Education in Yukon Schools. Supervisor: Mary Breunig; committee members: Erin Sharpe and Bob Jickling; external examiner: Bob Henderson, McMaster University; chair: Tim O&#8217;Connell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis defences posted on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[28,32,3330,66,29,83,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345"}],"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=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}