{"id":92901,"date":"2024-05-17T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=92901"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:19:23","slug":"thesis-defences-may-21-to-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/05\/thesis-defences-may-21-to-may-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 May 21 to May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, May 21 and Friday, May 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Biotechnology thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frank Betancourt Montoya, a PhD in Biotechnology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cAspects of bioorganic chemistry &#8211; a). Development of caffeine-aptamer for coffee decaffeination; b). Study of 1,8-naphthalimide derivatives as fluorescent probes; c). Encapsulation of DNA by silica nanoparticles\u201d on Tuesday, May 21 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Sankey Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Wendy Ward, Chair; Tony Yan, Supervisor; Christopher Wilds, External Examiner (Concordia University); Thad Harroun, Internal Examiner; and Jeffrey Atkinson and Vincenzo De Luca, Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Sustainability thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn Carr, a Master of Sustainability candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Exploring the Role of Knowledge Mobilization in the Adoption of Integrated Pest Management for Grapevine Viruses&#8221; on Wednesday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to noon in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Julia Baird, Supervisor; Vivian Nguyen, External Examiner (Carleton University); Jessica Blythe, Graduate Program Director; and Amy Lemay and Sudarsana Poojari, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Psychology thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perla Matusof, a Master of Arts in Psychology candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Academic Competition in the School System: At What Cost?&#8221; on Wednesday, May 22 from 1 to 3 p.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Tony Volk, Supervisor; Michael Savage, External Examiner; Michael Busseri, Graduate Program Director; and Drew Dane and Michael Ashton, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, May 21 and Friday, May 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":[3404,546,296,2262,348,522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92901"}],"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=92901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92902,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92901\/revisions\/92902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}