Upcoming Exams

Final Doctoral Examinations are normally held in the Examination Rooms on the main floor of the Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road. Parking is available in the Rose Garden Parkade (underground), or outside the University Centre (previously the Faculty Club).

Examinations normally take 2 - 3 hours to complete. Exam room doors are locked once exams are in progress - Late entry is not permitted.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Jordan Scott Querido (School of Human Kinetics)
Hypoxia and Autonomic Control

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Farhana Begum (Anthropology)
Women's Reproductive Illnesses and Health Seeking in Bangladesh Village

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Maria Cristina Delgado Vintimilla (Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education)
Aporetic Openings in Living Well With Others: The Teacher as a Thinking Subject

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Faustino Hilario Chi (Forestry)
Long-term changes in mangrove forests and cays following hurricanes at Turneffe Islands, Belize

Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Daniel Chaskes (English)
Beyond Fragmentation: Donald Barthelme and Writing as Political Act

Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 203

Felipe Herrera (Chemistry)
Quantum control of binary and many-body interactions in ultracold molecular gases

Friday, May 25, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Isabeau Anisa Iqbal (Educational Studies)
Faculty Members' Professional Growth in Teaching Through the Summative Peer Review of Teaching and Other Departmental Practices

Friday, May 25, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Timal Saman Kannangara (Neuroscience)
The Role of the NMDA Receptor Subunit GluN2A in Synaptic Structural Plasticity in the Mouse Dentate Gyrus

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:00 PM - Eye Care Centre Auditorium (2550 Willow Street)

Megan Elizabeth Himmel (Experimental Medicine)
Phenotypic and Fucntional Characterization of T Cells and Foxp3+ T Regulation Cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Steps Towards T Regulatory Cell Therapy in Mucosal Disease

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Chun-Yip Hon (School of Population and Public Health)
Healthcare Workers and Antineoplastic Drugs: Evaluating the Risks and Identifying Determinants of Exposure

Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Simon Chen (Neuroscience)
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Sensory-Driven Structural and Functional Plasticity in the Awake Developing Brain

Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 203

Kathrin Helga Stoll (Individual Interdisciplinary Graduate Program)
Fear of Childbirth Among Young Canadians

Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Michael Ryan Donaldson (Forestry)
Understanding the Consequences of Fisheries-Related Stressors on Adult Migrating Pacific Salmonoids

Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Lei Hua (Statistics)
Multivariate Extremal Dependence and Risk Measures

Monday, June 4, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Katherine Laura Pettem (Neuroscience)
New Synaptic Organizing Proteins and their Roles in Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Development

Monday, June 4, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Stephanie Amber Moore (Chemistry)
Synthesis and Characterization of Late Transition Metal Oligothiophene Complexes for Light Harvesting Applications

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Puwakkatiya Kankanamge Eranda Harinath (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Identification, Control and Optimization Strategies for Thermo-Mechanical Pulping (TMP) Processes

Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Elizabeth B.A. Nosen (Psychology)
Metacognition and Cravings During Smoking Cessation

Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Amy Tsz Yan Yeung (Microbiology and Immunology)
Complex Regulations of Swarming and Surfing Motilities in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Friday, June 8, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Farzad Moghimi (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Spectrum Sensing and Throughput Maximization in Cognitive Radio Networks

Friday, June 8, 2012 9:00 AM - Leon's Lounge

Cynthia Ann Starzyk (Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)
Simulating Surface Water-Groundwater Interaction in the Bertrand Creek Watershed, BC

Friday, June 8, 2012 12:30 PM - Leon's Lounge

Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Integration and Wireless Control Methods for Micromachined Shape-Memory-Alloy Actuators and their MEMS Applications

Friday, June 8, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Wing Kwan Ng (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communitcations Systems

Friday, June 8, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Roger Stanev (Philosophy)
The Epistemology and Ethics of Early Stopping Decisions in Randomized Controlled Trials

Monday, June 11, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Conan William Weeks (Physics and Astronomy)
A Study of Topological Insulators in Two and Three Dimensions

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Grant Bare (Chemistry)
Synthesis of Template-Assembled Nucleotide Quartets

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:00 PM - Room 203

Dawit Tesfamichael (Resources, Environment and Sustainability)
Assessment of the Red Sea Ecosystem with Emphasis on Fisheries

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Monique Joanne Charest (School of Audiology and Speech Sciences)
Lexical Activation Effects on Children's Sentence Production

Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Paul Robert Bichler (Chemistry)
Synthesis and Applications of Alkyl and Aryl Vinyl Sulfides and Sidearm Substituted Bisoxazolines

Friday, June 15, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

David Christopher Steinberg (Mathematics)
Curve-Counting Invariants and Crepant Resolutions of Calabi-Yan Threefols

Monday, June 18, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Jennifer Megan Gray (Neuroscience)
Endocrine Adaptation to Repeated Psychological Stress in the Adult Male Rat Depends on Central Activation of Vasopressin V1a Receptors

Monday, June 18, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Ryan William Anderson (Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Characterization of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

Monday, June 18, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Hannah Milena Caroline Schreier (Psychology)
Physiological Benefits of Volunteering Among Young Adults and Adolescents

Monday, June 18, 2012 12:30 PM - Leon's Lounge

Kaveh Shafiee (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Application-Based Packet Routing in Vehicular Networks

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:00 PM - Room 203

Pooja Viswanathan (Computer Science)
Navigation And Obstacle Avoidance Help (NOAH) for Elderly Wheelchair Users with Cognitive and Visual Impairment in Long-Term Care

Friday, June 22, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Ali Shahidi Zandi (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Scalp EEG Quantitative Analysis: Automated Real-Time Detection and Prediction of Epileptic Seizures

Monday, June 25, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Matthew Byron Ruby (Psychology)
Compassion and Convention: Differential Approaches to the Ommnivore's Dilemma

Monday, June 25, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Shun Wang (Economics)
Social Capital, Institutions, and Economic Development in China

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 203

Patricia Anne Fraser (Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education)
Postcards to the Beloved: An Inquiry Into Our Shared Worldliness Through the Practice of a Story Mentor

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Andrea Elizabeth Alice Stephens (Zoology)
Distributions and interactions of insect herbivores as influences on host plant density and performance

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Ren-Hung Wu (Sociology)
Home Away From Home: An Ethnographic Study of the Taiwanese Canadians in Vancouver, with a Focus on the Early Stage from the 1960s to the 1980s

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Brett Theodore van Poorten (Zoology)
Effects of Interspecific Competition on Recruitment Processes for Rainbow Trout in Simple Two-Species Lakes

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Frank Khan Huynh (Physiology)
Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism by Hepatic Leptin Signalling

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:30 PM - Leon's Lounge

Suretha Swart (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
Intertwining to Fit In: A Grounded Theory Study of Caregivers with School-Aged Children with FASD

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 203

Chia-yu Angel Yu (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Structural analysis of an enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli metalloprotease effector

Thursday, June 28, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Mineko Wada (School of Rehabilitation Sciences)
Balance in Everyday Life: Conceptions of Men and Women in Dual-income Couples with Young Children

Friday, June 29, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 200

Norhayani Othman (Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Rheology and Processing Study of Poly(lactides) and their Enantiomeric Copolymers and Blends

Friday, June 29, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Keivan Ronasi (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Wireles Mesh Networks

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 9:00 AM - Eye Care Centre Auditorium (2550 Willow Street)

Alicia Nicole McMurchy (Experimental Medicine)
The Role of Human Forkhead Box P3 in CD4+T Cell Subsets

Thursday, July 5, 2012 9:00 AM - Room 10206 at the Diamond Health Care Centre (10th floor, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9

Scott Russel Garrison (Experimental Medicine)
An Exploration of New Therapeutic Options for Nocturnal Leg Cramps

Thursday, July 5, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Angshul Majumdar (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
A Sparsity Based Approach Towards Fast MRI Acquisition

Friday, July 6, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Labros George Meimetis (Chemistry)
Function oriented synthesis of bioactive marine natural products and their pharmacophore analogues

Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Wendy Anne Boivin (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
Extracellular Granzyme B and Pathophysiological Implications

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:30 PM - Room 200

Kirsten FitzGerald Hodge (Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)
Field and Experimental Constraints on the Deformation and Breakup of Injected Magma

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