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