Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Exams held via Zoom are by invitation only and are listed here for information.
Friday, 22 October 2021 - 9:00am - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Alireza Sarraf Shirazi
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Slurry Transport Modelling and Applications in the Gravel Packing Process
Friday, 22 October 2021 - 3:30pm
Navid Siami
Department: Sauder School of Business
Three Essays on Crisis Management Under Uncertainty: Drought, Climate Change, and Pandemic
Wednesday, 27 October 2021 - 9:00am
Joseph Allen Daniels
Department: Geography
Crowd Cash and the City: Understanding the Global (Re)Emergence of the Crowd as a Financial 'Actor' and its Reimagining of Urban Development Futures
Wednesday, 27 October 2021 - 10:00am
Lakshana Sreenivasan
Department: Experimental Medicine
Autocrine and Paracrine Signaling Contributes to Acquired Chemotherapeutic Resistance in Group 3 Medulloblastoma
Thursday, 28 October 2021 - 12:30pm
Kelsey Mahealani Copes-Gerbitz
Department: Forestry
Fire in a Dynamic Social-Ecological System: Legacies and Future of Fire in British Columbia, Canada
Friday, 29 October 2021 - 9:00am
David Christopher Macdonald
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays in the Economics of Crime
Friday, 29 October 2021 - 9:00am
Abrar Mohammed Turki
Department: Human Nutrition
Application of Novel Techniques to Devise Nutritional Therapies in Patients with Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1 and Phenylketonuria
Friday, 29 October 2021 - 12:30pm
Kelsey Mae Johnson
Department: Geography
Blood Work: Racial Economies of Plasma Extraction in the US South
Friday, 29 October 2021 - 12:30pm - Room 316 - Liu Institute for Global Issues 9476 NW Marine Drive
Balsher Singh Sidhu
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Indian Agriculture in a Changing Climate: a Statistical Analysis
Friday, 29 October 2021 - 12:30pm - Room D215 || Chemistry || 2036 Main Mall
Duane Hean
Department: Chemistry
Photofunctional Molecular Crystals
Friday, 29 October 2021 - 1:00pm
Yanan Shao
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Classification of Cancer in Ultrasound Medical Images and Histopathology
Monday, 1 November 2021 - 10:00am
Ali Shademani
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Magnetic Sponges for Localized and Controlled Drug Delivery with Drug Combination Therapy
Tuesday, 2 November 2021 - 2:00pm
Motasim Mohammed T Jawi
Department: Experimental Medicine
The Effect of Physical Activity on Resting Heart Rate and Arterial Atherosclerotic Markers in Patients with High Lipoprotein(a)
Friday, 5 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Corey James Snelgrove
Department: Political Science
Bound by Reconciliation? Social Criticism, Treaty, and Decolonization
Friday, 5 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Minjeong Park
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Using Item Response Tree Models for Studying Response Behaviors
Monday, 8 November 2021 - 9:00am
Gabriel Castillo
Department: Mining Engineering
Climate Risk and Adaptation Management in Mine Closure Planning in Mountainous Watersheds
Monday, 8 November 2021 - 1:00pm
Mohamed Mahmoud Bayoumi A Kamel
Department: Civil Engineering
Novel Statistical Insights into Cyclist Safety and Bike Ridership
Tuesday, 9 November 2021 - 9:00am - Room 1306a || Ponderosa Commons: Oak House (PCOH) || 2075 West Mall
Alexis Miguel Gonzalez Donoso
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Exploring in-Service Science Teachers' Assessment Literacy on Teaching with Models
Tuesday, 9 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Ketty Anyeko
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Lived Justice: Women's Senses of Justice, Reparations and Decision-Making After Wartime Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda
Wednesday, 10 November 2021 - 10:00am
Louai Rahal
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Participatory Design in the Special Education Classroom: Designing Technology with Educators, for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Wednesday, 10 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Natasha Lesia-Ann Stecy-Hildebrandt
Department: Sociology
Care and the Corporation: How Organizational Contexts Shape the Forms and Consequences of Fathers' Caregiving
Wednesday, 10 November 2021 - 12:30pm - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Alondra Perla Renteria Ruiz
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Annular Displacement Flows in Primary Cementing of Horizontal and Irregular Wellbores
Friday, 12 November 2021 - 9:00am
Rushdi Taleb Mah'D Alsaleh
Department: Civil Engineering
Development of a Multi-Agent Based Simulation Model for Cyclist-Pedestrian Interactions in Shared Spaces
Friday, 12 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Kathleen Allyson Hare
Department: Language and Literacy Education
'All the Feels' - Exploring Educators' Embodied Experiences of Sexual Education
Monday, 15 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Corey Kelly
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Toward an Automated Multimodal Breast Ultrasound Imaging System
Tuesday, 16 November 2021 - 10:00am
Udit Dalwadi
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biochemical and Structural Characterization of the Elongator, Tintin, and PI3K gamma Complexes
Friday, 19 November 2021 - 12:30pm
Shannon Lim
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Shedding Light on the Brain- Characterizing Functional Brain Activation During Simple and Complex Walking After Stroke
Friday, 19 November 2021 - 4:00pm
Jessica Ann Pilsworth
Department: Medical Genetics
Adult-Type Granulosa Cell Tumours of the Ovary: A Foxl2-Centric Disease
Monday, 22 November 2021 - 9:00am
A.J. Fenning Lowik
Department: Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Gendered and Reproductive Becomings: Trans People, Reproductive Experiences and the BC Health Care System
Friday, 26 November 2021 - 9:00am
Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan
Department: Language and Literacy Education
English for Academic Purposes in Canada: Practitioners’ Assessment Practices and Construction of Assessment Literacy
Friday, 3 December 2021 - 9:00am
Davide Alonzo
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Marriage and Labor Market Matching
Friday, 3 December 2021 - 12:30pm
Anne Catherine Hales
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Towards a Genealogy of the Mentor in Early-Career Teacher Mentorship Programs
Monday, 6 December 2021 - 9:00am
Andrew Harry Ramsook
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Sex Differences in Voluntary Activation of the Diaphragm
Wednesday, 8 December 2021 - 2:00pm
Jehan Saleh Alamri
Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Clinical and Synaptosomal Studies of Cannabinoid Receptor 1 and Presynaptic Proteins in the Elderly
Thursday, 9 December 2021 - 1:00pm - Koerner Conference Centre 1 - DMCBH Koerner Labs, 2211 Wesbrook Mall
Rachel Alexandra Crockett
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Why so Hyperintense? Identifying Functional Networks Associated with Cognition and Mobility in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Thursday, 9 December 2021 - 1:00pm
Wansu Qiu
Department: Neuroscience
Perinatal Depression and Treatment Implications for Mother and Offspring: Lessons from an Animal Model
Monday, 13 December 2021 - 9:00am
Matthew Moses McDaniel
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
How do Community Mental Health Workers Maintain Wellness While Responding to the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis?