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.
Monday, 27 May 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Botao Wu
Department: Language and Literacy Education
Poetic Inquiry: My Journey in Language
Tuesday, 28 May 2019 - 12:30pm - 5106, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Kohen Witt Bauer
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Chromium Isotopes, Iron Speciation, and the Evolution of Earth's Surface Chemistry Through Time
Thursday, 30 May 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Jessica Leanne Pow
Department: Psychology
We Cope Together: Predictors and Consequences of Social Support Mobilization
Friday, 31 May 2019 - 12:30pm - 1888, Jim Pattison Pavillion South of Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Ave, Vancouver
Samantha Burugu
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Immune Biomarkers in Breast Cancer Pathology Specimens: Characterization and Clinical Implications
Friday, 31 May 2019 - 1:30pm - 4192, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Bo Chang
Department: Statistics
Vine Copulas: Dependence Structure Learning, Diagnostics, and Applications to Regression Analysis
Tuesday, 4 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Mahdiar Khosravi
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Developing Pyrometric and Chemiluminescence Optical Diagnostics for Investigation of Modern Alternative CI Engine Combustion Strategies
Thursday, 6 June 2019 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Amanda Renee Dancsok
Department: MD/PhD Program
The Immune Microenvironment of Sarcomas: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Infiltrating Immune Cells and Checkpoint Biomarkers in Musculoskeletal Tumors
Friday, 7 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Saeed Nazari
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Dialogue for Teacher Professional Development
Friday, 7 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Elena Choquette
Department: Political Science
The Making of a 'Peaceable Kingdom': Land, Peopling, and Progress in an Expanding Canada
Monday, 10 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Yoel Kornreich
Department: Political Science
The Politics of Consultative Authoritarianism: Bureaucratic Competition, Deliberation and Responsiveness in China
Monday, 10 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Qiang Zou
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Variational Direct Modeling for Computer-Aided Design
Monday, 10 June 2019 - 12:30pm - 1221, Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall
Cora Skaien
Department: Forestry
Spatial Heterogeneity in Natural Selection and Local Adaptation to Ungulate Herbivory in Plectritis Congesta
Tuesday, 11 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Soojin Lee
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Electrical Vestibular Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease Treatment
Tuesday, 11 June 2019 - 9:00am - 350, HR MacMillan, 2357 Main Mall
Heather Whittaker Neave
Department: Applied Animal Biology
Individual Variability in the Feeding Behaviour of Dairy Calves and Goats
Tuesday, 11 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 203
Bolette Skjodt Rafn
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Surveillance and Rehabilitation for Breast Cancer-Related Upper-Body Issues
Thursday, 13 June 2019 - 12:30pm - 8th Floor Meeting Room, BC Cancer Research Centre, 675 West 10th Ave, Vancouver, V5Z 1L3
Maryam Ghaedi
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Development and Heterogeneity of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Mouse Lungs
Thursday, 13 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Jiyoung Suh
Department: Asian Studies
Vernacular Music and Female Musicians in Late Choson Korea, 1700-1896
Thursday, 13 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Kaylyn Kyra Leung
Department: Chemistry
Electrodeposited DNA Monolayers on Gold: Creation, Evaluation and Optimization
Thursday, 13 June 2019 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Vilbert Vabi Vamuloh
Department: Forestry
Smallholders and Contract Farming at Crossroads: The Case of the Oil Palm Sector of Ghana
Friday, 14 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Evelyn Sun
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
The Regulation and Characterization of Surfing Motility in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Monday, 17 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 203
Thea Miller Franke
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
An Exploration of the Mobility Experiences of Active Older Adults with Low Income
Monday, 17 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Julia Nogueira Varela
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Novel Approaches for Treating and Preventing Malaria
Monday, 17 June 2019 - 9:00am - 3402 A,B,C - Centre for Brain Health, 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A1
Elisa Marie York
Department: Neuroscience
Metabolic Reprogramming Supports Microglial Survival and Immune Function
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 203
Allison Mairi Ezzat
Department: Population and Public Health
Physical Activity and Other Health-Related Outcomes After Knee Injury in Youth and Young Adults
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 - 12:00pm - 100, Old Auditorium, 6344 Memorial Rd, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2
Jason Abram Klippenstein
Department: Music
Chunhyang-Ga as Pansori Opera: A Guide for Performing Pansori with Classically-Trained Singers Outside of Korea
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Ian Cromwell
Department: Population and Public Health
Development and Application of a Whole Disease Model for Oral Cancer to Inform Health Technology Management
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Hamad Hamoud Almohamadi
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
CH4 Oxidation Catalysts Evaluated in a Monolith Reactor
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Amy Schneeberg
Department: Population and Public Health
Measuring the Long Term Impact of Childhood Injury: A Longitudinal Study of Health Related Quality of Life
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Thilo Speckmann
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
The Role of NPAS4 and RGS2 in the Regulation of Pancreatic B-Cell Function
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 - 12:30pm - 188 - Brimacombe 2355 E Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Anffany Chen
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Realizing High-Energy Physics in Topological Semimetals
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 - 3:00pm - Seminar Room, Eye Care Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, 2550 Willow St., Vancouver, V5Z 3N9
Ying Ju Ruanne Vent-Schmidt
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Opposing Effects of Valproic Acid Treatment Mediated by Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Activity in Four Transgenic X. Laevis Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa
Thursday, 20 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Amy Isabel Smith-Dijak
Department: Neuroscience
Homeostatic Plasticity in Neuronal Cultures from the YAC128 Huntington Disease Model Mouse
Thursday, 20 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Harlan Campbell
Department: Statistics
If Journals Embraced Conditional Equivalence Testing, Would Research be Better?
Thursday, 20 June 2019 - 12:30pm - 301, Hennings, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1
Tianyu Liu
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Dirac Materials and the Response to Elastic Lattice Deformation
Thursday, 20 June 2019 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Oliver Leigh
Department: Mathematics
Enumertive Problems in Algebraic Geometry Motivated from Physics
Friday, 21 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Rm 200, Chan Gunn Pavillion, 2553 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Elizabeth Jean Buckler
Department: Kinesiology
Assessment and Training of Physical Literacy in Early Childhood Educators
Monday, 24 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Justin Mark Tyndall
Department: Sauder School of Business
Urban Labour Markets and Transportation
Monday, 24 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 203
Weiye Wang
Department: Forestry
Changes in the Livelihoods of People in Protected Areas in China During a Period of Rapid Transition
Monday, 24 June 2019 - 12:30pm - D203, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, 4500 Oak St., V6H 3N1
Mina Park
Department: Population and Public Health
The Impact of Maternal Depression and Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure on Child Development: Considerations of Internal and External Contextual Factors
Tuesday, 25 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Marcelina Piotrowski
Department: Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education
Subjectivity in the Folds: Education, Media Practices, and Environmental Activism Amongst More-Than-Human Pleats
Tuesday, 25 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Joanne Lee Park
Department: Psychology
The Relations Among Stress, Executive Functions, and Harsh Parenting in Mothers
Wednesday, 26 June 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Johannes Micha Heim
Department: Linguistics
Commitment and Engagement: The Role of Intonation in Deriving Speech Acts
Wednesday, 26 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
David Andrew Reid
Department: Geography
Linking Sediment Supply, Channel Morphology, and Aquatic Habitat in Forested, Gravel-Bed Streams: Spatial and Temporal Considerations
Wednesday, 26 June 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Jolande Fooken
Department: Neuroscience
Eye Movements as Indicators of Visual and Cognitive Processing
Tuesday, 2 July 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Karina Younk
Department: Educational Studies
Using Activity Theory and Expansive Learning to Co-Construct Understandings of Competencies in K-12 Education in British Columbia
Wednesday, 3 July 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Youssef Ben Bouchta
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Monte Carlo Modelling of Peripheral Dose and Risk of Secondary Malignancy in Flattening-Filter-Free and 10 MV Photon Beams for Paediatric Radiotherapy
Thursday, 4 July 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jiri Knesl
Department: Sauder School of Business
Essays on Labor and Technology in Asset Pricing
Friday, 5 July 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Natalia Balyasnikova
Department: Language and Literacy Education
Exchanging Stories: A Narrative Ethnography of Immigrant Seniors' English Language Learning Experiences
Monday, 8 July 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Wei Zhao
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Personalized Dosimetry Protocol for the Optimization of Lutetium-177 Dotatate Radionuclide Therapy
Tuesday, 16 July 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Amin Nouri Khorasani
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Structure-Property Modeling and Testing of Transport Layers for PEM Fuel Cells and Water Electrolysis Cells
Thursday, 25 July 2019 - 9:00am - Room 200
Stephanie Miranda Nadine Glegg
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Strengthening Networks to Improve Knowledge Translation in Pediatric Healthcare
Tuesday, 30 July 2019 - 9:00am - 15th floor meeting room, BC Cancer Research Centre, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver BC
Artem Babaian
Department: Medical Genetics
Endogenous Retroviruses Drive Transcriptional Innovation in Human Cancer
Wednesday, 7 August 2019 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Jee-Yeon Song
Department: Asian Studies
Agency and Oppression in Choson Religious Women's Lives: An Analysis of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Catholic Virgins in Korea