A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dr. Makmillen uses rhetorical theory to understand texts arising from the contact between Indigenous peoples and settler societies in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. She shows how variously situated readers interpret and are persuaded by the language of treaties, legal judgments and other texts, and how this affects Indigenous claims to land and other rights. | Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Chen designed a new network protocol for the next generation wireless communication system. He also proposed scheduling algorithms and optimization methods to better support the multimedia transportation in wireless communication systems. His work improved the quality of service for mobile multimedia applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Shariff's dissertation focused on the evolutionary adaptiveness and social effects of emotion expressions, with a particular focus on the self-conscious emotions of pride and shame. His primary area of research, however, empirically addressed the relationship between religion and moral behaviour, with an eye towards uncovering the evolutionary and cultural origins of religious institutions. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Laetz's doctoral research explored the potential for understanding aesthetic experience by using ideas from biology. He rejected the widely held rule that biological categories must be used to frame our aesthetic encounters with nature. At the time of his untimely death, he was working on evolutionary explanations of artistic creativity. | Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Barnes studied the emplacement mechanisms and trace-element geochemical signatures of a swarm of lithium-rich, highly evolved magmatic dikes in the Northwest Territories. She also developed a method for lithium isotopic analysis of these rocks. Her thesis provides a cohesive assessment of pegmatite magma geochemical evolution. | Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Sciences (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Majzoub developed novel techniques to reduce power consumption in state-of-the-art Multiprocesser-System-on-Chip. His work is part of an effort to provide portable and tablet computers a longer battery lifetime when executing advanced video, image and audio processing applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Saab's work focused on compressed sensing - a new signal acquisition technique. He proposed and mathematically analyzed algorithms for the digitization of measurements acquired by this technique and algorithms for subsequently recovering the signal. Dr. Saab showed that the proposed approaches outperform the current state of the art methods | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Louidor studied various mathematical models of digital storage systems, with a view to rigorously estimating and computing the maximum amount of information they can hold. His research gives a better understanding of the line between what can and cannot be achieved, when designing such a system. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Semczyszyn developed a philosophical account of medical imaging technologies. Drawing on current medical practice and theories of pictorial representation she reconciles imaging as making visual representations of invisible properties with imaging as a way of seeing the body. | Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Nijjar examined workplace alienation experienced by healthcare support service workers and himself during the privatization of services at a care home. He demonstrated that educational initiatives designed to increase support workers' involvement in the care planning process significantly reduced workplace alienation and created new positive workplace identities for those involved. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Condotta studied the functional characteristics of a protein from the West Nile virus. West Nile virus causes a potentially fatal infection and is of great public health concern globally. Dr Condotta's work defined a novel molecular mechanism for regulation of this protein that will provide new targets for the development of antivirals. | Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Noureddin studied the effects of eye movements and blinks on EEG measurement, and developed new and useful methods for removing such artifacts without the need for electrodes attached to the face. The research has helped pave the way for real-time, usable EEG-based human interfaces such as a brain computer interface. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Ma developed an efficient way to generate porous nanomaterials in the solid state to study their potential application in the storage of hydrogen gas. This is one of the leading candidates as an energy carrier of the future due to its high energy content and clean burning nature. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Tang developed methods that provide universal multimedia access irrespective of the telecommunications, entertainment or broadcasting standards employed. His research provides efficient solutions that enable people using different digital phones, computers or digital television sets to share and display videos transmitted over the Internet or traditional wireline, wireless or cable systems. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Bains demonstrated that genetic variations in human reductase enzymes significantly decrease the metabolism of the highly used anti-cancer drugs, doxorubicin and daunorubicin. His findings may lead to the establishment of biomarkers, which would prevent life-threatening side-effects in cancer patients undergoing treatment with these drugs. | Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Sheng Zhong examined how the obsolescent industrial spaces in the inner city of Shanghai had been transformed into new spaces of cultural production and consumption. This research illuminates the processes as well as the roles of the state in China's breakneck pace of urban change. | Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Mitchell's dissertation explores the meaning of an education across a continuum of life experiences, from the earliest days of formal schooling to a life-long career as a Blues musician, illustrating the complex interplay between teaching and learning that arises in both intended and incidental contexts. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Fairhurst developed a computerized approach for assessing and controlling the risks of damaging scenic resources. His cumulative illumination technique maps the incidence angles from each viewpoint to each land plane, allowing planners and managers to more easily, reliably, and economically meet public expectations for the scenic landscape. | Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Robinson examined how communities organize against water privatization. Through a qualitative comparative study, she identified the importance of linking local and global issues for movement outcomes. Her research demonstrates that successful social movements are those that are connected globally and rooted in local communities. They are not necessarily transnational. | Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Aiken examined the causal relationship between identity, transitional justice, and post-conflict reconciliation in the deeply divided societies of South Africa and Northern Ireland. This research promises to help inform 'best practices' for future justice interventions to be used in post-conflict peacebuilding efforts. | Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Tayi designed a comprehensive mathematical model for retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into mammalian cells. He experimentally investigated the kinetic steps and validated the mathematical model. He subsequently used the model to optimize the experimental system for centrifugation-based delivery of retroviral vectors into mammalian cells. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Gaudet explored a potential therapy for peripheral nerve injury in rodents. He found that the molecule galectin-1 is crucial for development of connections in the spinal cord, and that the protein may impact nerve repair by recruiting immune cells. These results suggest that galectin-1 could benefit humans after peripheral nerve or spinal cord injury. | Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD) |
| 2010 | Using population-based health data from BC Ministry of Health, Dr. De Vera conducted pharmacoepidemiologic studies of statins in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis. Applying state-of-the-art methods, she demonstrated statins cardioprotective effects in preventing heart attacks. She also showed that discontinuation of statins adversely affected clinical and mortality outcomes. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Weber worked toward pushing back boundaries limiting the amount of information obtainable by the interaction of light and matter by using evolutionary computing. The information obtained was in turn used to better understand non-gas matter, known as the condensed phase, and the effect of such phases on individual molecules. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Liu studied the function of a newly identified inflammatory gene and showed how it promotes cell survival during viral infection as well as under cell stress conditions. The finding may improve our understanding of virus-host interaction and the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis. | Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PhD) |