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Judges
Lesley Heighway, B.A, B.Ed., M.B.A.
President & CEO, Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation
Andrea Hicks, B.Sc., M.Sc. ‘06
Ecological Project Coordinator, Cambium Inc.
AN 80,000 WORD THESIS WOULD
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Bill Kimball, B.A. ‘75
Artistic Producer, Public Energy
Thomas Miller, B.Sc. (Hon) ‘82, M.D., M.Sc., C.C.F.P., C.C.P.E.
Emergency Department Physician, Peterborough Regional Health Centre
Prizes
President's First Prize: $500
School of Graduate Studies Runner-up Prize: $250
The Provost's People's Choice Prize: $250
Event sponsors
This event is generously sponsored by the External Relations and
Advancement, the School of Graduate Studies, the Academic Skills Centre,
the Trent Graduate Students’ Association, Traill College, the Office of the
President, and the Office of the Provost
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
7pm
The Venue
Introductory Remarks
Dr. Michael Eamon, Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College and Director of
Continuing Education
Intermission
3 Minute Thesis Presentations
Introduction of Judging Panel
Dr. Nona Robinson, Associate Vice-President, Students
Melanie Prentice (Environmental and Life Sciences), Time to Adapt: Clock
Genes, Climate Change & Canada Lynx
3 Minute Thesis Presentations
Elizabeth Ramsay (Public Texts), Exploring the Triple Hecate Myth: A Woman’s
Place in Shakespearean Drama
Shegufta Shetranjiwalla (Environmental and Life Sciences), Transforming
Plastics into Green Materials: Replacing Crude Oil with Vegetable Oil
Keren Fox (Sustainability Studies), Governance of Hybrid Organizations and
Regional Impact: The Eilat Eilot Renewable Energy Initiative
Sean Carleton (Canadian & Indigenous Studies), Rethinking the Relationship
between Public Schools and Colonialism in British Columbia, 1872 - 1925
Meredith Purcell (Environmental and Life Sciences), Moose in a Changing
Climate
Rathika Balthasar (Environmental and Life Sciences), Monitoring Mercury
Movements: Unique Chemical Techniques for Tracing Pollution Sources
Yong Xiang Shi (Environmental and Life Sciences), Vanadium Speciation in
Churchill Estuary Environment
Carly Bumbacco (Psychology), Help Wanted: Attachment and Support
Utilization Among University Students
Joshuah Lockett (Anthropology), Sacred Space, Authority, and Ancestors:
Middle Formative (900-600 BC) Elite Maya Burial and Jade Cache from
Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize
Gordon Halsey (Sustainability Studies), Motivating Holistic Health and Social
Services: From Clinical to Compassionate
Joshua Noiseux (Theory, Culture, and Politics), Becoming Insurgent: Agency
and Antagonism in 21st Century War
Rebecca Martin (Psychology), Don’t Ignore Them, Don’t Exaggerate Them:
Taking a Mindful Approach to Setbacks
James Forrester (Public Texts), Charles Dickens Comes to Lakefield
Ashley Neale (History), Alone in Power: The Foreign Policy of President Richard
Nixon
Anna Rooke (Environmental and Life Sciences), In Hot Water: Can Fish
Physiology Adapt to a Warming Climate?
Joy Tian (Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods), Beyond Precipitation:
The Road of Weather Derivatives to China
People’s Choice Award: Audience Vote
Martin Romero-Sanchez (Environmental and Life Sciences), Modelling the
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Forest Carbon in a Semi-Deciduous Tropical
Forest using Remote Sensing Data
Eyitayo Aloh (Public Texts), Engaging the Unwritten text: Orality, Popular
Culture and the Social Engineering Process in Post colonial Nigeria
Intermission
Presentation of Prizes
Dr. Elaine Scharfe, Interim Vice-Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies