Doctoral Examinations & Schedule
The Final Oral Examination (FOE) is the capstone experience of your doctoral studies. General information about the FOE is outlined in the SGS Calendar. The Final Oral Examination schedule (see calendar below) lists current thesis defenses, and is updated periodically.
Additionally, you may find helpful the Guidelines for the Doctoral Final Oral Examination (FOE), a document that outlines the responsibilities of the graduate unit, SGS, the Examination Committee, and the Chair of the Committee in the planning and conduct of a Final Oral Examination. Faculty and Staff can access additional resources on the SGS Final Examinations webpage.
Academic fees for continuously registered Ph.D. candidates in the final year of the program are pro-rated over the 12–month academic year, based on the date of the final approved thesis submission to SGS. Incidental fees are charged on a sessional (term) basis. More information on the pro-rated fees and schedules can be found in Graduate Fees and on the Student Accounts website under Current Fall–Winter Fee & Refund Schedules.
In-Person Examinations at the School of Graduate Studies
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- Exam rooms are available for blocks of up to three (3) hours between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM ET, Monday to Friday.
- Exam rooms have maximum capacities as indicated on the Book a Meeting Room website.
- All participants should bring their laptop or tablet with them; the computer, camera, and microphone in the room can be used to provide a full room view for remote participants. The computer is currently configured for anyone to sign into their Zoom or Microsoft Teams account. Teleconference is also available for a maximum of two participants.
- All signature files and forms will be administered electronically.
- Please avoid the use of perfume, cologne, hairspray and other scented products when you visit the School of Graduate Studies. Refer to the University’s Guidelines on the Use of Perfumes and Scented Products.
Doctoral Examination Schedule
Exam Date | Student Name | Exam Information (Thesis, Supervisor(s), Graduate Unit) |
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Feb 3 | Name: Lindsay Valve |
RESEARCH AS PUBLIC PEDAGOGY: EXPLORING THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF DOING RESEARCH Supervisor(s): Prof. Kathleen Marie Gallagher Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning |
Feb 3 | Name: Marise Carlse |
Revisioning Belonging for Early Career Teachers in Secondary Schools Supervisor(s): Prof. Francine Menashy Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
Feb 3 | Name: Sameen Ahmed |
Dissecting the Functions of lncRNA Genes Transcribed From tRNA Gene Loci Supervisor(s): Prof. Philipp Maass Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
Feb 3 | Name: Mehakpreet Kaur Thind |
Immune Dysregulation in a Murine Model of Severe Malnutrition Supervisor(s): Prof. Robert Bandsma Graduate Unit: Department of Nutritional Sciences |
Feb 4 | Name: Allison Elizabeth Tolgyesi |
Characterization of the Mechanical Impact of Focal and Systemic Cancer Treatments on Healthy and Metastatically Involved Vertebral Bone Supervisor(s): Prof. Cari Whyne Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
Feb 5 | Name: Weiqing Fang |
Adhesion Properties and Machine Learning Modeling of Multilayer Thermoplastic Composites Supervisor(s): Prof. Hani Naguib Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
Feb 5 | Name: Martynas Jonas Sirvinskas |
The Preparation of Novel Organoboranes and Mastering the Four Elements of Peptide Chemistry: Discovery, Synthesis, Physiochemical Analysis and Structural Control Supervisor(s): Prof. Andrei Yudin Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry |
Feb 6 | Name: Ethan Kyle Lee |
Evaluating Allostery Involving Flexible and Intrin Intrinsically Disordered Regions Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations Supervisor(s): Prof. Sarah Rauscher Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry |
Feb 6 | Name: Katherine Hilary Walton |
Investigating the Potential Effects of Social Identity on the Phonetic Competence of French Immersion and Core French Learners Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeffrey Steele Graduate Unit: Department of French |
Feb 6 | Name: Kathryn Jane McTavish |
Pseudomonas syringae modulation of virulence and host immunity through modulation and diversification of type III secreted effectors Supervisor(s): Prof. David Guttman Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
Feb 7 | Name: Anastasia M Turnbull |
The Diasporic Chinese and Tibetan Communities of Calcutta and the Himalayas: Exploring Mixed-race Identity Through Arts-informed Intergenerational Life History Supervisor(s): Prof. Reva Joshee Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education |
Feb 7 | Name: Elyse Katherine Watkins |
Skills in Focus: A Case Study of Ontario’s K-12 Learning Priorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through an Equity Lens Supervisor(s): Prof. Carol Campbell Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
Feb 7 | Name: Roham Dorakhan |
CO Electroreduction to Hydrocarbons: Mechanistic Investigations and Catalyst Design Supervisor(s): Prof. Edward Sargent Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
Feb 10 | Name: Virginia Kanyogonya |
Examining how meaningful employment is understood by Employment Ontario Second Career participants Supervisor(s): Prof. Kiran Mirchandani Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
Feb 10 | Name: Michael Nathan Koslowski |
Beyond the Binary: Deconstructing a Monolingual vs. Multilingual Opposition in English Language Teaching Supervisor(s): Prof. Enrica Piccardo Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning |
Feb 10 | Name: Kyle Waller Bower |
The Electrostatic Problem for Piecewise Constant Conductivities in Two Dimensions: Numerical Methods and Optimal Regularity Supervisor(s): Prof. Adam Stinchcombe, Prof. Spyridon Alexakis Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics |
Feb 11 | Name: Mengqi Wang |
A Smart Gate Driver IC with Ageing Detection and Dynamic Gate Drive for Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs Supervisor(s): Prof. Wai Tung Ng Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
Feb 11 | Name: Deanna Del Vecchio |
Mapping Participatory Photography in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Supervisor(s): Prof. Eve Tuck Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education |
Feb 12 | Name: Natalia Bittencourt Otto |
Between Survival and Sacrifice: Narratives of Criminalized Girls in Brazils War on Drugs Supervisor(s): Prof. Candace Kruttschnitt Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology |
Feb 13 | Name: Gabriel Cavalli |
How Scientific Knowledge Production is Changing Organizationally, Technologically, and Globally Supervisor(s): Prof. Anita McGahan Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management |
Feb 13 | Name: Gabriel Cavalli |
How Scientific Knowledge Production is Changing Organizationally, Technologically, and Globally Supervisor(s): Prof. Anita McGahan Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management |
Feb 13 | Name: Justin Hubbard |
Predicting Freshwater Invasion Risks Under Current and Future Conditions Supervisor(s): Prof. Nicholas Mandrak, Prof. Andrew Drake Graduate Unit: Dept. of Physical & Environmental Sci (UTSC) |
Feb 13 | Name: Andrew Lavigne |
Topics in the Semantics of Colour Language Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Caie Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy |
Feb 13 | Name: Jason Edward Pagaduan |
“Weve been here”: Aging in a mall walkers club Supervisor(s): Prof. Shyon Baumann, Prof. Josee Johnston Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology |
Feb 13 | Name: Melissa Geng |
Targeting Mitochondrial Guanine Quadruplexes to Shift Heteroplasmy Therapeutically and Understanding the Downstream Mechanism of of Berberine-Induced Heteroplasmy Shift Supervisor(s): Prof. Neal John Sondheimer Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
Feb 14 | Name: Jialiang Zhu |
SINGING CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY: ANINTERPRETIVE GUIDE FOR STANDARD CHINESE ART SONG Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeff Packman Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
Feb 14 | Name: Jialiang Zhu |
SINGING CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY: ANINTERPRETIVE GUIDE FOR STANDARD CHINESE ART SONG Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeff Packman Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
Feb 14 | Name: Ioannis Xarchakos |
Streaming Video Queries Supervisor(s): Prof. Nick Koudas Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
Feb 14 | Name: Anastasia Lachine |
Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy,Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov Supervisor(s): Prof. Ann Komaromi Graduate Unit: Centre for Comparative Literature |
Feb 14 | Name: Jean-Christophe Bedard Rubin |
STATE, SOVEREIGNTY, AND NOT QUITE REVOLUTION The Formation of French-Canadian Constitutional Culture, 1840-1998 Supervisor(s): Prof. David Schneiderman Graduate Unit: Faculty of Law |
Feb 18 | Name: Cristina Allegranza |
From Policy to Practice: Educators’ Sensemaking and Implementation of Assessment and Evaluation Supervisor(s): Prof. Nina Bascia Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
Feb 19 | Name: Michael Francis Colacci |
Evaluation of Biases That Challenge the Implimenta tion and Use of Machine Learning Clinical Decision Support Tools Supervisor(s): Prof. Muhammad Mamdani Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
Feb 20 | Name: Pakeezah Saadat |
Understanding Clinical Outcomes in Osteoarthritis Research: Patient Preferences, Minimal Important Changes, and Assay Sensitivity of Patient-Reported Measures. Supervisor(s): Prof. Peter Juni, Prof. Bruno Cezar Roza da Costa Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
Feb 20 | Name: Eduardo Antonio Ramirez Rodriguez |
Decoding the Signals that Shape Plant Cell Walls Supervisor(s): Prof. Heather McFarlane Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
Feb 21 | Name: Janay Eccles |
Senior Leaders’ Perspectives on Racialized Student Voice in Canadian Independent Schools Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Flessa Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
Feb 24 | Name: Hyun-Chul Kim |
The Infinite Loop of Cure: The Carceral Politics of the Resettlement Villages for Healed Lepers in South Korea Supervisor(s): Prof. Matthew Farish Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning |
Feb 24 | Name: Chang-Ho Lee |
Indirect Utility Elicitation in Rare Diseases with Myelofibrosis as a Case Study Supervisor(s): Prof. David Naimark, Prof. Nicholas Mitsakakis Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
Feb 26 | Name: Danyse Andrea Golick |
The Performance of Readerliness: Visual Cultures of Reading (and Not-Reading) in the Digital Age Supervisor(s): Prof. Naomi Morgenstern Graduate Unit: Department of English |
Feb 26 | Name: Sirma Damla User |
Characterization of Eph/Ephrin Mediated Cell Interactions During Zebrafish Gastrulation Supervisor(s): Prof. Ashley Bruce Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
Feb 27 | Name: Rebecca Tam |
Centrosome-organized plasma membrane infoldings linked to growth of a cortical actin domain Supervisor(s): Prof. Tony Harris Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
Feb 27 | Name: Ariana Yekyung Youm |
More Is Not Necessarily Better: Understanding the Multi-faceted Changes in Aging and Episodic Memory through a Cholinergic Lens Supervisor(s): Prof. Melanie Cohn, Prof. Katherine Duncan Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology |
Feb 28 | Name: Sara Sabour Rouh Aghdam |
Object Learning and Robust 3D Reconstruction Supervisor(s): Prof. David James Fleet, Prof. Geoffrey E Hinton Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
Feb 28 | Name: Liam Isaac Haas-Neill |
Molecular Dynamics of Protein Perturbations: Structure, Dynamics, and Function Supervisor(s): Prof. Sarah Rauscher Graduate Unit: Department of Physics |