Congratulations to Nicola Tonkin-Normore (PhD student with Dr. Duncan McIlroy) who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on October 3, 2011. Internal examiners were Dr. Suzanne Dufour of Biology and Dr. Ali Aksu of Earth Sciences.  The external examiner,
Dr. Murray Gringas (University of Alberta) paticipated through the use of web-conferencing software, webcams and teleconferencing.