On Monday June 24th, 2013, Zeynep Ozlem Cankaya successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled The Role of Number Naming Systems and Numeracy Experiences in the Development of Early Numeracy Knowledge.
The Chair for her defense was Dr. Andre Loiselle. Her External Examiner was Dr. Vandermass-Peeler from Elon University and her Internal External was Dr. Robert Coplan. The members of Ozlem’s Committee were Dr. Jo-Anne LeFevre, Dr. Ida Toivonen and Dr. Deepthi Kamawar.
We wanted to congratulate Ozlem on presenting such a strong oral defense and also to congratulate her on her new position as a Research Scientist at the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research in Edmonton.