Student Appreciation Day (Orillia)

Event Date: 
Friday, October 8, 2021 - 12:00am to 11:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Virtual
Event Contact Name: 
Taylor Smith
Event Contact E-mail: 

A Kinda Corny Event, happening Friday, October 8th. A prize table, pie-making, a fall design challenge, and a game night show are all happening in honour of Student Appreciation Day.

Happy Student Appreciation Day, Thunderwolves! Student Appreciation Day is a day to celebrate all the hard work you do as students and enjoy some prizes, games, and events.

This Student Appreciation Day, follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter @lakeheadlifeor to participate in our prize table, where many exciting prizes are being given away. As well, you can participate in our Social Media Design Challenge, and get some well-wishes from staff and faculty.

Later in the day, make sure you stop by for Pie Baking with LUSU at 4 pm, and Game Show Night at 6 pm, both over Zoom! The links to register for these events can be found in our social media bios.

Lakehead University’s 56th Convocation - Orillia Campus and Lakehead Georgian

Event Date: 
Saturday, June 5, 2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Nikki McCourt
Event Contact E-mail: 

The main ceremony will include traditional elements of Convocation including an Address from the President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, Conferral of this year’s Honorary Degree recipients and Fellows of the University, along with the Orillia Civitas Award recipient.

Watch the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured. 

Computer Science Department Thesis Defense - Arunim Garg

Event Date: 
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Rachael Wang
Event Contact E-mail: 

Please join the Computer Science Department for the upcoming thesis defense:

Presenter: Arunim Garg

Thesis title: Using data analytics to improve health human resource planning in Ontario, Canada

Abstract: Health human resource planning is an essential component of any healthcare system. Having the right number of physicians, with the right skills in the right place is important to ensuring that a population has the appropriate healthcare resources. Family physicians in Canada provide all of the primary care to the population and deliver a broad range of services to their patients. Previous research has shown that rural family physicians often work to a much broader extent of their scope of practice than their urban colleagues. For example, in Ontario, Canada, a greater number of these rural generalist physicians typically practice in emergency departments, provide inpatient hospital care and obstetrical services than urban family physicians. Although previous studies offer evidence about family physicians and their scope of practice, they often suffer from low survey response rates and recall bias in estimating the number of services and the time spent doing these activities. In this research, I use ICES Physician Database which contains physician demographic information, billing specialty, and their full-time equivalent status, and Ontario Health Insurance Plan database which contains billing codes submitted by all physicians across Ontario for services provided to patients in the year of 2017. I analyze these datasets to understand the disparity of physician services in northern and southern Ontario and furthermore machine learning is used to conduct predictive analyses using the above-mentioned datasets.

I use machine learning to find the most important features for the prediction of family physicians based on their practice and the prediction of family physicians’ rurality and practice2 location. Understanding the factors that are most important in family physicians’ practice, and their location of work will help extract data points that can be directly used in the allocation models to achieve better health human resource planning, since the policymakers would be able to focus on the relevant factors that are part of the insights gathered from this research. I also perform a systematic literature review for the investigation of various machine learning techniques used for numerous medical applications which are published in highly reputable venues in recent years. I found that machine learning techniques like random forests, Naive Bayes, support vector machines, and k-nearest neighbours are the most common and effective machine learning techniques being used for tabular medical datasets for various tasks. I employ these machine learning techniques on family physician and billing datasets to get essential and new insights in this field. After conducting the review, it was established that while machine learning was preferred for tabular data, deep learning was solely used for image and textual data.

Committee Members:
Dr. Salimur Choudhury (supervisor, committee chair), Dr. Vijay Mago (co-supervisor), Dr. Garima Bajwa, Dr. Michael S. Dohan (Business Administration)

Please contact grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca for the Zoom link.
Everyone is welcome.

Department of Biology MSc Thesis Proposal - Mark Schutte

Event Date: 
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 9:30am to 11:00am EDT
Event Location: 
Zoom
Event Contact Name: 
Heather Suslyk
Event Contact E-mail: 

Title: "The efficacy of eRNA and eDNA in determining the presence or absence of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Northern Ontario streams, and for the prediction of abundance and biomass"

Supervisory Committee:
Dr. Rob Mackereth (Supervisor)
Dr. Michael Rennie (Co-Supervisor)
Dr. Ashley Thomson

Please contact biology@lakeheadu.ca for the meeting ID and password. All are welcome to attend.

Department of Biology MSc Thesis Defence - Nancy Cummings

Event Date: 
Friday, May 28, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm EDT
Event Location: 
Zoom
Event Contact Name: 
Heather Suslyk
Event Contact E-mail: 

Title: “Efficacy of a multimolecular extraction from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue”

Supervisory Committee:
Dr. Carney Matheson (supervisor)
Dr. Mike Rennie
Dr. Wely Floriano
Dr. Michael Campbell (external examiner)

All are welcome to attend. Please contact biology@lakeheadu.ca for meeting ID and password.

Lakehead University 56th Convocation - Thunder Bay Campus

Event Date: 
Saturday, May 29, 2021 - 11:00am to 2:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Nikki McCourt
Event Contact E-mail: 

The Main Ceremonies will include traditional elements of Convocation including an Address from the President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, Conferral of this year’s Honorary Degree recipients and Fellows of the University.

Watch the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured

Lakehead University 56th Convocation Faculty Specific Ceremonies – Faculty of Education

Event Date: 
Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Nikki McCourt
Event Contact E-mail: 

The Faculty Specific Ceremonies will include remarks from the Faculty Dean and the President & Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, a student speaker, and the Conferral of Graduates and Medal recipients, followed by Chancellor Lyn McLeod’s remarks.

Watch the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured

Lakehead University 56th Convocation Faculty Specific Ceremonies – Faculty of Business Administration

Event Date: 
Friday, June 11, 2021 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Nikki McCourt
Event Contact E-mail: 

The Faculty Specific Ceremonies will include remarks from the Faculty Dean and the President & Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, a student speaker, and the Conferral of Graduates and Medal recipients, followed by Chancellor Lyn McLeod’s remarks.

Watch the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured

Lakehead University 56th Convocation Faculty Specific Ceremonies – Faculty of Engineering

Event Date: 
Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Nikki McCourt
Event Contact E-mail: 

The Faculty Specific Ceremonies will include remarks from the Faculty Dean and the President & Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, a student speaker, and the Conferral of Graduates and Medal recipients, followed by Chancellor Lyn McLeod’s remarks.

Watch the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured

Lakehead University 56th Convocation Faculty Specific Ceremonies – Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities

Event Date: 
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured
Event Contact Name: 
Nikki McCourt
Event Contact E-mail: 

The Faculty Specific Ceremonies will include remarks from the Faculty Dean and the President & Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Moira McPherson, a student speaker, and the Conferral of Graduates and Medal recipients, followed by Chancellor Lyn McLeod’s remarks.

Watch the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPDNQQ41P2o_Wo0o8J8C8w/featured

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