{"id":808,"date":"2019-05-19T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/?p=808"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:39:21","slug":"an-unusual-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2019\/05\/an-unusual-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"An unusual defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The shooting on April 30th disrupted a lot of events on campus at the end of the semester.&nbsp; That said, I was impressed with the flexibility and resilience shown by the faculty and students as they pushed forward with work that still needed to get done.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t the venue that Ashley Ciero was planning, but she was adaptable (as well as her committee).&nbsp; She deliverable an excellent defense of her master&#8217;s thesis in front of her committee and her peers (who made the drive to S. Charlotte) and was unruffled when Merle abruptly left her presentation after only 5 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140801-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\nAshley Ciero and her advisor Dr. Hewlin following her successful master's thesis defense.\" class=\"wp-image-811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140801-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140801-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140801-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ashley Ciero and her advisor Dr. Hewlin following her successful master&#8217;s thesis defense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140857-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Ciero's thesis committee\" class=\"wp-image-810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140857-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140857-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_140857-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ashley Ciero&#8217;s thesis committee (+ Merle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_124106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_124106-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Hewlin, Merle, and Dr. Noras preparing for the defense.\" class=\"wp-image-809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_124106-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_124106-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_124106-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Hewlin, Merle, and Dr. Noras preparing for the defense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shooting on April 30th disrupted a lot of events on campus at the end of the semester.&nbsp; That said, I was impressed with the flexibility and resilience shown by the faculty and students as they pushed forward with work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2019\/05\/an-unusual-defense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}