Research under way by graduate students is the product of a community of risk takers who understand the value of setting minds alight, said Murray Knuttila, Brock’s Provost and Vice-President Academic.
The Office of Research Services (ORS) is setting up a voluntary “peer support” structure for researchers to turn to their colleagues for direction, advice and other support during the application process for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding and grants.
In 2030, North America will not only be energy independent but a net exporter of energy. We’ll be sipping local wines that once upon a time were produced somewhere else or not at all. And, if we continue living out of sync with the natural environment, we’ll be in big trouble.
In the Ontario vineyard of 2030, we’ll sip wines that were once the domain of far-away, exotic locations. Big business will set environmental and social policies. And consumers will choose how their energy is generated.
The number of fall-related injuries reported in Ontario are astonishing. A report released in 2012 by the Ontario Injury Research Centre, based on data from 2007 to 2009, put the number of visits to Ontario hospitals due to falls at just more than 750,000. According to the data, those visits accounted for about 72,000 hospital admissions.
A record number of Brock graduate students will be participating in the Mapping the New Knowledges research conference on Wednesday, April 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Brock campus.
A mother in the Niagara Region would have to earn almost $38,000 a year to feel that it was affordable to return to work after having just one child.
After finishing her undergraduate degree in psychology and child and youth studies at Brock University, Ashley Hobden spent a good part of a year volunteering in impoverished communities in Brazil.
Brock is building its reputation as a university known for a culture of research leadership.
To help, Gary Libben, Vice-President of Research, is co-ordinating the development of 2020 Vision: The Brock 2013 Research Plan. It’s the latest edition of University’s strategic research plan, a guide for advancing research at Brock until 2020 and measuring the milestones the institution reaches all the while.
Two Brock researchers are included in this year’s line-up of Canada Research Chair holders, announced by the federal government March 15.
Brock gears up for Congress 2014
Participants wanted for Brock’s Rankin Run team
Former Brock prof had passion for correcting history
Brock hosts two-day science adventure for Grade 11 girls
Who is that masked woman? Meet Anonymous Artist Friend
Concordia sculpture on the move Monday
3M Teaching Fellows to give Last Lecture