{"id":12832,"date":"2011-10-18T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12832"},"modified":"2011-10-18T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:47:23","slug":"brock-recognizes-profs-for-creative-teaching-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/brock-recognizes-profs-for-creative-teaching-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock recognizes profs for creative teaching and research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12834\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12834\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12834 \" title=\"Nancy Francis\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nancyfrancis.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Francis\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Francis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock students benefit from the commitment and expertise of faculty who give them an innovative and student-centred environment. Their influence engages students to think creatively and critically inside and outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Brock will honour two professors for their outstanding contributions to teaching and research at Fall Convocation on Saturday, Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12835\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12835\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12835 \" title=\"Vincenzo De Luca\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vince-d-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vincenzo De Luca\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincenzo De Luca<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/kinesiology\/nancy-r-francis\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Francis<\/a> from the Department of Kinesiology will receive the Brock University Award for Distinguished Teaching. <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/departments-and-centres\/biology\/people\/vincenzo-de-luca\" target=\"_blank\">Vincenzo De Luca<\/a> from Biological Sciences will receive the Brock University Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock Award for Distinguished Teaching recognizes a faculty member who has made a significant commitment to giving students a quality learning experience. It also acknowledges contributions to curriculum development and the mentoring of colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Francis will receive her award at Saturday\u2019s 10 a.m. ceremony. She will also deliver the Convocation address at the 2 p.m. ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity recognizes faculty members who demonstrate outstanding research achievements, contributions to the training of future researchers, and consistent scholarly or creative performance.<\/p>\n<p>More than 800 students are expected to receive their degrees at Fall Convocation. All ceremonies will be held in the Ian D. Beddis Gymnasium. There will be a reception for graduates, family and other guests after each ceremony.<\/p>\n<div>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/news\/17703\">Read more about Francis and De Luca&#8217;s achievements<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Francis and Vincenzo De Luca will be honoured with teaching awards at Convocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[28,49,156,15,3328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12836,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions\/12836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}