{"id":23514,"date":"2013-07-22T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=23514"},"modified":"2013-07-23T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:17:28","slug":"latest-visiting-academics-get-brock-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/07\/latest-visiting-academics-get-brock-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest visiting academics get Brock welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23515\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/welcome-ums.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23515\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23515\" title=\"welcome-ums\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/welcome-ums-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"Brock International hosted We Welcome the World last week to formally introduce visiting academics to the Brock community. Seen here are university mentorship program participants (from left): Mary-Ambre Carvalho (France), Audrey Weber (France), Marine Cargoet (France), Soufyan Jehaoui (France). Front: Debora Boccolini Paiva (Brazil).\" width=\"504\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock International hosted We Welcome the World last week to formally introduce visiting academics to the Brock community. Seen here are university mentorship program participants (from left): Mary-Ambre Carvalho (France), Audrey Weber (France), Marine Cargoet (France), Soufyan Jehaoui (France). Front: Debora Boccolini Paiva (Brazil).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock once again welcomed the world when it introduced its newest visiting academics to the community last week.<\/p>\n<p>Brock is hosting 61 visiting international professors, scholars and university mentorship (UM) participants from 46 universities, including institutions from Brazil, China, France, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Sweden, Turkey and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Program participants stay at Brock from as little as three weeks to up to one year, working with faculty, staff and students on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Some visiting professors come to teach courses here or pursue work with a particular faculty member or department at Brock, and are usually invited if there is interest and availability. In many cases, the program participant&#8217;s home university or government will support their travels abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting academics were formally recognized at <a title=\"Brock International\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-international\" target=\"_blank\">Brock International&#8217;s <\/a>We Welcome the World reception in Alphie&#8217;s Trough last Wednesday. The event was also an opportunity for the scholars to network with other Brock faculty and staff, and fellow international participants.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Visiting Academics\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/27201\" target=\"_blank\">View a list of visiting academics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock once again welcomed the world when it introduced its newest visiting academics to the community last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[159,1182,603],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23520,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514\/revisions\/23520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}