{"id":26538,"date":"2014-02-21T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=26538"},"modified":"2014-02-21T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:19:30","slug":"media-talk-feb-8-feb-20-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/02\/media-talk-feb-8-feb-20-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Talk (Feb. 8 – Feb. 20, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Media Talk” is a recurring summary of select Brock faculty, staff and student appearances in the media. If you have details of a media appearance to share with The Brock News, please send them to campusnews@brocku.ca<\/em><\/p>\n

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Feb. 8:<\/strong> CBC News <\/em>(Hamilton) “Extreme cold: Ontario wine grower’s crop devastated by bitter cold<\/a>”
\nFeaturing comments about the effects of cold weather on grape crops<\/a> by Jim Willwerth, CCOVI viticulturlist.<\/p>\n

Feb. 9: <\/strong>Forbes<\/em> “Violent Video Games Can Turn Kids Into Progressive Intellectuals<\/a>”
\nReferences a study conducted by Mirjana Bajovic, an instructor in the Faculty of Education’s Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies.<\/p>\n

Feb. 9: <\/strong>St. Catharines Standard \/ Welland Tribune \/ Niagara Falls Review<\/em> “Brock students spread the love at long-term care centre<\/a>”
\nCogeco-TV<\/em> – “Seniors Prom<\/a>”
\nStory about 15 students from Brock’s Leaders Citizenship Society who co-ordinated a Valentine’s Day Prom Night for residents of West Park Health Centre in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n

Feb. 11:<\/strong> St. Catharines Standard \/ Welland Tribune \/ Niagara Falls Review<\/em> “Arts centres on time and on budget: Brock, St. Catharines<\/a>”
\nFeaturing comments by President Jack Lightstone; Brian Hutchings, Vice-President of Finance and Administration and Douglas Keanle, dean of the Faculty of Humanities, taken from a Feb. 10 presentation to St. Catharines city council<\/a> about the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

Feb. 11:<\/strong> The Globe and Mail<\/em> (debate) “The CBC has corrupted itself by giving in to Olympic demands<\/a>” by Blayne Haggart, assistant professor of political science.<\/p>\n

Feb. 12: <\/strong>Huffington Post <\/em>(blog) “Animals Are Workers, Too<\/a>” by Kendra Coulter, assistant professor, Labour Studies at Brock.<\/p>\n

Feb. 12: <\/strong>St. Catharines Standard \/ Welland Tribune \/ Niagara Falls Review<\/em> “What’s going on with monarch butterflies?<\/a>”
\nFeaturing comments by Liette Vasseur, professor of biological sciences and member of Brock’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC), about the environmental impacts affecting migrating species, such as monarch butterflies.<\/p>\n

Feb. 12:<\/strong> Niagara News<\/em> (Niagara College) “Pesticides poisoning our future<\/a>”
\nInterview with Liette Vasseur, professor of biological sciences.<\/p>\n

Feb. 12: <\/strong>Brock Radio CFBU 103.7 FM<\/em> – Inquisitive Minds with Mike Saunders<\/a><\/p>\n