{"id":28931,"date":"2014-07-18T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28931"},"modified":"2014-07-21T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T13:54:17","slug":"brock-international-hosts-we-welcome-the-world-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/07\/brock-international-hosts-we-welcome-the-world-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock International hosts We Welcome the World Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28932\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28932\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28932 \" title=\"_mg_5691\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/_mg_5691-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_5691\" width=\"504\" height=\"290\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock International introduced the newest visiting international professors, scholars and university mentorship participants at this term&#39;s We Welcome the World Reception. From left: Tek Thongpapanl, Jack Lightstone, Abdul R. Ashraf, Neil McCartney and Kim Meade.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-international\" target=\"_blank\">Brock International<\/a> introduced the newest visiting international professors, scholars and university mentorship participants, including Science without Borders students from around the world, at this term&#8217;s We Welcome the World Reception.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which was held July 16, is organized each term to formally recognize <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-international\/visiting-international-profess\" target=\"_blank\">new participant<\/a>s in the VIP, VIS, and UM programs at Brock. Participants in those programs currently represent 60 academic institutions from 13 countries, including: Australia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting scholar programs began more than a decade ago, and Brock International recognized the 500th participant with a special presentation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/news\/26676\" target=\"_blank\">Abdul Rehman Ashraf<\/a>, a PhD candidate from the University of New South Wales, Australia, was recognized as the 500th scholar. Ashraf is also a Brock alumnus (MSc \u201810) was has returned to Brock as a visiting international scholar to work with Tek Thongpapanl in the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/business\/contactus\/faculty-staff-listing\/faculty-staff-search\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Marketing, International Business and Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They will be collaborating on a research project in the area of online shopping decision-making for the next three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock International introduced the newest visiting international professors, scholars and university mentorship participants, including Science without Borders students from around the world, at this term&#8217;s We Welcome the World Reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[159,2092,2090,2091,825,601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931"}],"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=28931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28941,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931\/revisions\/28941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}