{"id":41452,"date":"2016-10-07T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41452"},"modified":"2016-10-07T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:35:26","slug":"brock-in-the-news-october-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/10\/brock-in-the-news-october-1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News: October 1-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brock names interim president<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brock University has named Tom Traves as its new Interim President. Traves comes to Brock with 18 years of experience as President of Dalhousie University and a strong track record of leadership in higher education: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/tom-traves-dalhousie-university-brock-new-job-post-secondary-1.3787531?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2975047\/brock-university-names-new-interim-president-after-wendy-cukier-doesnt-take-post\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Global News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/brock-university-names-tom-traves-new-interim-president\/article32164032\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+\/+Media&amp;utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2016\/09\/30\/brock-university-names-new-interim-president-after-wendy-cukier-doesnt-take-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock renames road after M\u00e9tis business woman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Brock supporter and Board of Trustees member Suzanne Rochon-Burnett is remembered for her commitment to empowering and educating Indigenous youth, with the University commemorating her work by renaming a road on-campus in her honour: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/10\/04\/brock-renames-road-after-metis-business-woman?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside the 38-bed Manitoba hospital where babies were switched at birth and they \u2018were always short staffed\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/forty-years-gone-i-want-answers-best-friends-not-only-ones-switched-at-birth-at-manitoba-hospital\" target=\"_blank\">National Post<\/a> highlights Maureen Lux\u2019s research and book \u201cSeparate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada,\u201d detailing the segregated healthcare system and the impact it had on Indigenous families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock studying insect migration <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leading Zika expert Fiona Hunter continues her research on mosquitos, explaining in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-zika-virus-could-make-its-way-north-507085\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/10\/05\/brock-studying-insect-migration\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a>\u00a0that warming climates could potentially attract insects further north into Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Kissi signs contract extension with Brock men\u2019s basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/radio\/hamilton-1150\/kissi-easy-decision-to-sign-extension-with-brock-university-1.576521\" target=\"_blank\">TSN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/09\/29\/charles-in-charge\" target=\"_blank\">St Catharines Standard<\/a> recently sat down with Brock men\u2019s basketball coach Charles Kissi to discuss his recent three-year contract extension with the Badgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Brock University naming Tom Traves as its new Interim President made headlines on the CBC, Global News, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":41398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[4188,3501,1356,4220,4259,4526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41452"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}