{"id":42946,"date":"2017-01-13T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42946"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:20:32","slug":"brock-in-the-news-january-7-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/01\/brock-in-the-news-january-7-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 January 7-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Premier Wynne visits Brock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Brock on Jan. 13 to tour the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute at Inniskillin Hall: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/12\/wynne-at-brock-university-friday\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goodman wins \u2018School of the Year\u2019 at JDCC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Goodman School of Business if off to a winning start for 2017, taking home the top-prize \u2018School of the Year\u2019 trophy at the annual JDC Central competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7059280-goodman-wins-school-of-the-year-at-jdcc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara this Week<\/a> met up with the group of 40 students, who also placed 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the mini competitions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffles cabinet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Zachary Spicer weighs in on how Justin Trudeau is preparing his cabinet for a Trump America on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chch.com\/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-shuffles-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\">CHCH News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Experts discuss a Trump America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Faculty of Social Sciences will be hosting a panel to discuss the impending Trump presidency, featuring three professors from the Political Science department: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/11\/brock-panel-to-discuss-trump-presidency\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/ez-rock\/1057ezrock\/news\/local\/brock-prof-reacts-to-trump-s-first-press-conference-as-president-elect-1.2325776\" target=\"_blank\">1057 EZ Rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Art Block sweeps back into Brock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts display their artwork for the first time in a professional space, placing a number of art pieces up for sale. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/11\/art-block-sweeps-back-into-brock\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> profiled the students and their excitement for the opening reception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asexual community calls for understanding, support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/asexual-awareness-in-winnipeg-1.3924543\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a> picked up on Psychology professor Anthony Bogaert\u2019s 2004 research regarding asexuality as part of their profile of a citizen from Winnipeg struggling with people understanding what this sexual orientation means.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Badgers host Clean Sport awareness game for 1,000 students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brock Badgers women\u2019s hockey team in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport hosted a clean sport awareness game for 1,000 youth, educating students on the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/sports-story\/7061352-badgers-host-clean-sport-awareness-game-for-1-000-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara this Week<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/radio\/hamilton-1150\/lumsden-ped-s-more-readily-available-than-people-think-1.649055\" target=\"_blank\">TSN 1150<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the media hits from Brock University this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[4798,4188,61,3576,1120,3428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42946"}],"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=42946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42949,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42946\/revisions\/42949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}