{"id":43088,"date":"2017-01-20T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43088"},"modified":"2017-01-20T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:23:02","slug":"brock-in-the-news-january-14-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/01\/brock-in-the-news-january-14-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 January 14-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Happy birthday, iPhone: Let\u2019s talk about your dirty environmental secret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Apple celebrates the 10-year anniversary of their iPhone, Communications, Popular Culture and Film professor Jennifer Good discusses the dark side of discarded iPhones in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/happy-birthday-iphone-lets-talk-about-your-dirty-environmental-secret\/article33626533\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump presidency a crisis for Canada, says prof<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gets sworn into office on Jan. 20, Political Science professor Blayne Haggart explains how Canada is in for a rough four years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/18\/trump-a-crisis-for-canada-says-prof\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXh_8ucaqeY\" target=\"_blank\">CogecoTV Niagara<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Livestock disease-carrying insect in Ontario<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brock researchers have confirmed that an insect able to transmit the devastating virus has made its way to southern Ontario: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/12\/livestock-disease-in-sect-discovered-in-ontario\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A look at Niagara, circa 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political science professor Charles Conteh pens an opinion column in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/18\/conteh-niagara-circa-2025\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> about the future of Niagara and some of the things people can expect in the next eight years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wrestlers start 2017 on top<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brock wrestling program is off to a winning start to 2017 as the No.1 ranked men\u2019s and women\u2019s team captured titles at the Brock open: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/01\/16\/brock-dominates-wrestling-meet\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/sports-story\/7072456-badgers-open-season-with-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara this Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Student-athletes raise awareness about performance-enhancing drugs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvcogeco.com\/niagara\/gallery\/the-source\/8132-january-2017\/112193-badgers-clean-sport\" target=\"_blank\">CogecoTV Niagara<\/a> profiled the Brock women\u2019s hockey team as they raised awareness about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs, attracting more than 1,000 youths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elgadi leading the Badgers back to the national stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brock men\u2019s basketball athlete Dani Elgadi discusses with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/the-starting-five-elgadi-on-leading-the-badgers-back-to-the-national-stage-1.652313\" target=\"_blank\">TSN<\/a> the progress the team has made over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the media attention Brock University had this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":40228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1,4],"tags":[3445,4437,3095,3943,3655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43088"}],"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=43088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43090,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43088\/revisions\/43090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}