{"id":43638,"date":"2017-02-17T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43638"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:27:02","slug":"brock-in-the-news-february-11-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/brock-in-the-news-february-11-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 February 11-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arts champ earns Women\u2019s Day award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Hale is well known around the University as a former dean of Humanities, but more so as the woman who was instrumental in relocating Brock\u2019s arts faculty downtown. Earlier this week, the was awarded the 2017 International Women\u2019s Day Award by the Women in Niagara Council: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/02\/12\/arts-chamption-hale-to-receive-international-womens-day-award\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Explorer Adam Shoalts on forthcoming solo Arctic expedition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brock alum Adam Shoalts (BA \u201909) will embark on a solo expedition across the Arctic to mark Canada\u2019s 150<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. He will begin his 4,000 km trek in May, arriving at Hudson Bay in September: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiangeographic.ca\/article\/explorer-adam-shoalts-forthcoming-solo-arctic-expedition#.WKS434wQOvg.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Show of shipwrecked treasures raises scientists\u2019 ire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Classics professor Elizabeth Greene weighs in on why showcasing the discovery of shipwrecked artefacts encourages exploitation of historical sites and compromises scientific integrity in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/show-of-shipwrecked-treasures-raises-scientists-ire-1.21429\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Journal of Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Signing the beam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff turned out to sign what will be the final steel beam installed in the expanded Goodman School of Business building. The event Thursday was picked up by Cogeco and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/02\/16\/brock-students-sign-beam\" target=\"_blank\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the media stories about Brock University this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":39122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[3525,4937,594,4938],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638"}],"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=43638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43644,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638\/revisions\/43644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}