{"id":45952,"date":"2017-07-21T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=45952"},"modified":"2017-07-21T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T14:00:39","slug":"brock-in-the-news-july-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/07\/brock-in-the-news-july-15-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 July 15-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Global warming threatens some of the world\u2019s favourite wines for surprising reasons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Extreme heat isn\u2019t the only thing affecting the wine industry. Brock biologist and viticulture researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/global-warming-wine-1.4202964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Professor Gary Pickering explains<\/span><\/a> that droughts, extreme cold weather, and frequency of extreme weather events are impacting the lifespan of vines, as well as the process of ripening the grapes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Female-led \u2018Doctor Who\u2019 stokes talk about lack of visible minority heroines<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Professor Scott Henderson and alumna Lisa Funnell (MA \u201906) comment on the casting of British actress Jodie Whittaker for the female lead of popular television series \u2018Doctor Who,\u2019 sparking conversation on the increased need for visible minority heroines in mainstream media: <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/entertainment-pmn\/female-led-doctor-who-stokes-talk-about-lack-of-visible-minority-heroines\/wcm\/1aa02097-32a9-4941-9211-68b030ada082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">National Post<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/2017\/07\/18\/female-led-doctor-who-stokes-conversation-about-lack-of-visible-minority-heroines.html?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=MarCom%20FB%20post&amp;utm_campaign=Employee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Toronto Star<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cp24.com\/entertainment-news\/movie-tv-news\/female-led-doctor-who-stokes-talk-about-lack-of-visible-minority-heroines-1.3509134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">CP24<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therecord.com\/whatson-story\/7449095-female-led-doctor-who-stokes-talk-about-lack-of-visible-minority-heroines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Waterloo Region Record<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><strong><span class=\"s1\">A gap between girl power and girlhood in the classroom<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Child and Youth Studies professors Rebecca Raby and Shauna Pomerantz continue to receive widespread media coverage for their new book, \u201cSmart Girls: Success, School and The Myth of Post-Feminism,\u201d making an appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/tvo.org\/video\/programs\/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin\/girl-power-beyond-the-stereotype\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">TVO<\/span><\/a> and being featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/17\/gap-girl-power-girlhood-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Ms. Magazine Blog<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><b><\/b><strong><span class=\"s1\">Compassionate b-ball camp at Brock<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Women\u2019s basketball coach Ashley MacSporran is on a mission to build and guide strong young women into leaders as part of the year-long #CompassionateSTC campaign with JCI St. Catharines: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/07\/17\/compassionate-b-ball-camp-at-brock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">St. Catharines Standard<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7449469-working-toward-a-more-inclusive-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Niagara this Week<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the Brock University media clips for this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":30055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45952"}],"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=45952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}