{"id":46129,"date":"2017-08-08T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46129"},"modified":"2017-08-08T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:31:33","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-tuesday-aug-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/brock-media-clips-for-tuesday-aug-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Tuesday, Aug. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock U water safety expert comments on black water spill: <\/strong>Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Ian Brindle continued to speak with the media over the weekend about the black water spill in the Niagara River. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chch.com\/new-information-black-substance-discharged-niagara-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He appeared on CHCH News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/niagara-discharge-1.4233907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on CBC Friday<\/a>, and was interviewed on CKTB\u2019s Tim Denis Show Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Niagara teacher heads north: <\/strong>Recent Brock graduate Emily Girotti will soon travel to Poplar Hill First Nation, a remote northern Ontario community near the Manitoba border that&#8217;s only accessible by plane, to start a two-year stint at an elementary school. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/08\/07\/teacher-sets-her-sights-on-the-north\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Niagara Falls Review interviewed Girotti about the opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BU basketball team bound for Canada: <\/strong>The Brock Badgers men\u2019s basketball team will open their pre-season schedule against the Binghamton Bearcats, a Division 1 school in New York. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/binghamton\/sports\/2017\/08\/7\/bu-basketball-team-bound-for-canada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A local news network near Binghamton picked up the story about the school making the trip north<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did we miss something? If you know of an appearance or story about a Brock faculty member, student, athlete or alumni, please drop us a line with a link to the story at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\"><em>universitycom@brocku.ca<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[256,5647,2830],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}