{"id":4614,"date":"2010-08-24T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:31:43","slug":"sweet-homecoming-for-oevi-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/08\/sweet-homecoming-for-oevi-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet homecoming for OEVI grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4613\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4613\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4613\" title=\"OEVI reunion\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/oevireunion1.jpg\" alt=\"OEVI reunion\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduates and friends enjoyed wine and entertainment at the OEVI 10th anniversary celebration.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a special homecoming in Pond Inlet Aug. 20 when graduates, guests and friends attended the 10th anniversary of Brock&#8217;s Oenology and Viticulture (OEVI) program.<\/p>\n<p>Graduates from as far away as California returned to reminisce about their experiences and enjoy wines made by program alumni.<\/p>\n<p>OEVI students and researchers benefit from the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) at Brock, one of a handful of cool climate research centres in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the program receive a comprehensive scientific education, combined with practical skills in grape growing and winemaking, and exposure to business, tourism and wine appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>CCOVI has trained more than 40 PhD, master\u2019s students and post-doctoral fellows, and Brock overall has produced close to 100 graduates through the OEVI program.<\/p>\n<p>Graduates wrote testimonials leading up to the reunion praising the value of their CCOVI degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCCOVI certainly provides one of the best and most solid foundations from which you can build a very successful career,\u201d said Megan Schofield, graduate in the class of 2000 and assistant winemaker at Simi Winery, Sonoma Valley, Calif.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4615\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4615\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4615\" title=\"Karl Kaiser, Debbie Inglis, Donald Ziraldo\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/oevireunion3.jpg\" alt=\"Karl Kaiser, Debbie Inglis, Donald Ziraldo\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCOVI director Debbie Inglis, centre, chatted with Karl Kaiser and Donald Ziraldo at the 10th anniversary celebration.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates, guests and friends attended the 10th anniversary of Brock&#8217;s Oenology and Viticulture (OEVI) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,3,1],"tags":[61,3328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}