{"id":46325,"date":"2017-08-23T13:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46325"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:38:21","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-wednesday-aug-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/brock-media-clips-for-wednesday-aug-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Wednesday, Aug. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Nile Epidemic in Ontario is imminent, says expert: <\/strong>Professor Fiona Hunter, director of Brock\u2019s Centre for Vector-Borne Diseases, along with PhD candidate Bryan Giordano received headlines across the country Wednesday after a research paper was published predicting an impending outbreak of West Nile virus. The story was picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/study-predicts-spike-in-west-nile-cases-for-ontario-this-summer-1.3557370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CTV National News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/brock-u-researchers-warn-of-possible-west-nile-virus-epidemic-in-ontario-1.3558003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CP24<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2017\/08\/22\/west-nile-epidemic-imminent-in-ontario-researchers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Toronto Sun<\/a> (and other Postmedia outlets across Canada), CBC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/west-nile-epidemic-in-ontario-is-imminent-says-expert\/ar-AAqyvfH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSN Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/west-nile-apos-epidemic-apos-194628479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo Canada<\/a> and numerous other radio stations, television outlets and online news sources. The pair, along with researcher Sukhdeep Kaur, also did numerous interviews throughout the day Wednesday, with more expected Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forget NAFTA, the roaring silence around trade talks with China is even more troubling: <\/strong>Brock professor Charles Burton wrote an article for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-roaring-silence-around-trade-talks-with-china-82690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Conversation Canada about trade issues with China<\/a>. It was republished in Maclean\u2019s, as well as in newspapers across the country including the National Post, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Province, Calgary Sun and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY: Brock gives tour of business school expansion: <\/strong>Andrew Gaudes, the new Dean of the Goodman School of Business, gave the media a tour of $22 million expansion and renovation project Tuesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/08\/22\/brock-gives-tour-of-business-school-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and CHCH News picked up the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thorold\u2019s first Vietnamese restaurant to open: <\/strong>Andy Tang, a former cook at Brock University has struck out on his own and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/08\/22\/thorolds-first-vietnamese-restaurant-to-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opening Thorold\u2019s first Vietnamese restaurant with his wife<\/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":46326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[5714,4008,1356,594,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46325"}],"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=46325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}