{"id":49291,"date":"2018-02-09T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49291"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:51:27","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-feb-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-feb-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, Feb. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock University to fully pay tuition for international students pursuing PhD: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/education\/brock-university-to-pick-up-full-tuition-tab-for-international-students\/article37915822\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Globe and Mail quickly picked up on Brock\u2019s announcement Thursday<\/a> that it was\u00a0increasing its financial support of international students who are pursuing a doctoral degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t underestimate impact of smaller sport events, new Brock report says:<\/strong> Brock\u2019s Niagara Community Observatory released a report from the Centre for Sport Capacity this week about how the impacts of sporting events in Niagara are measured. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/8125185-don-t-underestimate-impact-of-smaller-sport-events-new-brock-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara This Week<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2018\/02\/07\/niagara-needs-a-sport-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-9PG7tQkNo&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YourTV Niagara<\/a> all covered an NCO launch event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting deputy fire chief role becomes permanent:<\/strong> Brock alumnus Dave Upper (BEd \u201991) has been named deputy fire chief of the St. Catharines Fire Department. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2018\/02\/06\/temporary-deputy-fire-chief-becomes-permanent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The St. Catharines Standard wrote about the appointment earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontario grant helps Brock create first-of-its-kind wine sensory lab: <\/strong>In his Wines in Niagara Column Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/winesinniagara.com\/2018\/02\/niagara-wine-wire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rick VanSickle wrote about the recent funding announcement<\/a> that will allow Brock to build the world\u2019s first augmented reality, virtual reality and sensory reality consumer laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><em>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":49292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4052,6,1,4],"tags":[159,5638,6279,4014,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291"}],"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=49291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49293,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49291\/revisions\/49293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}