{"id":50701,"date":"2018-04-24T10:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50701"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:23:08","slug":"the-life-of-zopito-marini-to-be-celebrated-may-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/the-life-of-zopito-marini-to-be-celebrated-may-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The life of Zopito Marini to be celebrated May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock community is invited to celebrate the life of Zopito Marini at a memorial event on campus Sunday, May 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Held at Pond Inlet beginning at 6:30 p.m., the event will honour <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/11\/brock-community-grieves-the-loss-of-zopito-marini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the beloved teacher and academic colleague<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0who died suddenly while travelling overseas on Oct. 23, 2017, in his hometown of Montebello di Bertona, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A developmental psychologist, Marini received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1984, and joined Brock the following year as an assistant professor in Child Studies. By 1993, he co-founded Brock\u2019s renowned Department of Child and Youth Studies, serving as its inaugural Chair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marini won numerous local, provincial and national awards for teaching excellence during his career. He was also a recognized international expert in socio-cognitive development, writing and lecturing on such issues as family and school conflicts, civility, bullying and victimization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marini is survived by his wife Helen, sons Michael (Adrianne) and Matthew (Tara), and his sister Anna Sablone (Carmen).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parking for the memorial event will be available in Lot A.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is invited to celebrate the life of Zopito Marini at a memorial event on campus Sunday, May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,38],"tags":[45,3438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50701"}],"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=50701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50704,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50701\/revisions\/50704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}