{"id":52789,"date":"2018-08-24T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52789"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:43:34","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-aug-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/08\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-aug-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, Aug. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why scientists suspect proof of a turning point in Earth&#8217;s history is sitting in a lake in Milton, Ont.:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work of a team of researchers, led by Brock Earth Sciences Professor Francine McCarthy, to discover when the newest geological epoch began was the subject of several news articles this week in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/why-scientists-suspect-proof-turning-080000308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yahoo! News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/8852629-a-new-age-dawns-at-crawford-lake-the-proof-may-be-lying-in-the-gunk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamilton Spectator<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greatlakesledger.com\/2018\/08\/20\/the-bottom-of-crawford-lake-reveals-the-beginning-of-the-current-geological-era-anthropocene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great Lakes Ledger<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How secondhand smoke boosts sinusitis risk:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Health Sciences Professor Martin Tammemagi explained his research into the correlation of tobacco smoke exposure and sinusitis in a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health24.com\/Medical\/Sinusitis\/News\/how-secondhand-smoke-boosts-sinusitis-risk-20180821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health24 story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock assistant athletic director leaving after 35 years to focus on her golf game:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports-story\/8856588-brock-assistant-athletic-director-leaving-after-35-years-to-focus-on-her-golf-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Catharines Standard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wrote about the upcoming retirement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of longtime Brock Assistant Athletic Director Chris Critelli, who will say goodbye to her role at the University at the end of the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twins put their heads together for mammoth mental and physical journey:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Medical Sciences student Jake Burella and his twin brother Josh will swim from Wasaga Beach to Collingwood on Aug. 26 \u2014 all in the name of mental health. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrietoday.com\/local-news\/twins-put-their-heads-together-for-mammoth-mental-and-physical-journey-1018431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barrie Today covered the story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retired Notre Dame coach Mike Rao taking over Brock women\u2019s program on interim basis:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Rao\u2019s move to head coach of Brock\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team was featured in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports-story\/8856584-retired-notre-dame-coach-mike-rao-taking-over-brock-women-s-program-on-interim-basis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Catharines Standard article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/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":38,"featured_media":42312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6,41,1,4,58],"tags":[256,4437,3740,885,1696,5662,3368,6927,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52789"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52790,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52789\/revisions\/52790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}