{"id":53025,"date":"2018-09-10T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53025"},"modified":"2018-09-10T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:44:32","slug":"final-days-to-vote-for-brock-students-nserc-contest-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/09\/final-days-to-vote-for-brock-students-nserc-contest-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Final days to vote for Brock student&#8217;s NSERC contest entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Brock Master of Sustainability student in the running for a nationwide photo contest needs the support of the University community to claim the top prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/brock-student-makes-top-20-in-national-science-research-photography-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dana Harris<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is one of 20 researchers across Canada who are vying for the People\u2019s Choice Award in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada\u2019s (NSERC) <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/ScienceExposed-PreuveParLimage\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science Exposed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51108\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51108\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-51108\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dana-Harris-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Harris photo submission\" width=\"357\" height=\"223\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Harris&#8217; submission to the NSERC Science Exposed competition features cells of the jack pine tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her submission, titled \u201cExploring the Jack Pine Tight Knit Family Tree,\u201d shows phases of stained developing xylem cells that are found in a wood sample cored from the outermost part of a jack pine tree in the Northwest Territories, where she is from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voting for the People\u2019s Choice Award, which began when finalists were announced this spring, closes Sunday, Sept. 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visitors to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/ScienceExposed-PreuveParLimage\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science Exposed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> website must register to vote for their favourite photo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The image that receives the most votes from the public will win the People\u2019s Choice Award. Only one form can be submitted per person per email for the duration of the contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NSERC\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/ScienceExposed-PreuveParLimage\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science Exposed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contest showcases images of Canadian scientific research from all fields. The contest is open to faculty and student researchers in post-secondary institutions and researchers in public and private research centres.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brock Master of Sustainability student in the running for a nationwide photo contest needs the support of the University community to claim the top prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":51109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,55,1,4,5,38],"tags":[6649,6950,2195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025"}],"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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53026,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025\/revisions\/53026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}