{"id":53661,"date":"2018-10-05T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53661"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:39:03","slug":"brock-to-host-lab-tours-as-national-funding-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/10\/brock-to-host-lab-tours-as-national-funding-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to host lab tours as national funding announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s pretty easy to monitor a moose or a bear when studying their foraging and mating patterns over a few years: just clip some kind of label or tracking device onto one of their body parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But what if you\u2019re observing a specific bee over time? Do you attach a label onto one of its little legs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brock University bee expert Miriam Richards will be explaining her research to Members of Parliament Chris Bittle and Vance Badawey on Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. as part of a tour in Brock\u2019s Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bittle and Badawey are visiting Brock University on the day the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is set to announce significant funding for scientists nation-wide, including those at Brock University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At 1:30 p.m., Bittle and Badawey, along with Brock Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon, will be meeting informally with researchers who received grants from the federal government\u2019s science research funding agency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pretty easy to monitor a moose or a bear when studying their foraging and mating patterns over a few years: just clip some kind of label or tracking device onto one of their body parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,41],"tags":[3708,1099,5624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53661"}],"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=53661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53662,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53661\/revisions\/53662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}