{"id":59077,"date":"2019-06-27T13:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=59077"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:03:20","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-thursday-june-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/06\/brock-media-clips-for-thursday-june-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Thursday, June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takes new role at Brock University:<\/strong> Amos Key, Jr., Brock\u2019s incoming Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement, was featured in an article in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brantfordexpositor.ca\/news\/local-news\/key-takes-new-role-at-brock-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brantford Expositor<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0focused on his time at Brantford&#8217;s Woodland Cultural Centre and his new role at Brock. Key begins his time at the University Monday, July 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waiting for The Wave: What can Hamilton do to stave off climate-change flooding?:<\/strong> Articles in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/9454299-waiting-for-the-wave-what-can-hamilton-do-to-stave-off-climate-change-flooding-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamilton Spectator<\/a><\/em> and<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news-story\/9454239-why-is-lake-ontario-so-high-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/em> discussing record water levels on Lake Ontario featured comments from Professor of Biological Sciences Liette Vasseur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greta Thunberg: How one teenager became the voice of the planet:<\/strong> Child and Youth Studies Professor Rebecca Raby spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/greta-thunberg-climate-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wired<\/a> about youth activism in a piece about Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, who has mobilized millions of young people to demand action on the world&#8217;s climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontario cannabis sales more than doubled after stores started to open:<\/strong> In a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5424432\/ontario-cannabis-sales-stores-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global News<\/a> article, Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong\u00a0discussed the appeal of cash transactions for those purchasing marijuana legally in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock hires Carleton lead assistant Willy Manigat as men\u2019s team head coach:<\/strong> The introduction of Willy Manigat\u00a0as Brock\u2019s new men\u2019s basketball coach was the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports-story\/9456517-brock-hires-carleton-lead-assistant-willy-manigat-as-men-s-team-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em> article<\/a>. Manigat was previously an assistant coach for the Carleton Ravens men\u2019s basketball team.<\/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 <a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\">universitycom@brocku.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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":26,"featured_media":59080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6,41,1,38,58],"tags":[7832,4437,348,522,594,4226,3231,255,4395,1532,7831,8050],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59077"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59081,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59077\/revisions\/59081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}