{"id":62438,"date":"2019-11-29T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=62438"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:37:33","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-nov-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/11\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-nov-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, Nov. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polar bear dips can be dangerous for some people, says Brock University kinesiology professor:\u00a0<\/strong>The effects of cold water on the Human body were discussed by Kinesiology professor Stephen Cheung in articles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/news-story\/9739976-polar-bear-dips-can-be-dangerous-for-some-people-says-brock-university-kinesiology-professor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Welland Tribune about polar bear dips<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/news-story\/9738708-welland-man-says-cold-water-therapy-works-for-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cold water therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock prof collects 1,600 books for needy African schools: <\/strong>Goodman School of Business Assistant Professor Princely Ifinedo was featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news-story\/9735574-brock-prof-collects-1-600-books-for-needy-african-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Catharines Standard article<\/a> that profiled his co-ordination and donation of 1,600 textbooks to eight schools in Nigeria.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cannabis sales falter as store openings stall: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong spoke about fluctuating cannabis stock prices in an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cultivated-week-november-22-newsletter-2019-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a>. He also discussed a cut in legal cannabis prices in a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6204375\/cannabis-sales-fell-in-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global News interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UBC study finds dogs may help motivate kids to read: <\/strong>Research conducted with Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies Christine Tardif-Williams and partners from UBC Okanagan about an increase in children\u2019s reading habits when a dog is present was highlighted in articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/ubc-study-finds-dogs-may-help-motivate-kids-to-read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Vancouver Sun<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernonmorningstar.com\/news\/kids-read-better-with-dogs-ubco-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Vernon Morning Star<\/a>.<\/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 <\/em><a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>universitycom@brocku.ca<\/em><\/a><\/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":45744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,6,38],"tags":[8496,7488,522,594,4395,8495,2998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438"}],"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=62438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62439,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438\/revisions\/62439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}