{"id":65484,"date":"2020-04-24T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65484"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:04:18","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/04\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-april-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Media Clips for Friday, April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Niagara volunteers step up to provide free grocery delivery during coronavirus outbreak:<\/strong> A volunteer initiative organized by fourth-year Medical Sciences student Ahmed Bagit to deliver groceries to those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic was featured in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news-story\/9957139-niagara-volunteers-step-up-to-provide-free-grocery-delivery-during-coronavirus-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Institutions strive to capture COVID-19 history through eyes of everyday Canadians:<\/strong> A <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2020\/04\/19\/institutions-strive-to-capture-covid-19-history-through-eyes-of-everyday-canadians.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Star article<\/a><\/em>, which was picked up by nearly 100 publications across the country, spoke about efforts to chronicle people\u2019s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and featured quotes from Brock\u2019s Head of Archives and Special Collections David Sharron, who discussed the materials the University has collected so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The devastating decline of a brilliant young coder:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Studio Amy Friend was commissioned to work on photographs that were included in a recent feature story from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder\/#intcid=recommendations_wired-homepage-right-rail-popular_409ecf23-cac6-4c70-affd-5c16a6757688_popular4-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired Magazine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local COVID-19 show features guests from Brock:<\/strong> YourTV Niagara (Cogego) programming featured interviews with Assistant Professor of Sport Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/255061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Naraine<\/a>, Professor of Biological Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/255056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liette Vasseur<\/a> and Associate Professor of Sport Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/255581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dawn Trussell<\/a>, all of whom discussed issues relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontario expects farm-gate cannabis to launch post-pandemic; craft framework in works:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Operations Research Michael Armstrong spoke with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/ontario-expects-farm-gate-cannabis-to-launch-post-pandemic-craft-framework-in-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marijuana Business Daily<\/a><\/em> about the need to lower the price of legal cannabis products. He also discussed legal cannabis during interviews on Newstalk 610 CKTB, CKGL in Kitchener and CFPL in London.<\/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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,7,37,6,41],"tags":[8917,2941,5682,3059,4252,7488,384,348,594,3231,46,4395,8568,2518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65484"}],"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=65484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65487,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65484\/revisions\/65487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}