{"id":68939,"date":"2020-10-29T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=68939"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:22:04","slug":"brock-community-mourns-the-loss-of-mary-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/10\/brock-community-mourns-the-loss-of-mary-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock community mourns the loss of Mary Frances Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Brock University is saddened to learn about the passing of former Chemistry Professor Mary Frances Richardson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Richardson left behind a lasting legacy at Brock. During her time at the University, she was both an award-winning professor and a trailblazer for women in chemistry, implementing initiatives that are still in place at Brock today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A vigilant leader in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), Richardson encouraged and advocated for women to pursue careers in chemistry, while also creating an innovative revision of Brock\u2019s curriculum for Chemistry students. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her hard work did not go unnoticed and in 1992 she was named the Canadian Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Richardson also played a vital role in organizing Brock\u2019s Centre for Women\u2019s Studies, now known as Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. She chaired the organizing committee, consisting of female professors in each of Brock\u2019s Faculties and a number of librarians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The new program was established in honour of the 14 female engineering students who were killed at \u00c9cole Polytechnique in Montr\u00e9al on Dec. 6, 1989. It was approved by the University\u2019s Senate in December 1990. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Alongside her teaching career, Richardson also enjoyed being a home brewer and an avid Bruce Trail hiker. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Richardson passed away on Friday, Sept. 25, three weeks after her 79th birthday. A private funeral has taken place and a Celebration of Life will be planned in the future. Condolences and memories may be shared <\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsfh.com\/memorials\/mary-richardson\/4373449\/index.php\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In lieu of flowers, donations to the Bruce Trail Conservancy can be made in Richardson\u2019s honour. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is saddened to learn about the passing of former Chemistry Professor Mary Frances Richardson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,41,1,4],"tags":[7437,9636,1426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68939"}],"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=68939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68949,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68939\/revisions\/68949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}