{"id":72595,"date":"2021-06-11T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=72595"},"modified":"2021-06-11T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:40:15","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-june-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/06\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-june-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock media clips for Friday, June 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock expecting large incoming class this fall:<\/strong> The announcement that Brock University is expecting more than 4,000 new students this fall was discussed in an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/brock-university-preparing-to-welcome-more-than-4-000-new-badgers-this-fall-1.15391338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a>. Brock\u2019s Provost and Vice-President, Academic Lynn Wells also spoke about enrolment growth in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/audio\/matt-holmes-lynn-wells-brock-university-provost-and-vice-president-academic-brock-u-expecting-large-incoming-class-in-fall-1.15395113?mode=Article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CKTB\u2019s Matt Holmes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safe return to play tops to-do list for new director of Brock Sports:<\/strong> Brock University\u2019s new Director of Brock Sports Melissa Krist spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports\/niagara-region\/2021\/06\/07\/safe-return-to-play-tops-to-do-list-for-new-brock-university-athletic-director.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The St. Catharines Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/audio\/niagara-sports-report-melissa-krist-brock-university-director-of-sports-1.15357236?mode=Article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about her top priorities in the job, which include the safe return of athletes this fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talks continue to end week-old strike at Vale in Sudbury: <\/strong>Professor of Labour Studies Larry Savage was quoted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/vale-strike-two-tiered-benefits-pension-contracts-1.6058730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a> article about a strike by steel workers in Sudbury who voted down a proposed contract that would have seen new workers stripped of health benefits upon their retirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A conversation with Ken Chan:<\/strong> Brock\u2019s new Vice-President, Administration Ken Chan spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourtv.tv\/node\/312136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YourTV Niagara<\/a> about his first week at the University and his plans for the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welland library taking people on an adventure from Mars to small northern Anishinaabe community: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Mariek Schmidt\u2019s presentation at the Welland Library about her work on multiple Mars rover missions was discussed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/2021\/06\/07\/welland-library-taking-people-on-an-adventure-from-mars-to-small-northern-anishinaabe-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Catharines Standard article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partnership between Brock and FirstOntario to support financial literacy in Niagara\u2019s youth:<\/strong> Brock University President Gervan Fearon spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/yourtv.tv\/node\/312171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YourTV Niagara<\/a> about a partnership between the University and FirstOntario Credit Union to foster and support financial literacy in Niagara\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">universitycom@brocku.ca<\/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":72597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,6,41,38,58],"tags":[4437,348,522,5398,9909,4358,8809,852,10286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595"}],"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=72595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72596,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72595\/revisions\/72596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}