{"id":73244,"date":"2021-07-16T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=73244"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:38:01","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-friday-july-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/07\/brock-media-clips-for-friday-july-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock media clips for Friday, July 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How &#8216;choice&#8217; in child care might play out in the coming federal election: <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Social Sciences Kate Bezanson\u00a0spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/child-care-pandemic-2021-election-trudeau-otoole-1.6099580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/ched-mid-morning\/how-choice-in-child-care-might-effect-the-coming-f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global News Radio<\/a> about plans for affordable child care in Canada and how it might impact the next election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccination rate near 90% vital to control COVID spread: Brock prof:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Health Sciences Adam MacNeil advocated for a campaign to increase Canada\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination rate in articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/2021\/07\/12\/vaccination-rate-near-90-vital-to-control-covid-spread-brock-prof.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The St.Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/st-catharines-immunology-professor-says-90-per-cent-vaccination-rate-will-be-needed-to-reach-covid-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insauga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock Student Health Services hosts vaccine clinic for students:<\/strong> An article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/brock-student-health-services-hosts-drop-in-clinic-for-students-1.15625822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> discussed a drop-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic that Brock University hosted for its students. An article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/vaccination-clinic-returns-to-brock-university-in-st-catharines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insauga<\/a> highlighted the upcoming return of a Niagara Region Public Health COVID-19 vaccination clinic to the University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock University hosting virtual choir auditions:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Music and Artistic Director of Brock University Choral Activities Rachel Rensink-Hoff was featured in articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheartradio.ca\/610cktb\/news\/brock-university-hosting-virtual-choir-auditions-1.15625731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/the-sounds-of-music-returning-to-st-catharines-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insauga<\/a> about online auditions that will take place for two Brock choirs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language, brain and thinking process:<\/strong> Professor of Psychology Veena Dwivedi spoke about whether language influences thinking in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/eplog.media\/episode\/ep-83-language-brain-thinking-process-feat-veena-d-e8a75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Artists podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to sport brings excitement to Brock University athletes:<\/strong> Members of Brock\u2019s women\u2019s rugby team spoke to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports\/niagara-region\/2021\/07\/12\/return-to-sport-brings-excitement-to-brock-university-athletes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The St. Catharines Standard<\/a> <\/em>about how they felt about returning to play this fall.<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:universitycom@brocku.ca?subject=Brock%20University%20Media%20Clips%20Suggestion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">universitycom@brocku.ca<\/a><\/em><\/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":73251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,7,37,6,38],"tags":[3668,4437,7488,384,522,4566,46,5982,3492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73244"}],"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=73244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73252,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73244\/revisions\/73252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}