{"id":74826,"date":"2021-10-22T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=74826"},"modified":"2021-10-22T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T21:00:24","slug":"brock-media-clips-for-oct-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/10\/brock-media-clips-for-oct-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock media clips for Oct. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of the media attention Brock University received recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under the CGI? Scientists use virtual reality to get people to care more about oceans: <\/strong>Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor in Brock\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, was featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thecurrent\/the-current-for-oct-19-2021-1.6216371\/under-the-cgi-scientists-use-virtual-reality-to-get-people-to-care-more-about-oceans-1.6216610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on CBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thecurrent\/the-current-for-oct-19-2021-1.6216371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC\u2019s The Current with Matt Galloway<\/a> Tuesday, Oct. 19 about Brock research around ocean empathy.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Six Canadian university students on how they&#8217;re fighting climate change: <\/strong>Two Brock University students were among a group of students highlighted in a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/environment\/six-canadian-university-students-on-how-theyre-fighting-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maclean\u2019s <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/environment\/six-canadian-university-students-on-how-theyre-fighting-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magazine article<\/a> for the steps they\u2019re taking to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>African elephants evolved tusklessness amazingly fast: <\/strong>Kiyoko Gotanda, Brock University Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, was quoted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/10\/elephants-poaching-war-tusklessness\/620447\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an <em>Atlantic<\/em> article<\/a> about the evolution of Gorongosa elephants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Six Nations Elected Chief receives honorary doctorate:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theturtleislandnews.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/former-six-nations-elected-chief-receives-honorary-doctorate\/\">Turtle Island News<\/a><\/em> picked up the story about Indigenous leader Ava Hill being awarded an honorary degree from Brock University during Fall Convocation on Friday, Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toronto community group looks to increase Black property ownership in Little Jamaica: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/toronto-community-group-looks-to-increase-black-property-ownership-in-little-jamaica-1.5628260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CTV News Toronto<\/a><\/em> covered the story of three Brock alumni \u2014 Romaine Baker, Dane Williams and Theo Adje \u2014 who started Black Urbanism Toronto with the goal of increasing the amount of commercial property owned by Black businesses in the Toronto\u2019s Little Jamaica neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\">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":18,"featured_media":74827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[3333,10767,49,156,296,7417,10769,6136,2546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74826"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74829,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74826\/revisions\/74829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}