{"id":89470,"date":"2023-11-24T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=89470"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T21:54:25","slug":"in-the-news-classroom-meditation-athlete-mental-health-hospital-spending-and-downtown-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/11\/in-the-news-classroom-meditation-athlete-mental-health-hospital-spending-and-downtown-hoops\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS: Classroom meditation, athlete mental health, hospital spending and downtown hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed meditation in the classroom, the mental health of student-athletes, the public&#8217;s perception of hospital executive spending and Brock&#8217;s Paint the Meridian Red doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mindfulness and meditation: a new way to engage the classroom:\u00a0<\/strong>Brock Associate Professor of Health Sciences Pauli Gardner spoke about mindfulness practices implemented in the classroom in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/career-advice\/career-advice-article\/mindfulness-and-meditation-a-new-way-to-engage-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article by <em>University Affairs<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock, CMHA Niagara address student athlete mental health in pilot project research:\u00a0<\/strong>A joint pilot project between Brock University and the Canadian Mental Health Association that aims to better support the mental health of student-athletes was the focus of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/life\/health-wellness\/brock-cmha-niagara-address-student-athlete-mental-health-in-pilot-project-research\/article_7319e44d-ea01-544a-834f-f9bc08a9ab07.html#tncms-source=login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em> article<\/a> that featured Kinesiology Professor Philip Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>London hospital board didn&#8217;t OK executives&#8217; $470K overseas trips:\u00a0<\/strong>Duncan Koerber, Assistant Professor in Brock&#8217;s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, spoke to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lfpress.com\/news\/local-news\/london-hospital-board-didnt-ok-executives-470k-overseas-trips#:~:text=The%20foreign%20travel%20by%20London,the%20fallout%20of%20the%20controversy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>London Free Press<\/em><\/a> about the public&#8217;s perception of an overseas trip taken by executives from London Health Sciences Centre that has been called into question.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Badgers going downtown for hoops: <\/strong>Paint the Meridian Red, the Brock basketball doubleheader taking over the Meridian Centre on Saturday, Nov. 25, was featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/sports\/niagara-region\/badgers-going-downtown-for-hoops\/article_ca7b1da5-1742-5ac5-891e-2f16c702d16c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed meditation in the classroom, the mental health of student-athletes, the public&#8217;s perception of hospital executive spending and Brock&#8217;s Paint the Meridian Red doubleheader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6,38,58],"tags":[9549,1512,15,4819,11696,4327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89470"}],"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=89470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89474,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89470\/revisions\/89474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}