In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed the total solar eclipse, food insecurity in Niagara, hunger strikes in Ontario jails and the death of OJ Simpson.<\/p>\n
Brock experts talk total social eclipse:<\/strong> Associate Professor of Physics Thad Harroun spoke to the Hamilton Spectator<\/a>, <\/em>YourTV Niagara<\/a>, the St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a>\u00a0about Brock’s Eclipse on the Escarpment event and the once-in-a-lifetime celestial phenomenon. Professor of Educational Studies David Hutchison spoke to the St. Catharines Standard<\/a> <\/em>and to Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about the educational impact of the eclipse and his own experience viewing one as a child. Associate Professor of Visual Arts Amy Friend and Professor of Visual Arts Keri Cronin spoke with CBC Radio One<\/a> about photographing the eclipse. Professor of Earth Sciences Mariek Schmidt spoke with CTV News<\/a> from Brock’s eclipse event. Assistant Professor of Physics Barak Shoshany also spoke to YourTV Niagara<\/a> about the science behind the total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n \u2018Unprecedented\u2019 number of Niagara residents using food banks: Brock University brief: <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Political Science Joanne Heritz spoke to the St. Catharines Standard<\/a><\/em>, AM900 CMHL<\/a> and Newstalk 610 CKTB<\/a> about a new national school food program and the Niagara Community Observatory’s latest policy brief on food insecurity.<\/p>\n Inmates in Ontario jails held at least 50 hunger strikes in 2023. Experts say the true figure could be much higher:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Labour Studies Jordan House spoke CTV News<\/a> to about hunger strikes in Ontario jails.<\/p>\n Passing of OJ Simpson; Succumbed to his battle with cancer: <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Sport Management Taylor McKee spoke with Global News Radio 980 CFPL<\/a> and Talk Radio AM640<\/a> about the death of OJ Simpson.<\/p>\n Newstalk 610 CKTB broadcasts from Brock: <\/strong>Niagara in the Morning with Tim Denis broadcast from Brock\u2019s main campus on Monday, April 8. Throughout the morning, Denis spoke with Matt Melnyk<\/a>, Director of Student Recruitment; Lesley Rigg<\/a>, President and Vice-Chancellor, and Tim Kenyon, Interim Provost and Vice-President, Academic; Shahryar Rahnamayan<\/a>, Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Yousef Haj-Ahmad Department of Engineering; and Julia Baird<\/a>, Associate Professor in Brock\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre and Department of Geography and Tourism Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In recent media appearances, Brock experts discussed the total solar eclipse, food insecurity in Niagara, hunger strikes in Ontario jails and the death of OJ Simpson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":92197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,40,37,6,41,38],"tags":[2941,3803,885,6805,110,4104,4753,480,13282,7488,98,384,348,522,8198,8767,3897,11881,852,8281,81,13146,10657,3843,5624,12583,1202,11217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92193"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92203,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193\/revisions\/92203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}