{"id":9293,"date":"2011-04-06T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2011-04-06T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T19:23:08","slug":"student-research-showcased-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/04\/student-research-showcased-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Student research showcased this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9294\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9294\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9294 \" title=\"Julie Stevens, left, chats with Brett Piercey, Maralee Drake, Bryan Shore and Courtney Keogh\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/studentcolloquium.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Stevens, left, organizer of this weekend's Student Research Colloquium, chats with students organizers Brett Piercey, Maralee Drake, Bryan Shore and Courtney Keogh.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Stevens, left, organizer of this weekend&#39;s Student Research Colloquium, chats with student organizers Brett Piercey, Maralee Drake, Bryan Shore and Courtney Keogh.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students will present their research in areas like sport, tourism and health studies at an annual colloquium at Brock this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The full-day <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/conference-events\/student-research-colloquium\" target=\"_blank\">Student Research Colloquium<\/a> on Saturday, April 9 will include a keynote address and oral and poster presentations from more than 30 presenters. In addition to Brock students, presenters will be from universities such as Windsor, Waterloo and Concordia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have recognized a growing number of undergraduate and graduate students within our related disciplines who have strong research interests and abilities,\u201d said Julie Stevens, associate professor of Sport Management and organizing chair. \u201cWe also realize that serving the needs of these students is critical for the successful growth of our field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Cawley, program manager for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcconnellfoundation.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">J. W. McConnell Family Foundation<\/a>, will present the keynote speech. The foundation funds a number of youth, art, sport and community programs that encourage people to have \u201ca sense of belonging and contribute as active citizens to improving the wellbeing of all,\u201d the foundation\u2019s website says.<\/p>\n<p>Cawley has 25 years of experience in the non-profit sector. His keynote will examine lessons from the foundation\u2019s work on social innovation, and exploring the skills and values people need to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.<\/p>\n<p>The colloquium will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Sankey Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"mailto:jstevens@brocku.ca\">jstevens@brocku.ca<\/a> or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/conference-events\/student-research-colloquium\" target=\"_blank\">the colloquium website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will present their research in areas like sport, tourism and health studies at an annual colloquium at Brock this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293"}],"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=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9295,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}