{"id":96088,"date":"2024-09-30T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=96088"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:22:38","slug":"vpmi-showcases-industry-researcher-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/09\/vpmi-showcases-industry-researcher-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"VPMI showcases industry, researcher collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government representatives from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago learned about Brock\u2019s industry-driven research during a recent campus visit.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon and His Excellency Dennis Moses, High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Canada, toured the Brock-Niagara Validation, Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute (VPMI) on Tuesday, Sept. 24. The innovative institute connects industry partners and with state-of-the-art equipment and the expertise of Brock researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Also joining the tour were representatives from the St. Catharines and Regional Municipality of Niagara Twinning and Mundilization Association, which promotes co-operation at the civic, institutional, organizational and individual citizen level between St. Catharines and Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>The two communities were officially twinned in 1968. Since then, Brock has developed a strong partnership with the Twinning Association, allowing the University to provide educational opportunities for Trinidadian students and foster cross-cultural exchange on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government representatives from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago learned about Brock\u2019s industry-driven research during a recent campus visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794],"tags":[159,12458,11363,8207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96088"}],"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=96088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96099,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96088\/revisions\/96099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}