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  • Brock prof aids with new Mars discovery

    With Mars still home to many unknowns, each discovery made on the Red Planet draws a new sense of excitement from Brock University scientist Mariek Schmidt.

    The thrill of new findings has again bubbled up for the Associate Professor of Earth Sciences while analyzing data from the Mars Curiosity rover. Schmidt was part of a team of Canadian researchers who recently released a report suggesting that a large area on Mars not only once contained water, but also housed other conditions that would have allowed micro-organisms to live.

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  • National interest bubbles for science of sparkling wine

    With 90 local wineries now making sparkling wine, it’s not just fizz-loving consumers that are taking notice of the surging sales of the product. The increasingly popular wine — and related research underway at Brock’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) — has also attracted the attention of the oldest scientific society in Canada.

    Belinda Kemp, CCOVI senior oenologist, gave a presentation for the prestigious Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIS) in Toronto Sept. 14 on the science of sparkling wine. The RCIS works to enhance public awareness and understanding of science, while creating an environment in which science can flourish and contribute to all aspects of Canadian life and society.

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  • FMS 2017/2018 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship

    NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s   

    Nico Bonanno, Chemistry, “Design, synthesis and coordination chemistry of new redox­active ligands in molecule­based magnetism”

    Andrew Kenig, Mathematics and Statistics, “New Methods for Quantile Regression”

    Jenny Tieu, Mathematics & Statistics, “On Quantile Regression and Extreme Value Distributions”

     

    NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral

    Lyndon Duff, Biological Sciences, “Foraging patterns of subordinate females in the eastern carpenter bees, Xylocopa virginica and the influence of nestmate chemical cues on foraging”

     

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  • Five Brock alumni featured in wine magazine

    When LCBO Vintages magazine wanted to run a feature showcasing the labour of love involved in crafting local wine, they turned to five Brock graduates-turned winemakers to share their insights on the process.

    Emma Garner (BSc, ’04), Thirty Bench Wine Makers; Shiraz Mottiar (BSc, ’00), Malivoire Wine Company; Rob Power (BSc ’00), Creekside Estate Winery; and Ilya Senchuk (BSc, ’03) and his wife Nadia Senchuk (MBA’07), Leaning Post, were all featured in the September edition of the publication. With the exception of Nadia, all of the featured winemakers are graduates of the Oenology and Viticulture program in Brock’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI).

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  • Brock’s CCOVI helps Grape and Wine crowd educate its senses

    Brock’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) raised a glass to celebrate its 20th year partnering with the Niagara Grape and Wine Festival on Saturday, Sept. 16. Continuing the long-standing tradition, CCOVI hosted three of its popular Educate your Senses wine and cheese seminars in Montebello Park in downtown St. Catharines, with some of the sold-out sessions attracting wine lovers from across Ontario, the U.S. and even Australia.

    CCOVI will offer three more seminars at the festival on Saturday, Sept. 23.

    Educate your Senses Schedule, Saturday, Sept. 23:

    2 p.m. Chris Protonentis, Coyote’s Run

    3 p.m. Brock alumni Richie Roberts, Fielding Estate

    4 p.m. Marc Bradshaw, Strewn

    Location: Roy T. Adams Bandshell, Montebello Park, St. Catharines

    Cost: $3.50 per token, two tokens per seminar. Brock alumni will receive a free wine glass with registration and receive half off the seminar cost. Tokens are available for purchase at Montebello Park throughout each weekend. Registration for seminars will be at the Roy T. Adams Bandshell only. Seminars run rain or shine.

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  • Tour to explore geologic history of campus

    With a little bit of knowledge and a lot of imagination, Earth Sciences Professor Francine McCarthy plans to help curious minds uncover the geologic past of the Brock campus. During an hourlong guided walking tour of the University property, held as part of Science Literacy Week, McCarthy will provide insight into the geology of the landscape.

    WHEN: Tuesday, September 19 from 5-6pm (arrive early)

    WHERE: Meet in the James A. Gibson Library, Matheson Learning Commons

    ADMISSION: Free

    NOTE: Wear appropriate clothing and footwear as the tour will run rain or shine

    More information about the tour and programming for Science Literacy Week here

     

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  • Schmon Tower lobby passageway fully restored

    At 8 a.m. on  Monday Sept. 18, a new corridor will enable people to access Schmon Tower elevators from both sides of the Tower lobby.

    After three months of taking basement or rooftop detours to reach elevators that would get them to the upper Tower floors, pedestrians will again be able to reach the lobby-level elevators directly from either side of the Tower.

    They will also be able to fully traverse the Tower lobby, between the Matheson Learning Commons to the west and, to the east, the Thistle vestibule/Tim Horton’s kiosk area near Mackenzie Chown Complex. This will be available during hours when the James A. Gibson Library is open.

    The lobby washrooms will remain out of service while the Brock LINC construction project continues.

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  • Brock cancer research labs will be open for tours after Sunday’s Terry Fox Run

    Brock University is hosting the St. Catharines Terry Fox Run this weekend, and it’s giving the community a chance to tour the labs where critical cancer research is taking place. Two labs are home to research funded directly by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) and a third is separately funded, but also conducts important cancer research.

    WHEN: Sunday, September 17 – lab tours will start at 10:45 a.m

    NOTE: Participants can sign up for tours at the run registration table, but space is limited.

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  • Mathematics and Statistics graduate student among first group of International Student Ambassadors

    This year, 1,777 international students – including 1,160 undergrads and 617 students in graduate programs – have chosen Brock.

    Second-year Mathematics and Statistics graduate student, Evans Boadi is among the first group of 10 ambassadors introduced at the International Open House including, part of the newly created Brock International Student Ambassadors program, which launched this year.

    Selected students become ambassadors for the University and in exchange, the students get to pay domestic tuition rates, rather than international. Read the full story here

     

     

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  • Brock researchers awarded $3.8 million NSERC funding, up $1.4 million from last year

    Almost two dozen Brock researchers – the majority from the Faculty of Mathematics & Science – received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The $3.8 million in funding under NSERC’s 2017 competition for the Discovery research programs, is more than $1.4 million over last year’s results.

    Brock’s funding includes Discovery Grants, Discovery Development Grants, Discovery Accelerator Supplements and the Northern Research Supplement, as well as master’s and doctoral student awards. Read the full story and the names of all recipients here

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