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  • Brock University and Town of Lincoln to launch Living Lab partnership

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | By

    Brock University will embark on an unprecedented mission with one of its host communities next week, when it partners with the Town of Lincoln on a project that will give the Town important support for planning sustainable growth, and provide valuable experiential learning opportunities for Brock students and researchers.

    Brock’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre and the Town of Lincoln will officially launch their new Living Lab collaborative project on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Vineland Estates Winery. The event will be held in the winery’s Carriage House starting at 5 p.m. with remarks to begin at 5:15 p.m.

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  • Thousands ‘Experience’ Brock at Ontario Universities’ Fair

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | By

    From the spacious, revamped booth to the friendly team of staff, students and faculty members on hand to answer questions, Brock’s display at the Ontario Universities’ Fair from Sept. 22 to 24, made a very good impression on the high school students and their families in attendance.

    With more than 139,000 people in attendance this year, OUF is the biggest exhibition of post-secondary institutions in Canada, making it the single-most important event on the annual recruiting calendar.

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  • Brock prof aids with new Mars discovery

    Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | By

    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

    Monday, September 25, 2017 | By

    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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  • September 29: Chemistry Seminar Series – Yurij Mozharivskyj

    Monday, September 25, 2017 | By

    Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series

    Yurij Mozharivskyj, PhD.
    Professor of Chemistry
    Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
    McMaster University

    DATE: Friday, September 29

    TIME: 12pm

    LOCATION: H313

    Sept 29- Chemistry Seminar Series – Yurij Mozharivskyj

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  • FMS 2017/2018 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship

    Monday, September 25, 2017 | By

    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

    Thursday, September 21, 2017 | By

    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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  • September 29: Earth Sciences Guest Speaker Series

    Wednesday, September 20, 2017 | By

    The Department of Earth Sciences Guest Speaker Series
    featuring Dr. Peter Putnam
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Central European Petroleum Ltd.

    DATE: Friday, September 29

    TIME: 1pm – 2pm

    LOCATION: Mackenzie Chown D308

    Earth Sciences Guest Speaker Series – Peter Putnam

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  • October 6: Chemistry Seminar Series – Joe B. Gilroy

    Wednesday, September 20, 2017 | By

    Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series

    Joe B. Gilroy
    Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials
    The University of Western Ontario

    DATE: Friday, October 6

    TIME: 12pm

    LOCATION: H313

    October 6: Joe B Gilroy

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

    Tuesday, September 19, 2017 | By

    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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