Articles from:May 2019

• From making ice cream to solving murders, teens dive into science during Brock event

  Monday, May 06, 2019 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 6 May 2019 – R00077

  There’s no better way to get a taste of science at the university level than to get into the labs and experiment.

  And that’s just what dozens of students from Ontario high schools will do during the annual Scientifically Yours conference being held at Brock University Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10.

  The signature event will mark its 30th year by welcoming teens to campus to participate in hands-on activities meant to showcase potential post-secondary pathways and future careers in science-related fields.

  About 60 Grade 10 and 11 students from southern Ontario are expected to attend the two-day event, presented by Brock’s Faculty of Mathematics and Science.

  They will participate in fun and immersive projects that touch on various aspects of science. Past favourites will have students exploring what makes juice and pop drinks so tasty, building their own space invaders game through basic computer programming and creating a genetic profile of themselves to learn about DNA fingerprinting.

  New to this year’s lineup of experiences is a blood typing project that will have students learning about how blood is classified into different types, and how that information is used to solve forensic mysteries and identify donors during medical emergencies.

  The scenario-based activity will see students act out two different roles: the first as a detective who must use only science skills to analyze a crime scene and attempt to solve a murder, and the second as a hematologist who must find compatible blood types for a life-saving transfusion.

  Students will also get the chance to meet and mingle with a variety of scientific mentors during dinner Thursday night to learn more about their various careers and scientific fields, including environmental sciences, medicine, statistics, neurosciences, computer science and psychology.

  “For the past 30 years, Scientifically Yours has been sharing with youths the fulfilling and rewarding paths science can take you on,” said Senior Lab Demonstrator Christene Carpenter-Cleland, who co-ordinates the conference alongside Senior Lab Demonstrator Poling Bork. “The conference helps show high school students that pursuing an education and future career in science is within reach and that the staff and faculty at Brock are here to help them along the way.”

  More information on the event is available on the Scientifically Yours website.

   

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University [email protected], 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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• Book publishing division launched by Brock’s Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

  Friday, May 03, 2019 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 3 May 2019 – R00076

  Brock’s Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) has partnered with The Salon für Kunstbuch in Austria to launch an international book publishing division.

  The new Small Walker Press will celebrate the publication of its first two books at an official launch event on Thursday, May 9 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in the main lobby of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines.

  This year’s books were published under the theme of environmental degradation and include Inland, by Associate Professor of Visual Arts Shawn Serfas with creative writing by Atlanta-based New York Times journalist Richard Fausset and an essay by Associate Professor of Visual Arts Derek Knight, and The Quarry, by Associate Professor Adam Dickinson and artist Lorène Bourgeois.

  Noelle Allen, Publisher for Hamilton-based literary press Wolsak and Wynn, will be the guest speaker for the event.

  The launch is free and all are encouraged to attend.

  “The University is the ideal place to promote book culture,” said STAC Director Catherine Parayre. “Working with different authors and artists to bring about the completion of a book project is a fully interdisciplinary challenge that is rewarding intellectually, but also a wonderful opportunity to work with expert graphic designers.”

  Headed by STAC, the Small Walker Press addresses the research and creative interests of faculty members at Brock’s MIWSFPA and engages with authors, artists and academics alike to produce small, innovative publications.

  Funded by the generous support of the Walker Cultural Leader Series and the late Marilyn I. Walker, the press publishes collaborative work that brings together authors and artists from the Niagara region, as well as those across Canada and internationally.

  Parayre and Knight serve as its editors; Bernhard Cella, from The Salon für Kunstbuch in Vienna, Austria, is the press’s book designer.

  Inland provides two distinct reflections on pollution and the consequences of human intervention on natural resources. It features work created by Serfas for his 2016 exhibition Inland, curated by Stuart Reid at Rodman Hall Art Centre, and creative writing by Fausset, whose work includes extensive coverage of the devastating environmental and socio-economic impacts of Hurricane Katrina.

  The Quarry offers a reflection on a walk that Dickinson and Bourgeois embarked upon through the Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site on the Niagara Escarpment in 2018. Dickinson contributes a poem for the book, which is accompanied by drawings by Bourgeois.

  “We are very much looking forward to sharing these books with the public at the launch on May 9,” Parayre said.

  The Small Walker Press is predicated on, and values, interdisciplinary co-operation, the exploration of image and text, and seeks to contribute to and participate in the promotion of book culture.

  Publications will include exhibition catalogues, artist’s books, chapbooks, short essay format and creative writing as well as online art folios or editions, and recorded sound work or interviews.

  Publications may be in English, French or other languages and books will be available for purchase at the launch.

  They will also be available at Rodman Hall Art Centre, the Brock Campus Store, and The Salon für Kunstbuch in Vienna, Austria.

  Learn more about the Small Walker Press by visiting the STAC website.

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University [email protected], 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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