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• Brock’s Goodman School of Business wins prestigious competition title

  Tuesday, January 10, 2017 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: R00002 – 10 January 2017

  One of the most coveted trophies in Canadian university business competitions has a new home: Brock University’s Goodman School of Business.

  Goodman students captured the top-prize School of the Year award in Ottawa on Sunday, Jan. 8 at the JDCC case competition, which is central Canada’s largest undergraduate business school competition with 700 students from 12 institutions in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

  When the bus carrying Team Goodman pulled on to the St. Catharines campus late Monday afternoon, the 40-plus students spilled out proudly carrying their new trophy.
  The JDCC, often dubbed the “business school Olympics,” is actually three days of exhaustive competitions encompassing academic cases in eight fields of business, parliamentary style debates, sports tournaments, social competitions and charity contributions.

  Goodman students took first place for both finance and marketing, as well as the all-encompassing Academic Cup. They also placed second in sports, debate, international business and entrepreneurship, and finished third in the participation and Management Information Systems events.

  The School of the Year award takes all aspects of the competition into consideration and includes volunteer hours and the nearly $1,200 raised in funds for charity by the team.
   
  “We are so proud of our students’ successes,” said Goodman School of Business Interim Dean Barry Wright.

  “These results are a true testament to the hard work and perseverance they have put forward over the past semester. We are honoured to hold this title and to have others recognize their passion, excellence and Goodman spirit as well,” he said.

  Brock’s 2017 School of the Year victory comes after the prize had been won for seven consecutive years by another Ontario university.

  Under the guidance of team captain Dan Giddings (BBA ’16), the Goodman team was well-supported by staff, faculty and alumni who devoted hours to preparing students for the competition. Faculty members Eric Dolansky, Wesley Helms, Teju Herath, Glenn Skrubbeltrang, Lewis Stevenson and Peter Yannopoulos, and staff and alumni members Brittany Smith and Alyssa Freeman, coached teams and the final results prompted a steady stream of tweets from proud Goodman graduates, many of whom also dedicated many coaching hours last semester.

  Goodman graduates and JDC Central veterans Sohail Ahmed, Sean Bouwers, Julia Chiarelli, Scott Darlow, Bryan Dizon, James Fioretti, Matt Leslie, Zurain Malik, Anthony Marotta, Jordan Menchella, James Riley Osler Percheson, Brittany Smith, Dayna Stephenson, Derek Visser and Aqib Zia all supported this year’s Goodman JDCC team by devoting some of their weekends last semester to the cause.

  Making up the full Goodman JDCC team were:
  Accounting: Namrata Mistry, Shivam Patel, Amber Williams
  Business Strategy: Jenny Doan, Max Muria Courchesne, Mikayla Zolis
  Entrepreneurship: Justin Enns, Nick Hollard, Srujal Patel
  Management Information Systems: Christian Mindo, Vik Narula, Sean Pereira
  International Business: Farook Al-Yassin, Zach Ferry, Monica Upadhyay
  Human Resources: Emma Lahay, Bianca Read, Amy Rudnicki
  Marketing: Bianca Koop, Ashley Howard
  Finance: Jake Berec, Summer Gullage, Jacqueline Kope
  Debate: Holly Arruda, Josh Hall, Mitch Ledgerwood, Dylan Pereira
  Social: Spencer Bird, Rosie Di Matteo, Daniel Garner, Alexa Ogilvie-Robinson
  Sports: Julia Baird-Oryschak, Max Burtcher, Mitch Cowan, Shreeta Dhingani, Aidan Gilhula, Leanne Karat, Tomash Konefal, Will Spence
  Godparents: Max Muria Courchesne, Kristy-Anne Wytenburg
  Volunteers: Daniel Danaher, Kartika Gaur, Yash Kapadia
  Captain: Dan Giddings

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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• It’s officially winter: How to stay safe during cold-weather activities

  Thursday, January 05, 2017 | By Brock University

  EXPERT ADVISORY: R00261 – 21 December 2016

  Whether you’re an out-of-shape snow shoveler, a hearty winter runner or a New Year’s Day polar bear dipper, Brock University’s Dr. Freeze has advice on how to deal with frigid temperatures.
   
  Professor Stephen Cheung, who runs a research lab at Brock that can simulate  -30 degree temperatures, says precautions need to be taken when doing physical activity outdoors.
   
  As a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Ergonomics, Cheung is the country’s leading expert on how the body handles extreme temperatures.

  He listed four common winter activities and gave his advice for those venturing outdoors.
   
  Snow shoveling:
  “With many of the stories you hear about people having heart attacks when shoveling snow, it’s not because of the cold, it’s because of the high exertion,” Cheung said. “It really comes down to people who may not regularly exercise going out and trying to clear the snow as rapidly as possible.”
  He said people who don’t often exercise need to take it easy when shoveling and treat it as the weightlifting workout that it is.

  Outdoor workouts:
  “For people who still want to get outside and exercise by running or biking or cross-country skiing, besides needing to be careful not to slip and slide, from a physical standpoint you want to keep a steady pace,” Cheung said.
  “It’s safe to exercise, but rather than doing those really hard efforts like intervals where you’re building up sweat and then cooling off, go at a light, but steady pace.”
  He said research has shown that heavy breathing in extremely cold temperatures isn’t going to damage your lungs.
  “The body is very good at warming up the air before it hits your lungs,” Cheung said.

  Polar Bear dips:
  There’s a long tradition of stripping down to bathing suits and jumping into a cold lake on New Year’s Day.
  Cheung said for those with no heart issues, the brief cold-water plunges are not particularly dangerous, but it’s important to avoid drinking alcohol before you try them.
  “That’s the worst thing you can do because it’s going to cause the blood vessels in your skin to open up so you’re going to lose more heat that way,” he said. “Alcohol will also decrease your perception of cold, so you’re not going to take the simple precautions after of trying to get yourself dry and warm.”

  Walking on ice:
  “A very big danger at this time of year is going out on the water before it freezes,” Cheung said. “It’s extremely dangerous falling into cold water. Water conducts heat 25 times faster than air, so even if it’s shallow and you’re just falling into a stream, your clothes are going to be wet and it’s going to cause you to lose heat a lot faster.”
  Cheung said if you fall into cold water, it’s important to immediately get into dry clothing, “otherwise those wet clothes will suck away heat very, very fast.”

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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