Media releases

• Brock’s Homecoming Grape Stomp returns Friday

  Tuesday, September 20, 2022 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 20 September 2022 – R0106

  After three years waiting on the vine, Brock University’s messiest tradition is ripe for its return.

  The Homecoming Grape Stomp will see more than 500 Brock students and alumni slip and slide amongst two metric tonnes of Concord grapes on Friday, Sept. 23 from noon to 1 p.m.

  Participants are encouraged to bring non-perishable food donations for Community Care St. Catharines and Thorold, and to dress in costume as they prepare to paint Jubilee Court purple.

  Grape Stomp — which University Affairs magazine has called one of the best university traditions in Canada — is part of a packed lineup of events for Brock’s Homecoming celebration this weekend, which includes Friday’s Steel Blade Classic hockey game and Saturday’s Brock Night at the Niagara Grape and Wine Festival, among others.

  “We’re ready to bring Grape Stomp back in a big way,” says Kristen Smith, Brock’s Manager, Community Experience and Leadership. “We’re excited to have new students experience this tradition for the first time and for upper-year students who had this on their Brock bucket list to be able to check this off in 2022.”

  The event has long been one of the University’s most popular traditions, with hundreds taking advantage of the unique and fun opportunity to let fruit fly.

  “It’s not every day you get to stomp grapes and make memories in this way,” Smith says. “It’s also a chance for people to celebrate being in Niagara, in the wine region, with the grape harvest now underway.”

  The day will also include live music by Vinyl Flux and a free barbecue for the Brock community, while supplies last.

  To register for Grape Stomp, visit the event website.

  For a full list of Homecoming events, visit brocku.ca/homecoming

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Doug Hunt, Communications and Media Relations Specialist, Brock University dhunt2@brocku.ca or 905-941-6209

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• Grand opening set for Brock’s new Nursing simulation lab

  Friday, September 16, 2022 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 16 September 2022 – R0105

  From the equipment to the simulated patients in need of care, each aspect of Brock University’s new state-of-the-art Nursing Clinical Simulation Lab is set up to mirror a hospital unit.

  The new facility, which enables students to gain valuable hands-on experience and further develop their skills as they prepare for clinical placements in health care, will officially open its doors next week.

  A grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held in the lab, located across Glenridge Avenue from the main campus in East Academic Building 3, on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 3 p.m.

  The event will include a formal introduction to the space as well as guided tours and demonstrations of the lab’s simulation equipment led by undergraduate students, lab co-ordinators and faculty. The lab’s high-fidelity simulators represent patients from across the lifespan and from diverse populations.

  For more than two decades, Brock University has been educating future health-care workers through its nationally recognized Nursing program. Last year, Brock Nursing experienced unprecedented growth, with its undergraduate program expanding even further through increased enrolment this September.

  The new Nursing Clinical Simulation Lab was constructed to accommodate this rapid growth, joining two existing Nursing labs on campus.

  “As the demand for nurses across the province continues to grow, Brock is responding by providing learning opportunities to future graduates who will be able to fulfil shortages in our hospitals and respond to the changing health needs of our communities,” says Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Dean Peter Tiidus. “The new Nursing Clinical Simulation Lab, with its cutting-edge technology, provides a safe learning environment for students to master both basic and life-saving skills that will allow them to have a profound impact as they begin their health-care careers.”

  For more information on Brock’s Nursing programs, visit the Department of Nursing website.

  What: Brock University Nursing Clinical Simulation Lab grand opening
  When: Thursday, Sept. 22 at 3 p.m.
  Where: East Academic Building 3, Brock University

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Doug Hunt, Communications and Media Relations Specialist, Brock University dhunt2@brocku.ca or 905-941-6209

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