Media releases

• Goodman School of Business celebrating expansion Friday

  Monday, September 19, 2016 | By Brock University

  MEDIA ADVISORY: R00196 – 14 September 2016

  The Brock community is invited to a celebration of the Goodman School of Business expansion Friday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. in front of Schmon Tower.

  The $22-million project started construction this month, with Cooper Construction preparing the site and staging area between Taro Hall and the Student Alumni Centre.

  Over the next two years, the project will see nearly 29,000 square feet of new space added, in addition to the renovation and remodeling of the existing classrooms, offices and common spaces of Taro Hall.

  Members of the media are invited to join Brock faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members at the start of construction celebration Friday.

  Among the speakers will be Jim Bradley, MPP, St. Catharines; John Suk, Chair, Brock University Board of Trustees; Brian Hutchings, Acting President; Ned Goodman; Barry Wright, Interim Dean, Goodman School of Business; and Jason Sparaga, Chair, Goodman School of Business Fundraising Committee.

  What: Goodman School of Business Expansion Celebration
  When: Friday, Sept. 16, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
  Where: Large tent in front of Schmon Tower

  BY THE NUMBERS:
  $22 million – total capital cost of project
  29,000 – number of square feet to be added to the existing 50,000 square feet which will be completely renovated
  5,000 – square feet of new teaching space
  3,500 – square feet of new networking and social space in the atrium
  6 – number of new classrooms being added

  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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• Brock researchers receive $3.7 million funding from federal granting agency SSHRC

  Monday, September 19, 2016 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: R00194 – 9 September 2016

  Brock University psychologist Michael Busseri predicts that a new indicator may be popping up in many countries’ statistics in the near future: Gross National Happiness.

  Coined in Bhutan in the early 1970s, the idea is to estimate peoples’ sense of well-being “with the growing understanding that a happy society that feels they have meaning, purpose and satisfaction is also a more productive society,” says Busseri.

  Busseri studies how various categories of people – young, old, optimistic, pessimistic, happy, sad – think about their lives over time and how they view whether or not life will get better in the future.

  The Professor of Psychology plans to examine countries’ economic and social indicators – gross domestic product, infant mortality, education, access to democratic institutions, etc. – to see if there is a relationship between peoples’ beliefs about their well-being and how the country they are living in is performing economically and socially over time.

  “Understanding this at a global level may help inform social policies or at the very least give us information about society and how it sees itself changing over time,” says Busseri. “This information may be useful not only to lay persons but also to governments.”

  Busseri is among 18 researchers at Brock University who were awarded funds from the federal granting agency Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

  On September 9, SSHRC announced this year’s awarding of research grants for post-secondary researchers across Canada. Brock was awarded more than $3.7 million in three competitions for the 2016 funding year.

  Subjects areas of other grants awarded to Brock University include: transparency and accountability of mining activities in West Africa; the meaning of deep and sustained friendships for people living with dementia; the role of emotion in language comprehension; and employee entrepreneurial behaviours in the workplace.

  “Our researchers continue to expand the boundaries of society’s knowledge and understanding of a wide variety of issues, which leads to the improvement of the lives of many,” says Steven Renzetti, Interim Vice-President Research.

  “This latest round of SSHRC funding is extremely important as we strengthen our research intensiveness and further develop our reputation as Canada’s newest comprehensive university,” says Renzetti.

  See story in The Brock News. (LINK).

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:
   
  * Cathy Majtenyi, Research Communications/Media Relations Specialist, cmajtenyi@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5789 or 905-321-0566

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