Articles tagged with: Students

  • PHOTO GALLERY: Community gathers for Brock’s inaugural World Water Day Celebration

    Friday, March 22, 2024 | By

    FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024 | by  | Reposted from The Brock News

    Brock students Damian Haitas and Isaiah Boekestyn discuss a standing poster display.

    Geography and Education student Damian Haitas (left) and Isaiah Boekestyn, a Kinesiology major and Geography minor, discussed the GEOG/TOUR 4P83 Photovoice display at the first annual World Water Day Celebration.

    The Rankin Family Pavilion Atrium saw a flood of interested students, staff, faculty members and community visitors on Friday, March 22 at Brock’s World Water Day Celebration.

    Hosted by Brock’s Water Resilience Lab and Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, the inaugural event featured a research showcase, educational exhibits, artistic displays, interactive stations — including a bottled water versus tap water taste-testing station courtesy of Niagara Region ­— and community organization booths with job and volunteer opportunities as well as valuable information about the many ways that water affects the Niagara region.

    View the photo gallery here

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  • For the love of Pi

    Thursday, March 14, 2024 | By

    THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2024 | by Colleen Patterson

    A woman hands a university student a mini box of pie while two other students are already eating pies nearby.

    As people around the world celebrated Pi Day on Thursday, March 14 (or 3/14) with a slice of pie — sweet, savoury or even pizza — Brock’s Map, Data and GIS Library (MDGL) provided a variety of fruit-filled mini pies and demonstrated its map services to 50 Brock community members. Mathematicians mark the day in recognition of pi, the irrational number 3.14159…, which is part of many formulas used in physics, astronomy, engineering and other fields. It is also used to calculate the circumference and area of a circle. From left are fourth-year Geography student Emily Owen, third-year Biology and Geography student Alyssa McInally, Brock’s Map Library Associate and Geospatial Data Co-ordinator Sharon Janzen and fourth-year Geography student Julia Gardner.

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