Brock University

Outstanding Teaching Award - Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Jade Schmidt has earned this year’s Outstanding Teaching Award for her unwavering commitment to her students and crafting the best possible learning environment for them. “A great professor is one who ...
Research examines what it will take to foster empathy for the world’s oceans
Oceans support all life on Earth. Yet for many, oceans remain out of sight and, as a result, out of mind. A Brock University-led research team set out to find out if people would feel more empathy for ...
Virtual reality may help us develop empathy for oceans and marine life
Empathy is an important factor in getting people to act on environmental issues. Virtual reality can bring oceans closer to home for those who can’t experience the wealth of marine ecosystems.
A killing in Jones County: Trenton native searches for answers to father's 1942 death
Trenton native Clemmie Strayhorn is still searching for answers to the killing of his father, Isaac, who was pulled from Brock's Mill Pond in 1942.
Brock’s NCO to present research on remote work as a long-term strategy
To be, or not to be, remote? That is the question Brock University’s Niagara Community Observatory (NCO) is exploring in its latest research brief on the future of working at home or some office-home ...

Prof, student combine efforts to study impact of VR on ethical decision-making
It was a match made in research heaven. Anh Mai To (MEd ’20), a master’s student in Brock’s Faulty of Education, was fascinated by technology. She was keen to learn the ins and outs of academic ...
Movie review: Tom Hardy back for more outlandish action in 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage'
It was Tom Hardy’s performance in “Venom,” playing a San Francisco journalist, Eddie Brock, who becomes the ... doesn’t have that sense of joyful discovery and gleeful mischief that ...
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is actually a queer love story with a groundbreaking coming out scene
The new Venom film will centre around a “love affair” between Eddie Brock and the symbiote, even featuring a “coming out party” for Venom. Serkis explained the scene was based on an LGBT+ festival and ...
Venom: Everything You Need To Remember About The First Movie Ahead Of Let There Be Carnage
In the opening moments of Venom, a spacecraft (later revealed to be a Life Foundation recon mission to find new planets) crashes in Malaysia containing four specimens from a comet the ship came ...
Illusionist, Evangelist Brock Gill Featured On Big Church Night Out Tour Has New Book
Illusionist and evangelist Brock Gill, who is featured on Big Church ... and the three-hour Discovery Channel special, the Miracles of Jesus, which took him to Malta and Israel as the lead ...