By Hugh Johnston
Photography by Albert Normandin

By Sharon Proctor
40 years of SFU research

Did you know that the world’s first digital cordless telephone was invented by SFU students? Did you know that the more pollen grains blueberry flowers receive, the bigger the blueberries will be? Did you know that nearly half of reported crime in Vancouver occurs within 750 metres of a Skytrain station?

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RADICAL BY DESIGN

By Michael Stevenson
The president reflects on the university’s 40 years of successes.

It took vision, creativity, and leadership to launch an "instant university" on Burnaby Mountain in 1965, and those same ingredients have shaped Simon Fraser University's development in the 40 years since. Today, with enrolment topping 25,000 - ten times the original number of students - SFU enjoys a solid reputation as one of Canada's leading universities.

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By Scott McLean
Morgan McLaughlin, Bob Molle, Terry Fox, and Daniel Igali epitomize the SFU athletic tradition.

Athletics is often confined to individual moments etched in memory: a raised fist, a sullen face, tears of joy or pain, a magnanimous victory, or a colossal defeat. And while these moments are vivid representations of outstanding feats, they often only tell a portion of the story.

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By Lee Gavel
Constructing the nature of a university

Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey began with an idea: to critically reconstruct the nature of a university. They used a unique architectural planning model to foster intellectual endeavour and build a community with an open-ended circulation and public space system integrated with the buildings.

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By Lynn Copeland
The library builds on the vision of first librarian Don Baird.

As I browsed through the early SFU library archives, I was struck by how 40 years later we are still motivated by the vision of university librarian Don Baird. He saw a “radical library” focused on collections to support the burgeoning curriculum, discipline-based liaison services, educational services, interlibrary co-operation, and innovative use of technology.

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