Bailey Klinger, BBA '02
Business grad Bailey Klinger (BBA'02) wins the Queen Elizabeth II scholarship, the province's highest academic award. With a major in business and a minor in economics, Klinger plans to pursue a career in economics so he can be involved in poverty reduction and the promotion of economic development of third world countries.
Newspaper News
The American Journalism Historians Association awards Singapore journalism professor Marc Edge (BA'78) first prize for this year's best doctoral dissertation about the history of journalism. The thesis is the genesis of Edge's book Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver's Newspaper Monopoly, which received excellent reviews when it came out last year.
Carrying the Flag
Olympic gold medal wrestler Daniel Igali (BA'01) has the rare privilege of carrying the flag in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. And he wins gold again. Igali is recently back from his homeland of Nigeria where he began construction of a new school for village children. He begins his MA studies in criminology this fall.
Playing with SkyTrains
First-time director Jason James (BA'00) has screen hotties Tygh Runyan and Amber Rothwell in his romantic comedy light.rapid. transit scheduled for the film circuit this fall. But the flick almost goes off the rails at the start because TransLink won't let him film on SkyTrain tracks. Eventually James receives permission to film on the new Millennium line in return for letting TransLink use some of his footage for promotional pieces.
Betting Against Beetles
Research into invasive exotic forest insects brings Teresa Poland (BSc'89, MPM'93, PhD'97) a major award from the U.S. Forest Service. The Chief's Early Career Scientist Award is presented to a young scientist and carries with it a US$100,000 research grant and a US$5,000 cash award.
Festival Festivities
Mile Zero, by Andrew Currie (BA'93), cleans up on the international film circuit. It premieres at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, wins top honours at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, is showcased in New York at the Town Hall Feature Film Series, and wins the City-TV award for best first feature at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival.
A Big Piece of the Pie
Boston Pizza president Mike Cordoba (BBA'88) is one of Canada's top 40 leaders under 40. And he wants to take a huge chunk of the pizza market across Canada. He plans to triple the company's sales to $1 billion by 2005 and expand from 163 pizza parlours across the continent to about 350.
Bible Institute President Dies
Rick Down (MA'83 ), most recently president of Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, is dead. He was born in Vancouver, raised in Vernon and Three Hills, and studied at Trinity Western College, UBC, and SFU.
Fast Connection
Martin Dvorak (MASC'97, PhD'02) wins this year's Douglas R. Colton medal for research excellence. Dvorak's research is into a semiconductor device that has led to the world's fastest bipolar transistor. It could play a key role in future semiconductor electronics applications, including new fibre-optic and wireless telecommunications technologies. Dvorak is now in Santa Rosa, California, where he works at scientific equipment maker Agilent Technologies' microtechnology centre.
You CAN if You Think You CAN
The Co-operative Auto Network (CAN) is the brainchild of Tracey Axelsson (BA'90, PBD'98), who developed the program while completing her community economic development post-baccalaureate diploma. The car-sharing co-op is now in its sixth year with 49 cars and 956 members, and Axelsson is one of Business in Vancouver's "top 40 under 40."
Ottawa Calling
Former SFU vice president, external, David Mitchell (BA'75, MA'76) leaves the university to become vice-rector, university relations at the University of Ottawa. Mitchell, a historian, is a frequent political commentator and a former MLA.
Call Him Chief
Terry Metcalfe (PDP'72) is the new fire chief for Langley Township. The former high school teacher is also the first recipient of the B.C. Fire Service Training Achievement award and he is active in the B.C. Fire Academy, where he writes, teaches, and tutors.
A Wizard in Aus
An SFU grad is representing Australia abroad. Burnaby's Bill Kennedy (BA'76) is currently director of International Programs for the Human Rights Commission in Australia. He is heavily involved in work with the government of China.
Nordic in 'Nam Photograph of Bailey Klinger by Marianne Meadahl, SFU Media & Public Relations.
Ann Aase (BA'97) is off to Vietnam for two years to work as a business services advisor for the Vietnamese NGO, Centre for Rural Progress. She is reviewing their present business services and consulting on how they can help further assist their clients. Aase previously ran Nordic Consulting in Victoria.
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