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AQ Cover November 2011
The Joy of Math

by Sharon Proctor
Photograpy by Curtis Trent

"She's awesome."
"She's incredible at explaining things."
"She truly enjoys teaching math and wants every student to succeed."
"Prior to her course I was terrible at math; now it's easy and I don't mind it."

The subject of this student praise is SFU's award-winning mathematics lecturer Malgorzata Dubiel. She is a 2011 YWCA Woman of Distinction, recipient of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, an SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Education Prize.

Postcards

By Eric Swanick

A collection of 8,000 postcards, most from British Columbia, is a rich and largely untapped resource for historians and the public. Special Collections at Simon Fraser University was given the collection earlier this year.

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THE REALIZATION OF A VISION

By Craig Asmundson, Parveen Bawa, and Harry King

The multidisciplinary Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology (BPK) is making news around the world. It builds on the basic sciences to study human movement, structure, and function, and its discoveries are having a significant impact on our health.

The department has its origins in the pioneering work of the late Eric Banister....

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Lefty's legacy, Margaret's hope

by Ron Verzuh
Illustration by Jeff Burgess

SFU alumna Margaret Morgan (MA'76) and her husband, left-wing radical Richard Ernest "Lefty" Morgan, were life-long learners, educators, and activists, so it seems appropriate that SFU's research centre for labour studies should be named the Morgan Centre for Labour Studies.

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