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| Stephanie Bertels of the Beedie School
of Business represents the exciting
new faculty who will be showcased at
SFU's 2012 Open House. |
COME TO OUR OPEN HOUSE
SFU's 2012 Open House is Saturday, May 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Burnaby campus. Check out more than 100 interactive displays, performances, and other activities that will be inspiring and entertaining for all ages. For more information and updates please follow SFU on Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/simonfraseruniversity), Twitter (@SFU), and the Open House website
<www.sfu.ca/openhouse>.
BEEDIE RANKS HIGH
The Beedie School of Business is among
the top 75 schools internationally in Jiao Tong University's 2011 Academic Ranking of the Top 500 World Universities. It also places 22nd in management in the Top 100 World Rankings of Business Schools published by the University of Texas at Dallas. The accolades join last spring's ranking of Beedie as among the top 30 in management information systems as recognized by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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| Banner Bags project organizers Sonam Swarup (l) and Lauren Watkin. |
Green City Award
Students in Free Enterprise at the Surrey Campus win an eco award for turning
banners into bags. The Banner Bags
project has saved three-quarters of a
ton of nylon from landfills and also
taught hundreds of high school
students how simple sewing can
help the environment. More
than 800 banners have
been converted into
bags at more
than 30
schools.
A medical discovery involving three SFU
scientists makes Time magazine's top 10 list
of medical breakthroughs in 2011. Studies in the journal Genome Research uncover the first evidence of a link between human colorectal cancer and the bacterium Fusobacterium. The scientists are Robert Holt, associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry (MBB) and a B.C. Cancer Agency scientist;
Richard Moore, an adjunct professor in SFU's Faculty of Health Sciences and a B.C. Cancer Agency researcher; and Mauro Castellarin, an MBB doctoral student.
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| Brenda Morrison,
with totem pole
honouring her co-director,
Liz Elliott, at SFU's
Centre for Restorative
Justice. |
Honouring Liz Elliott
A totem pole carved by inmates at Mission's
Ferndale Correctional Institution as a
tribute to criminologist Liz Elliott is raised in the School of Criminology atrium, following a blessing ceremony by First Nations elders. Elliott, a champion of restorative justice and outreach to inmates, died in September at age 54.
Treasure Trove of Film
Twenty-eight hundred rare documentaries
from Videomatica are coming to SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts, where they will be part of a new cinema studies program. UBC will receive the rest of the collection of 2,800 DVDs, 4,000 VHS titles, and 900 blu-rays that Videomatica amassed over the years. The deal, brokered by former Continuing Studies director Yosef Wosk, has both universities agreeing to borrow videos from each other on a priority basis.
 Monkey See
The Miller's Grizzled Langur (left) is critically
endangered, thought to be possibly extinct, and almost never photographed. Until now. PhD student Brent Loken captures rare pictures in Borneo's Wahea Forest. Loken was originally hoping to capture images of the elusive Bornean clouded leopard when he set up a camera trap in the rainforest. Instead, he made the re-discovery of a lifetime. His work is featured in a paper that was published this March in the American Journal of Primatology.
 IN THE
LIMELIGHT
Criminology student
Sean Kirkham narrates
Limelight: The Rise of New York's Greatest Nightclub Empire. It's an absorbing new
documentary that chronicles the
the spectacular rise and fall of Peter Gatien, the Canadian-born Manhattan club baron.
Delivering the Goods
Ryan Flowers is a letter carrier by day
and an award-winning film director by night. His short film No Words Came Down, made with fellow School for the Contemporary Arts students Lisa Pham (co-director) and Tyler Hagan (director of photography), is named one of Canada's Top Ten Short Films of 2011. It also wins the Best Student Shortwork at the 11th annual Whistler Film Festival.
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| Rodney Vaughan in the SFU Burnaby antenna measurement lab. |
Better Reception
SFU's new Sierra Wireless Mobile Communications Lab evaluates antenna radiowave patterns that will lead to new antenna concepts and designs. And that will lead to better reception.
The lab is the only one in Western Canada where companies can undertake shared access for research, development, and testing. There are more than 250 wireless companies in B.C.
<www.ensc.sfu.ca/carousel/rodney_vaughn.html>
India Initiative
 SFU's ties to India are strengthened by President Andrew Petter's fall trip. Memoranda of understanding are signed with the Indian Institute of Management Sciences, so faculty at both institutions can explore additional research programs and exchanges; with Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, where SFU will train faculty and offer curriculum advice; and with the Indian Institute of Technology, where a joint graduate program in engineering and computing science will be offered. In addition, scholarships will be offered to top students from Delhi public schools to enable them to study at SFU.
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St. John, a three-time recipient of Canadian Red Cross awards, has worked extensively with the organization, including coordinating the youth
conference Humanity Strikes Back. |
Global Challenge
SFU's fourth Rhodes Scholar is Sarah St. John. She studies health sciences and sustainable community development and will pursue a master's degree in public policy at Oxford. She has a passion for advancing humanitarianism and sustainability.
Crime Patterns
Students Natalia Iwanski (right) and Richard Frank (left) win a best paper award at the 2011 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. The paper, "Analyzing an Offender's Journey to Crime: A Criminal Movement Model (CriMM)," looks at criminals' travel paths from their homes to the scenes of their crimes.
Mobile History
Next time you are walking around the city, take the Vancouver in Time app with you. With one tap you can see then or now (at Granville and Georgia see the London Drugs building and then the 1913 Birks Building that stood there until 1974). The app is a
collaboration of the Canadian Encyclopedia and SFU's 7th Floor Media.
Remembering a Great Man - 1939 – 2011
Milton Wong, who did so much for SFU and the wider community, has died at age 72. Wong was
chancellor for two terms (1999–2005), was a
champion of the Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and donated $3 million to build the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre in Contemporary Arts in SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, in the Woodward's redevelopment.
He was one of Vancouver's most honoured philanthropists, financiers, and community leaders.
 Spinal Cord – Heart Link
PhD candidate Rianne Ravensbergen
discovers that people with spinal cord injuries are often in a pre-diabetic state that puts them at risk for heart disease. Ravensbergen is supervised by Victoria Claydon in the cardiovascular physiology laboratory at SFU.
ATTENTION GETTING
A paper on social media by four researchers
at the Beedie School of Business is a must read. "Social media? Get serious!
Understanding the functional building blocks of social media" earns Kristopher Hermkens, Ian McCarthy, Jan Kietzmann, and Bruno Silvestre the Best Article of 2011 award from Business Horizons. The U.S. government adds the paper to its list of recommended reading;
Britain's Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration flags the paper as key reading;
and ScienceDirect lists it as among the year's top 10 articles in business. <http://beedie.sfu.ca/files/PDF/research/McCarthy_Papers/2011_Social_Media_BH.pdf>
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| Jeff Krahn watches his robot scale a smooth wall. |
Leapin' Lizards
A gecko-like climbing robot that scales walls
using ultra-fine microfibres to provide an alternative to magnets and suction cups is causing an international sensation. The robot was developed by graduate student Jeff Krahn and engineering science assistant professor Carlo Menon, and the research was published in the journal Smart Materials and Structures.
Stephanie Bertels portrait, Kyrani Kanavaros; Brendan Morrison photo, Les Bazso/PNG; Rodney Vaughan photo, Greg Ehlers/TLC; Milton Wong portrait, John Sinal image; spine image, bigstockphoto.com
All others courtesy SFU NEWS/PAMR
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