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April 1, 2011
Pushing green jobs
The federal government needs to be proactive when it comes to green jobs in Canada – and that includes ensuring that the equipment going into green energy initiatives is made in this country, boosting permanent employment, says SFU political economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen. Cohen and colleague John Calvert recently published a paper, What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? The State of Canadian Research on Work, Employment and Climate Change and are furthering their investigation to look at how trade unions in the energy sector are contributing to green job initiatives. Cohen says green jobs could spark interest during the election, particularly now that U.S. President Barack Obama has indicated he's pushing for reduced energy imports from off the continent.
Marjorie Griffin Cohen, 778.782.5838; 778.772.2339 (cell); mcohen@sfu.ca
High quality health care – lessons from abroad
How to achieve high quality health care will be the topic of a lecture featuring one of England’s top experts. Professor Aidan Halligan focuses on motivation, teamwork, service excellence and change in the industry – and has recently applied the lessons taken from the country’s National Health Service and medical profession to other industries. He’ll talk on health care system sustainability and quality when he speaks at SFU Surrey on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. (room 2600, Westminster Savings Theatre). Halligan, the first director of clinical governance and deputy chief medical office for England, is speaking as part of the Faculty of Health Science’s Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Lectureship.
Anna Du Bois, 778.782.6827; ada52@sfu.ca
A generation’s odyssey - Iran
Peyman Vahabzadeh, a specialist on the political sociology of leftist movements in contemporary Iran, will talk about his most recent book, A Guerilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai period of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-79, at SFU’s Vancouver campus on Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. Vahabzadeh, a sociology professor at the University of Victoria, analysed published and unpublished works of the Fadai guerillas, along with archival material and interviews with activists, to demonstrate the conditions during the debut and demise of the urban guerilla warfare in the 1970s. Reservations recommended at ccsmcs@sfu.ca
Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.3210; marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca
Jazzing it up
SFU's Vocal Jazz Group will be performing their end-of-semester concert on Tuesday, April 5, 7 p.m. at Images Theatre at the Burnaby campus. The group of approximately 30 SFU students will perform a wide variety of songs including a Michael Jackson medley, a choreographed rendition of Don't Stop Believing as seen on the TV show Glee, as well as The Lions Sleeps Tonight and Take the A Train. Admission is by donation.
Greg von Euw, SFU Vocal Jazz, 604.417.8961
The federal government needs to be proactive when it comes to green jobs in Canada – and that includes ensuring that the equipment going into green energy initiatives is made in this country, boosting permanent employment, says SFU political economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen. Cohen and colleague John Calvert recently published a paper, What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? The State of Canadian Research on Work, Employment and Climate Change and are furthering their investigation to look at how trade unions in the energy sector are contributing to green job initiatives. Cohen says green jobs could spark interest during the election, particularly now that U.S. President Barack Obama has indicated he's pushing for reduced energy imports from off the continent.
Marjorie Griffin Cohen, 778.782.5838; 778.772.2339 (cell); mcohen@sfu.ca
High quality health care – lessons from abroad
How to achieve high quality health care will be the topic of a lecture featuring one of England’s top experts. Professor Aidan Halligan focuses on motivation, teamwork, service excellence and change in the industry – and has recently applied the lessons taken from the country’s National Health Service and medical profession to other industries. He’ll talk on health care system sustainability and quality when he speaks at SFU Surrey on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. (room 2600, Westminster Savings Theatre). Halligan, the first director of clinical governance and deputy chief medical office for England, is speaking as part of the Faculty of Health Science’s Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Lectureship.
Anna Du Bois, 778.782.6827; ada52@sfu.ca
A generation’s odyssey - Iran
Peyman Vahabzadeh, a specialist on the political sociology of leftist movements in contemporary Iran, will talk about his most recent book, A Guerilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai period of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-79, at SFU’s Vancouver campus on Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. Vahabzadeh, a sociology professor at the University of Victoria, analysed published and unpublished works of the Fadai guerillas, along with archival material and interviews with activists, to demonstrate the conditions during the debut and demise of the urban guerilla warfare in the 1970s. Reservations recommended at ccsmcs@sfu.ca
Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.3210; marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca
Jazzing it up
SFU's Vocal Jazz Group will be performing their end-of-semester concert on Tuesday, April 5, 7 p.m. at Images Theatre at the Burnaby campus. The group of approximately 30 SFU students will perform a wide variety of songs including a Michael Jackson medley, a choreographed rendition of Don't Stop Believing as seen on the TV show Glee, as well as The Lions Sleeps Tonight and Take the A Train. Admission is by donation.
Greg von Euw, SFU Vocal Jazz, 604.417.8961