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October 29, 2010
Stemming Africa’s tide of HIV/AIDS deaths
In Africa, due to an HIV/AIDS epidemic, it’s common for children and grandmothers to be surrounded by the death of family members and devoted to caring for those who survive. In an effort to help ease this cycle, SFU health scientist Rochelle Tucker and her students are again raising funds for the second annual Stephen Lewis Foundation’s A Dare to Remember national campaign. This year, Tucker, her colleagues and students in health sciences will welcome a Swahili grandmother and granddaughter to campus to share their stories of loss to HIV/AIDS in a free Blusson Hall lecture Thurs., Nov. 4, 4-5 p.m. The two women will speak again later that night at a $35 a ticket fundraiser, featuring a choir and other entertainment, at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Tucker can provide details and discuss the challenges of fundraising.
http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archives/sfu-dares-to-care-more-for-hivaids.html
Rochelle Tucker, 778.782.7174; tucker@sfu.ca
Switch to electricity from oil
Anthony Perl, director of SFU’s urban studies program, and his colleague Richard Gilbert have contributed a chapter in the new book, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises. They provide a vision of what post-carbon transportation in North America would be like and how it can be attained. This contribution builds on their own book, Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil, released earlier this year.
Having worked in transport policy for much of his career, Perl believes the world needs to curb its dependence on oil to avoid shortages that could cripple economies and lead to widespread geo-political conflict. He endorses electricity as the solution and advocates using more electric buses and cars, and electric trains for moving people and goods over longer distances.
Anthony Perl, Urban Studies, 778.782.7887; aperl@sfu.ca
In Africa, due to an HIV/AIDS epidemic, it’s common for children and grandmothers to be surrounded by the death of family members and devoted to caring for those who survive. In an effort to help ease this cycle, SFU health scientist Rochelle Tucker and her students are again raising funds for the second annual Stephen Lewis Foundation’s A Dare to Remember national campaign. This year, Tucker, her colleagues and students in health sciences will welcome a Swahili grandmother and granddaughter to campus to share their stories of loss to HIV/AIDS in a free Blusson Hall lecture Thurs., Nov. 4, 4-5 p.m. The two women will speak again later that night at a $35 a ticket fundraiser, featuring a choir and other entertainment, at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Tucker can provide details and discuss the challenges of fundraising.
http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archives/sfu-dares-to-care-more-for-hivaids.html
Rochelle Tucker, 778.782.7174; tucker@sfu.ca
Switch to electricity from oil
Anthony Perl, director of SFU’s urban studies program, and his colleague Richard Gilbert have contributed a chapter in the new book, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises. They provide a vision of what post-carbon transportation in North America would be like and how it can be attained. This contribution builds on their own book, Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil, released earlier this year.
Having worked in transport policy for much of his career, Perl believes the world needs to curb its dependence on oil to avoid shortages that could cripple economies and lead to widespread geo-political conflict. He endorses electricity as the solution and advocates using more electric buses and cars, and electric trains for moving people and goods over longer distances.
Anthony Perl, Urban Studies, 778.782.7887; aperl@sfu.ca