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March 16, 2007
Census tracks population growth
Get psyched: The psychology of networking
Higher education and the state
Living with terrorist threats
Get psyched: The psychology of networking
Higher education and the state
Living with terrorist threats
Census tracks population growth
B.C. has two of the country's fastest growing metropolitan areas (Kelowna, Abbotsford). But census figures released this week also show the province has five towns with the nation's largest declining populations. Sean Markey, assistant professor in SFU's geography department, looks at community and regional development as well as locally-based economic development opportunities in northern B.C. He can also talk about sustainable community planning in both rural and urban settings, and how communities make decisions concerning sustainable infrastructure development or renewal.
Sean Markey, 778.782.7608, spmarkey@sfu.ca
Get psyched...
SFU will host the first annual psychology alumni networking event on Wednesday, March 21 from 5 to 8 pm at the Diamond Alumni Centre on the Burnaby campus. Organizer and psychology student union president Ravi Bansal is appealing to past graduates of the program to attend the free event and share their hard-won real-world wisdom with current students. For more information, contact rbansal@sfu.ca.
Ravi Bansal, 604.779.6749, rbansal@sfu.ca
Higher Education and the state
When Hannah Gay retired as professor of history at Simon Fraser University, she immediately took a new job as senior research fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London. Now she has completed a major history of the college (Britain's foremost science and engineering university, and the ninth best university in the world according to The Times of London). Dr. Gay will present SFU's 2007 John F. Hutchinson memorial lecture on Friday, March 16, 5:15-7 pm, SFU Vancouver, 515 W. Hastings St. She'll discuss how a once highly independent university system became increasingly answerable to the state in Higher Education and the State: Britain, 1945-2000.
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 604.291.5151
Living with terrorist threats
How do we live in an age in which the threat of terrorism can send investments plummeting and security skyrocketing? In a one-day international security workshop, hosted by the SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, participants from various backgrounds, including law enforcement, trade relations and human security, will explore several themes. Among them are: challenges to security in transportation, energy supply vulnerability and industrial security, and environmental and cultural threats to security. SFU political scientists Andy Hira and Doug Ross will discuss their latest study, Canada After 9-11: A Land of Deep Ambivalence. The workshop, Terrorism, Trade and the Threat to Prosperity: Adapting North American Security and Border Relations to Terrorist Threats, is open to the public. It takes place Friday, March 23, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Halpern Centre, Burnaby campus.
Andy Hira, 604.291.3286, ahira@sfu.ca
Doug Ross, 604.291.4782, douglas_ross@sfu.ca
B.C. has two of the country's fastest growing metropolitan areas (Kelowna, Abbotsford). But census figures released this week also show the province has five towns with the nation's largest declining populations. Sean Markey, assistant professor in SFU's geography department, looks at community and regional development as well as locally-based economic development opportunities in northern B.C. He can also talk about sustainable community planning in both rural and urban settings, and how communities make decisions concerning sustainable infrastructure development or renewal.
Sean Markey, 778.782.7608, spmarkey@sfu.ca
Get psyched...
SFU will host the first annual psychology alumni networking event on Wednesday, March 21 from 5 to 8 pm at the Diamond Alumni Centre on the Burnaby campus. Organizer and psychology student union president Ravi Bansal is appealing to past graduates of the program to attend the free event and share their hard-won real-world wisdom with current students. For more information, contact rbansal@sfu.ca.
Ravi Bansal, 604.779.6749, rbansal@sfu.ca
Higher Education and the state
When Hannah Gay retired as professor of history at Simon Fraser University, she immediately took a new job as senior research fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London. Now she has completed a major history of the college (Britain's foremost science and engineering university, and the ninth best university in the world according to The Times of London). Dr. Gay will present SFU's 2007 John F. Hutchinson memorial lecture on Friday, March 16, 5:15-7 pm, SFU Vancouver, 515 W. Hastings St. She'll discuss how a once highly independent university system became increasingly answerable to the state in Higher Education and the State: Britain, 1945-2000.
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 604.291.5151
Living with terrorist threats
How do we live in an age in which the threat of terrorism can send investments plummeting and security skyrocketing? In a one-day international security workshop, hosted by the SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, participants from various backgrounds, including law enforcement, trade relations and human security, will explore several themes. Among them are: challenges to security in transportation, energy supply vulnerability and industrial security, and environmental and cultural threats to security. SFU political scientists Andy Hira and Doug Ross will discuss their latest study, Canada After 9-11: A Land of Deep Ambivalence. The workshop, Terrorism, Trade and the Threat to Prosperity: Adapting North American Security and Border Relations to Terrorist Threats, is open to the public. It takes place Friday, March 23, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Halpern Centre, Burnaby campus.
Andy Hira, 604.291.3286, ahira@sfu.ca
Doug Ross, 604.291.4782, douglas_ross@sfu.ca