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September 06, 2005
Idea: Remembering radical times
SFU will host a birthday bash to celebrate its 40th anniversary on September 9. Everyone is invited to don groovy duds and enjoy the daylong festivities beginning at 11:30 a.m. with a campus barbecue. At 12:30 p.m., a celebration program will feature SFU President Michael Stevenson, charter faculty, staff, students and other dignitaries. From 3 to 6 p.m., media are invited to attend a panel discussion focussing on SFU's radical beginnings. For more information about celebrations at all three SFU campuses, check www.sfu.ca/40th_anniversary
Idea: Brighter birthday candles
SFU will light up the Lower Mainland when four 7,000-watt Xenon search lights mounted at each corner of the Academic Quadrangle are lit at 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9. The lights, widely visible around Vancouver (weather permitting), will be aimed to form a pyramid, with the apex approximately 900 metres above sea level. Port Coquitlam's Everylite Technical Services Ltd. is installing the lights to help celebrate SFU's 40th anniversary.
Idea: Trio of charter students celebrates SFU's birth
Charter SFU students Lindsay Meredith, Barry Beyerstein and kinesiology lecturer Craig Asmundson chose SFU as the place to launch their academic careers 40 years ago. Beyerstein, now an SFU psychology professor, Meredith, a SFU business professor, and Asmundson, an SFU senior lecturer in kinesiology, all attended Burnaby South Senior Secondary school together. They are available to share their memories of SFU's radical beginnings
Issue: New masters program addresses population and public health issues
SFU may be turning 40, but the upstart university continues to be true to its innovative beginnings. The new faculty of health science will launch its Population & Public Health Program on September 9. The novel program prepares professionals and graduates to work in population and public health, policy and planning for health care and delivery, and health promotion and disease prevention. David MacLean, faculty of health science's dean, can elaborate on the new program's mandate.
SFU will host a birthday bash to celebrate its 40th anniversary on September 9. Everyone is invited to don groovy duds and enjoy the daylong festivities beginning at 11:30 a.m. with a campus barbecue. At 12:30 p.m., a celebration program will feature SFU President Michael Stevenson, charter faculty, staff, students and other dignitaries. From 3 to 6 p.m., media are invited to attend a panel discussion focussing on SFU's radical beginnings. For more information about celebrations at all three SFU campuses, check www.sfu.ca/40th_anniversary
- Tim Kelley, 604.787.3427, tim_kelley@sfu.ca
Idea: Brighter birthday candles
SFU will light up the Lower Mainland when four 7,000-watt Xenon search lights mounted at each corner of the Academic Quadrangle are lit at 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9. The lights, widely visible around Vancouver (weather permitting), will be aimed to form a pyramid, with the apex approximately 900 metres above sea level. Port Coquitlam's Everylite Technical Services Ltd. is installing the lights to help celebrate SFU's 40th anniversary.
- John Briggs, SFU project planner, 604.291.4365; briggs@sfu.ca
Idea: Book launch sparks radical memories
The launch of Radical Campus: The Making of Simon Fraser University coincides with SFU's 40 th birthday bash. The 400-page book, written by retired SFU historian Hugh Johnston and published by Vancouver's Douglas and McIntyre, separates fact from fiction about SFU's radical past. Johnston, who began his career as an academic at SFU in 1968 is available for interviews. His book goes on sale at SFU bookstores on Friday, September 9.
- Hugh Johnston, 604.987.1849; hjonsto@sfu.ca
Idea: Trio of charter students celebrates SFU's birth
Charter SFU students Lindsay Meredith, Barry Beyerstein and kinesiology lecturer Craig Asmundson chose SFU as the place to launch their academic careers 40 years ago. Beyerstein, now an SFU psychology professor, Meredith, a SFU business professor, and Asmundson, an SFU senior lecturer in kinesiology, all attended Burnaby South Senior Secondary school together. They are available to share their memories of SFU's radical beginnings
- Lindsay Meredith, 604.291.5554; lindsay_meredith@sfu.caBarry Beyerstein, 604.291.3743; barry_beyerstein@sfu.caCraig Asmundson, 604.291.4231; craig_asmundson@sfu.ca
Issue: New masters program addresses population and public health issues
SFU may be turning 40, but the upstart university continues to be true to its innovative beginnings. The new faculty of health science will launch its Population & Public Health Program on September 9. The novel program prepares professionals and graduates to work in population and public health, policy and planning for health care and delivery, and health promotion and disease prevention. David MacLean, faculty of health science's dean, can elaborate on the new program's mandate.
- David MacLean, 604.291.5361; dmaclean@sfu.ca