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Save the date - SFU health research day - April 7, 2011On May 12, health researchers from all faculties will gather to learn more about current health research at SFU, including...
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Defeating crime with urban design - April 7, 2011SFU’s crime-fighting husband-and-wife team, Patricia and Paul Brantingham, got a resounding vote of confidence recently...
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Death by avalanche quicker in Canada - April 7, 2011Avalanche victims buried in Canada die significantly faster than those buried in Switzerland, according to the latest study...
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‘Smart’ tires on $2.6-million research list - March 24, 2011Charging your car battery may soon be something your tires can do. Grad students and faculty researchers led by Mechatronics...
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ViPS tackles ethics of scientific decision-making - March 24, 2011SFU’s new Institute for Values in Policy and Science (ViPS) aims to get researchers, ethicists, philosophers,...
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Study links forest health to salmon populations - March 24, 2011A new research paper by SFU biologists John Reynolds and Morgan Hocking, published in the journal Science, concludes that the...
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SFU researcher wins Steacie fellowship - February 24, 2011SFU chemistry professor David Vocadlo is one of six scientists named 2011 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellows this month, with...
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Study links fish farms to Fraser sockeye sea lice - February 24, 2011After years of speculation, a study co-authored by SFU fish scientist John Reynolds has for the first time established that...
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SFU scientist tracks Amelia Earhart DNA links - February 21, 2011Research in SFU’s forensic lab could produce the first DNA profile of aviation’s most celebrated woman, Amelia...
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Researchers get new NSERC funding - February 10, 2011Seven SFU researchers will share more than $2.7 million in new funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research...
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B.C. wine industry facing tough times: report - February 10, 2011Although B.C.’s wine industry has flourished and become a major tourist attraction over the past decade, a new SFU...
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Psyched on video games: research aids design - February 10, 2011Cognitive psychologist Veronica Zammitto is working to improve videogame designs by examining where gamers focus their eyes...
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Companies can’t dismiss consumer hackers - February 10, 2011Companies need to embrace the new wave of consumers who are tinkering and altering their products, according to an award...
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Studies track fall prevention - February 10, 2011Bus riders take note: more than half of non-collision injuries to bus and subway passengers occur while they are standing....
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New program for environmental science - February 10, 2011Beginning in the fall semester, the Faculty of Environment is embarking on a new environmental science program that will...
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Butterfly wings inspire anti-counterfeiting product - January 27, 2011SFU researchers are behind a new nanotechnology—inspired by the tiny holes on a butterfly’s wings—that can...
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Award honours prof’s fisheries research career - January 27, 2011SFU professor Randall Peterman was recognized Jan. 19 with the Vancouver Aquarium’s prestigious Murray A. Newman Award...
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Tracking potential HIV moms in Africa - January 13, 2011A new research chair focusing on HIV-positive African women who choose to have babies is SFU’s latest endeavour in AIDS...
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Wind speed declining in Pacific Northwest: study - January 13, 2011Climate change may be taking some of the wind out of nature’s sails. A new study led by researchers in the Faculty of...
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Making a case for cadmium/shellfish guidelines - January 13, 2011SFU biologist Leah Bendell received an early Christmas present when a science writer cited her research in the December 2010...
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Averting a perfect storm for wild salmon - December 16, 2010Despite this summer’s record sockeye salmon run, SFU scientists say a population explosion of hatchery and wild salmon...
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Salmon sea-lice problem widespread: study - December 15, 2010SFU fish biologist John Reynolds has co-authored new research in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ...
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SFU heads $1.8M African HIV project - December 2, 2010Simon Fraser University is leading a four-year, $1.8-million project to improve the ability of research facilities in Africa...
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B.C. Canada’s police-death capital, report says - December 2, 2010People are dying at a higher rate in jail and police-related incidents in British Columbia than in any other jurisdiction in...
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Fire up the antimatter generator, Scotty - December 2, 2010Harnessing antimatter has long been the stuff of Star Trek and other science fiction stories—until now. Simon Fraser...
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Research targets ‘scrip opioid abuse - December 2, 2010Non-medical use of prescription opioids nowadays is estimated to kill more Canadians than heroin, cocaine or other illicit...
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SFU scientists share new clues about humans - December 2, 2010Five Simon Fraser University researchers and alumni are part of an international group of scientists that published two new...
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Obesity study targets kids in India, Canada - December 2, 2010More than 4,000 children in India and Canada will be the focus of a sweeping new study aimed at developing critical...
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Increasing sexual consent age may not protect at-risk teens - November 18, 2010The government’s 2008 increase in the legal age of sexual consent from 14 to 16 years may not be achieving the intended...
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Is beer civilizing? - November 18, 2010Did beer help fuel the rise of civilization? It’s possible, say’s SFU ethno-archaeologist Brian Hayden, who plans...
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‘Dr. Mosquito’ strikes again with insect ‘LEGO blocks’ - November 18, 2010Biology professor Carl Lowenberger—affectionately known as Dr. Mosquito for his role in SFU’s Spread the Net anti...
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SFU research packs influential punch - November 4, 2010SFU’s researchers are bringing in about four times the research income they did a decade ago—and are having more...
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Biochips could save thousands of Indian newborns - November 4, 2010SFU engineering scientist Ash Parameswaran and a trio of grad students working with Indian researchers have created a fast,...
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Report tracks ‘clear failure’ of cannabis prohibition - November 4, 2010The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) last month released a research report co-authored by SFU health...
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Climate-change savvy trio win big - October 21, 2010Three SFU doctoral students whose research focuses on water management decision-making, trans-boundary water governance and...
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Students produce public service videos in Punjabi - October 21, 2010SFU communication students have collaborated with university health sciences researchers and others to produce two public...
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Computing scientists create ‘recommender’ system - October 21, 2010A new system for creating trusted recommendations online has attracted interest from Internet giant Yahoo and earned its SFU...
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Centre for public opinion launched - October 21, 2010SFU’s political science department launched its new Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation Oct. 12 with...
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New arthritis chair for health sciences - October 21, 2010Charles Goldsmith, a clinical epidemiologist and biostatistician passionate about helping people with musculoskeletal...
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First health sciences PhD takes on HIV/AIDS - October 7, 2010Nathan Ford isn’t too impressed by rankings. Earning SFU’s first health sciences PhD, for example, means much...
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Partnership will boost Central Coast research - October 7, 2010The Tula Foundation is partnering with SFU and providing as much as $8 million over eight years to create the Hakai Network...
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SFU spin-off targets Alzheimer’s with Merck partnership - September 9, 2010An SFU spin-off company is taking aim at Alzheimer’s disease in partnership with pharmaceutical giant Merck. ...
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Hybrid biochip fosters faster DNA analysis - August 17, 2010SFU chemist Paul Li, who pioneered lab-on-a-biochip technology six years ago, has struck gold in the research world again...
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Rural crack use No. 1 street-drug problem: study - July 22, 2010As crack cocaine use rises in Canada, so too does the urgent need for targeted prevention and treatment programs&mdash...
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Stable temperature promotes biodiversity - July 22, 2010Scientists have generated more than 100 hypotheses over the last few centuries to explain why tropical rainforests have so...
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Feds fund dietary therapy research - July 22, 2010Increased federal funding has enabled SFU biologist Allison Kermode to continue work on a novel treatment to improve the...
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Nature’s speed limit? - July 8, 2010According to new SFU research, there’s a speed limit on the information super-highways that route key messages through...
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Future diabetes remedy? - June 24, 2010New research by a team of Canadian scientists including SFU chemist Mario Pinto suggests that controlling diet-induced...
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African partners confer on HIV/AIDS project - June 24, 2010Last month, SFU hosted eight visitors from its partner universities in Ghana, Africa who are involved in an international...
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Summer sojourners - June 24, 2010It’s summertime and the learning is easier off campus for many SFU students, staff and faculty members doing field...
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New study claims Rembrandt tricked eyes to linger longer - June 24, 2010What’s the secret behind Rembrandt’s compelling portraiture? Steve DiPaola, a professor in the School of...
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Study aims to reorient lost cells - June 24, 2010Like travellers, cells can get lost without a compass. That’s particularly bad news in the case of cancer cells. ...
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DNA sleuth tracks turkey’s origins - June 10, 2010An archaeologist whose research is shedding light on how early indigenous animals were domesticated has received SFU’s...
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New dental prof roots out oral cancer - June 10, 2010Ten years ago, Denise Laronde was working as a dental hygienist. This month, she graduates with a PhD in biomedical...
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Education doctoral grad maps promising research path - June 10, 2010Olusola (Sola) Adesope and his wife Tolu were expecting their second baby in 2003 and had just immigrated to Canada from the...
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High-tech help for the elderly - May 27, 2010More than 400 of the world’s leading experts in geriatric health, housing and assistive technology are meeting in...
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Another piece found in disease puzzle - May 27, 2010An international research team led by SFU cell biologist Michel Leroux is closer to piecing together a picture of what causes...
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Grad students start health science journal - May 27, 2010SFU MSc student Inderjeet Sahota and University of Toronto colleague Wilson Wong have started an online health-science...
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SFU researchers sit on fisheries advisory panel - May 27, 2010Two SFU researchers will sit on a six-member scientific panel that will independently advise the Cohen Commission of Inquiry...
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Robo cell - May 13, 2010Scientists Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology are the proud parents of a robotic...
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SFU/UBC launch visual analytics institute - May 13, 2010Researchers from SFU and UBC have collaborated with industry partners to launch the Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics ...
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Technique helps build anti-viral drugs faster - May 13, 2010SFU chemist Andy Bennet and his PhD student Jeff Chan have developed a technique that will accelerate the creation of...
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Conference targets cardiovascular health - May 13, 2010Cardiovascular disease—a growing problem in both Canada and India—will be the focus of an international...
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Beaming in on lasers - May 13, 2010Laser creator was ‘a natural inventor’ It took only $50,000, the help of one part-time lab assistant and nine...
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Study assesses new fish-farming method - April 8, 2010SFU researchers are joining forces with other scientists and industry partners to assess how Canada’s aquaculture...
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Smashing good science - April 8, 2010Particle beams are colliding at the highest energies ever reached by a man-made accelerator at Switzerland’s CERN...
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Neuroscience: Exploring the brain’s highways - April 8, 2010The highways that SFU biologist Michael Silverman travels aren’t found on any Google map. They’re the microscopic...
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A tale of two turkeys - March 25, 2010Before you sit down for your Easter turkey dinner, consider where the bird came from. You may be surprised to learn that its...
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LifeSciences B.C. to honour SFU quartet - March 25, 2010Biomedical physiologist Andy Hoffer is one of four SFU scientists who will be honoured with 2010 LifeSciences B.C. awards...
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DNA links caribou lineage to volcanic eruption - March 25, 2010SFU researcher Tyler Kuhn has recovered DNA from ancient caribou bones possibly linking several small unique caribou herds to...
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Tiny sensor has many uses - March 11, 2010Imagine being able to adjust your home furnace, check whether your arteries are plugging up or determine your child’s...
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Invention mimics extreme environments - February 25, 2010A new SFU invention could make it easier for researchers to travel anywhere to study how air conditions in extreme...
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World’s future may turn on dust in the wind - February 25, 2010Strange as it sounds, dust may have helped end the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. And that has environmental scientists...
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Childhood leukemia doubles in Iraqi province - February 25, 2010Childhood leukemia rates in Basra, Iraq more than doubled over a 15-year period, peaking three years into the U.S.-led...
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Sloan Fellowship for math professor - February 25, 2010Matt DeVos, assistant professor of mathematics, has been awarded a $50,000 Sloan Research Fellowship to further his...
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Ambush marketers threaten Olympic sponsors - February 25, 2010A new SFU Business study shows that aggressive ambush marketers could cost official sponsors of the Olympics and other events...
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Worms from space show DNA change - February 4, 2010It sounds like science fiction. In 2007, SFU molecular biologists David Baillie and Bob Johnsen froze in liquid nitrogen about...
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Study targets fainting astronauts - February 4, 2010SFU kinesiologist Andrew Blaber was among the researchers waiting at the Edwards Air Force Base in California last September...
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Space station needs some ‘fake plants’ - February 4, 2010In 2005, geography assistant professor Paul Kingsbury volunteered to assess the habitability of the International Space...
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Prof receives phone messages from space - February 4, 2010Barbara Frisken received several messages from outer space last year on her answering machine. And no, it wasn’t ET calling...
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Study targets the brain and athletic success - February 4, 2010Athletes seeking a spot on the podium at the Winter Olympics will need to be at their best mentally as well as physically. ...
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Human costs of war declining: study - January 21, 2010Wartime mortality—from disease and malnutrition as well as war-inflicted injuries—is decreasing in most of today’s armed...
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Looking for a better way to search survey data? - January 21, 2010Looking for an easier way to access social science survey data such as the Canadian census, Statistics Canada’s omnibus...
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Study paints compassionate picture of johns - January 21, 2010Johns’ Voice, an unprecedented study of how men who buy sex relate to prostitutes, concludes that most customers, or johns,...
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Atom-smashing record thrills physicists - January 7, 2010Virtually every physicist in Canada would love to have been in Jennifer Godfrey’s shoes last month. The SFU PhD student...
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Plumbing our cluttered soundscape - January 7, 2010Are the constantly proliferating and overlapping sounds in our environment helping us to process information, hindering us or...
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Exploring life’s origins in an ‘RNA world’ - January 7, 2010One popular idea concerning the origin of life on Earth is called the "RNA World" theory. And last month an SFU research group...
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Researchers to study ocean health - January 7, 2010The Royal Society of Canada has appointed 10 scientists—two of them from SFU—to an independent panel charged with studying...
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SIAT sparks a GRAND plan - January 7, 2010Researchers from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) will be part of a GRAND effort to study how people make...
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Centre to study mental health, addiction, inequality - January 7, 2010How do the intersections of gender, race, poverty and other social factors affect services and outcomes for people with...
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Lear’s matters of the heart - December 3, 2009Scott Lear researches heart disease—and has a To-Do List that looks long enough to cause heart disease. The SFU kinesiologist...
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Vancouver’s videogame industry in need of a power-up - December 3, 2009Vancouver’s high-profile video game industry is at a crossroads, warns Anthony Gurr, a master’s student in education...
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SFU tackles sockeye collapse - December 3, 2009SFU Continuing Studies in Science’s Speaking for the Salmon program has three upcoming events addressing the Fraser River...
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New meaning for ‘athlete’s foot’ - December 3, 2009Longer toes may give sprinters a leg up on other runners, according to a new study by SFU post-doctoral fellow Sabrina Lee...
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Scott Lear’s matters of the heart - November 20, 2009SFU’s Scott Lear researches heart disease—and has a To Do List that looks long enough to cause heart disease. The...
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Lungpacer device wins another top tech award - November 19, 2009SFU biomedical physiologist Andy Hoffer, whose Lungpacer diaphragm-pacing device reduces recovery time for patients on...
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Psychologist has personal stake in Vancouver homeless project - November 19, 2009Few people know more than Julian Somers about the socio-psychological aspects of Vancouver’s homeless problem, but the issue...
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Canada's top angel - November 5, 2009The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has named Mike Volker, executive director of SFU’s University/Industry Liaison...
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Research income exceeds $86 million - November 5, 2009SFU’s research income increased 11.8 per cent to $86.7 million in fiscal 2008, placing it in 19th place among Canadian...
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Paralyzing light turns worms blue - November 5, 2009Experimenting with light, molecules and worms, SFU scientists are inching closer to altering and possibly improving how...
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Three new, four renewed Canada Research Chairs - November 5, 2009Physicist Erol Girt studies the smallest of structures— those measuring just one billionth of a meter—and his research will...
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‘Lungpacer’ a New Ventures BC winner - October 8, 2009A new therapeutic device that will accelerate and improve the recovery time of critically ill patients on mechanical...
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Saving the earth, one government policy at a time - October 8, 2009A childhood in rural Clinton, Ont., exploring nearby woodlands, taking care of animals and riding horses imbued Kelly Vodden ...
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Passion for health inspires M.Ed. grad - October 8, 2009For Laura MacNiven, who convocates this month with an M.Ed. in health education and physical activity, what drove her...
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Rice price hikes devastate Bangladeshi poor - October 8, 2009Maggie Nicholls learned an important life lesson last year from impoverished women living in the slums of Uttara, an...
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‘Mr. Big’ ruse needs reforming, says crim grad - October 8, 2009Kouri Keenan had no opinion either way when he began his master’s thesis on "Mr. Big", an undercover police technique in...
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HIV/AIDS research sparks controversy, threats and awards - October 8, 2009Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist who pioneered research into the origins of HIV/AIDS, is the 2009 recipient of...
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Bioinformatics breakthrough battles beetles, cancer - September 24, 2009A research team led by SFU bioinformatics scientist Steven Jones has developed a quicker, more affordable way to sequence...
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Paleobotanist digs ancient burned plants - September 24, 2009Unearthing charred botanical remains at a Middle Eastern archaeological dig this summer in 35–40C weather isn’t everyone’s...
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VP-research seeks strategic plan input - September 24, 2009VP-research Mario Pinto will be working with faculty deans and associate deans of research this fall to optimize a Strategic...
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New hope for rural B.C. heart patients - September 10, 2009SFU kinesiologist Scott Lear is looking for rural recruits to test an Internet-based alternative to city-hospital cardiac...
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Limited-colour displays could boost phone life - July 23, 2009Three SFU computing scientists have developed a way to create limited-colour displays for devices such as cell phones that...
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Virtual neighbourhoods examine social issues - July 23, 2009Researcher Andrew Park (below right) is using videogame technology to study how people react to crime and fear in Vancouver’s...
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AIDS walk leads to lifetime calling - July 23, 2009Alicia Tallack can’t put her finger on exactly why she first became an HIV/AIDS activist. There was no eureka moment for the ...
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Linguist aims to tap cyber sentiment - July 23, 2009The web is brimming with commentary and criticism and Julian Brooke (above) thinks it would be useful if we could...
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‘Made in B.C.’ climate-change strategy needed: study - July 9, 2009British Columbians are being short-changed when it comes to climate-change health-impact studies, according to the authors of...
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Residents favour legalized prostitution: survey - July 9, 2009An online survey of residents and business owners in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Strathcona shows that the majority of...
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Nanoscale research nets macro funding - July 9, 2009SFU’s 4D LABS materials science research centre is getting about $884,000 from Western Economic Diversification Canada to add...
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New NRC repository shares research data - July 9, 2009SFU researchers now have a valuable new online resource for information on phenomena such as B.C. forest wildfire and insect...
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Heroin trials produce no crime: study - June 25, 2009Local residents and businesses can rest easy about having a government-sanctioned, secure heroin-injection clinic in their...
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Research promotes workplace mental health - June 25, 2009Thirty per cent of B.C. employees work in environments that are not psychologically safe and healthy, according to a new...
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Physiological mystery in African highlands - June 25, 2009Victoria Claydon often awoke in her Ethiopian-highland base camp last March to find dozens of baboons trooping past her tent...
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SFU lags in sustainability initiatives - June 25, 2009How do SFU’s sustainability initiatives compare with those of UBC and UVic? This spring, nine SFU Business sustainability...
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Caribbean coral reefs collapsing: study - June 11, 2009Climate change has caused a startling 75 per cent of the Caribbean region’s coral reefs to collapse, reducing the region’s...
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Scientists and robots step forward - June 11, 2009International researchers who study walking will demonstrate their insights and inventions—from walking robots to robotic...
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Biologist joins national buzz over woes of bees - June 11, 2009Are insect pollinators in trouble, as media reports would have it? According to Elizabeth Elle (above), the answer is a...
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Mad trapper not Canadian - June 11, 2009A page of history is being rewritten in Canada’s far north based on scientific proof that the infamous Mad Trapper was not...
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Gerontologists tackle $30M study - June 11, 2009SFU gerontology researchers are taking part in a major new 20-year study of 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85 to learn how they...
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The accidental AIDS activist - May 28, 2009He has arguably done more than any other student in the university’s history to raise awareness and fundraise on campus for...
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Doctoral grad advances mobile TV - May 28, 2009ChengHsin Hsu dreams of the day when his passion for designing computer networks fires up television broadcasting systems...
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Prof helps combat deadly flu viruses - May 14, 2009Professor Steven Jones is part of a research team that has developed a new computational weapon that will help destroy...
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High hopes for new Drug Research Institute - May 14, 2009Researching and developing a new drug can take as long as 10 years and cost $1 billion or more, which bars many university...
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AIDS partnerships ineffective: field researcher - May 14, 2009Global public-private-partnerships (GP3s) between non-government organizations, drug companies and government institutions...
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Reunited duo roots out diabetes remedy - May 14, 2009Two grad students from the same small town in southeast India who were serendipitously reunited at SFU have discovered a...
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Moo-ve over mousie–the cow is a closer genetic match - May 14, 2009Who knew? It turns out cattle genes are more similar to human genes than those of mice, which have long been used as a model...
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Oil patch hungry for earth science grads - April 30, 2009Russell Goodin (above) completed his MSc thesis in earth sciences in December 2008 and immediately started a high-paying job...
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Scholar to seek Socrates’ secret in San Francisco - April 30, 2009SFU philosophy department chair Mark McPherran will spend the spring semester in 2010 at the University of San Francisco as...
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A Plea for the Bees’ Needs - April 29, 2009The European honeybee is in trouble—one-third of Canadian honeybee colonies are lost each year to Colony Collapse Disorder. Yet...
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Prescription drugs for street addicts? - April 2, 2009Could the increasing misuse of prescription opioids among street-drug users actually benefit public health? That’s the...
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Guppies shed light on scoliosis - April 2, 2009Simon Fraser University Biology professor Felix Breden and PhD student Kristen Fay Gorman have discovered the first animal...
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SFU invention goes to market - April 2, 2009Kinesiologist Andy Hoffer’s Neurostep—a device that dramatically improves the walking gait of people with disabilities such...
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Canada, U.S. need joint climate policy, says study - April 2, 2009Canada must collaborate with the U.S. to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to minimize the impact on the...
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Fish research nets Genome BC award - April 2, 2009SFU evolutionary geneticist Willie Davidson will receive the 2009 Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence April 8 from...
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Physicist tracks spatial illusions - March 19, 2009“All art is one big illusion,” proclaims physicist Bernhard Riecke from his office at the School of Interactive Arts and...
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Banking on Success - March 19, 2009The Bank of Canada has awarded SFU economics professor David Andolfatto (above) with a 2009 research fellowship. Andolfatto’s...
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‘Mommy brain’ volunteers sought - March 19, 2009SFU psychology researchers are seeking volunteers to learn more about a condition popularly known as “mommy brain,” in which...
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Med-chem lab eyes major drug tests - March 19, 2009Scientists at SFU’s new medicinal chemistry research laboratory are close to testing novel drugs to help prevent osteoporosis...
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Citizens’ group maps new global vision for Canada - March 19, 2009A new report by the SFU-based Canada’s World project sets out a bold global vision for Canada, based on the most...
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Antenna technology improves wireless capacity - March 5, 2009A quick check on Wikipedia for slot antenna yields little, but a visit to SFU’s Mobile Communications Lab reveals many...
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Crystal grower earns peer recognition - March 5, 2009Kids of all ages across B.C., even preschoolers, know SFU physicist Simon Watkins as the friendly scientist who makes stuff...
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Healthy older dudes wanted - March 5, 2009While uncommonly cold weather has been making news this winter, SFU exercise physiologist Miriam Clegg is more concerned...
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New health partnership - March 5, 2009SFU has signed a memorandum of understanding with Fraser Health to develop and integrate collaborative training, education...
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Trauma kills a third of avalanche victims: study - March 5, 2009A new study of avalanche deaths in western Canada reveals that trauma causes as many as a third of all fatalities, raising...
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Linguistic cues catch deceivers, not liars - February 19, 2009Can police examiners use linguistic cues to discover whether or not a suspect is lying? SFU forensic linguist Lorna Fadden...
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Poorest fisheries face greatest warming threat: study - February 19, 2009Millions of struggling people in tropical fishery-dependent nations will be hard hit by global warming, according to a new...
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Renowned AIDS researcher to speak - February 19, 2009International AIDS Society president Julio Montaner will give a free public lecture at 12:30 pm, Friday, Mar. 6, at SFU’s...
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Kaiser Foundation: 10 years of giving - February 5, 2009A low-cost eye-tracking system that enables totally paralyzed ALS patients to communicate is just the latest example of how...
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Eco-toxins can help suppress breast cancer - February 5, 2009SFU health sciences researcher Tim Beischlag has found that ubiquitous environmental contaminants such as dioxins and...
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Multi-media project aims to raise awareness of Chinese Head Tax - February 5, 2009SFU’s Learning and Instructional Development Centre (LIDC) is getting $200,000 from Ottawa to fund a multi-media project to...
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Reversing the brain drain - February 5, 2009About 50 SFU graduate students will use data from Boeing Canada’s Richmond-based AeroInfo Systems division to find ways to...
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Turning superbugs into benign bacteria - January 22, 2009SFU molecular biologist Fiona Brinkman and her graduate student Morgan Langille are members of a research team that recently...
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3-D facial animation research aids autistic kids - January 22, 2009Steve DiPaola and his interactive arts and technology students at SFU’s Surrey campus are using computer animation for more...
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Harper faces tough sell with Obama: SFU study - January 22, 2009Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough job convincing U.S. president Barak Obama during his upcoming Ottawa visit...
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Rubbery microchips no stretch - January 22, 2009Last November, engineering science student Ajit Khosla handed his PhD supervisor Bonnie Gray a rubbery five-centimeter...
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Award honours Down syndrome partnership - January 8, 2009Thanks in large part to SFU’s support, the Down Syndrome Research Foundation (DSRF) has received a Canadian Institutes of...
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CIHR chairs to advance key health research - January 8, 2009Two CIHR research chairs—one focusing on the well-being of girls and young women, the other examining how sex, gender and...
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Time is right to address poverty and homelessness - December 11, 2008An economic downturn is the perfect time to tackle poverty, say the co-authors of a new report, A Poverty Reduction Plan for...
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Your PC could soon diagnose diseases - November 27, 2008You’ll soon be able to diagnose illnesses at home as easily as diabetics test their blood sugar levels, using your home...
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Study finds Canadian life deadly for immigrants - November 27, 2008A new study led by SFU researcher Scott Lear suggests that the longer immigrants remain in Canada, the worse their...
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Student group hosting SFU’s first World AIDS Day event - November 27, 2008SFU’s AIDS Awareness Network is hosting SFU’s first World AIDS Day event Dec. 1 at the Burnaby campus with a full schedule of...
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Radical theory attracts global attention - November 27, 2008SFU biologist Bernard Crespi has published a revolutionary theory of brain development that could change the way scientists...
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Feds renew six SFU Canada Research Chairs - November 27, 2008The Canadian government has announced $5.7 million in renewed funding for six of the 38 SFU researchers who hold Tier 1 or...
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AIDS Network nation’s first - November 27, 2008Robert Hogg, an SFU health sciences professor who studies infectious diseases, will head Canada’s first nation-wide HIV/AIDS...
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ACTION for Health internationally recognized - November 27, 2008Earlier this year, communication professor Ellen Balka and her international research team completed a mammoth four-year...
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2008 fulbright awards: Winning eye for fish eyes - November 13, 2008SFU biologist Inigo Novales Flamarique will spend next spring carrying out research as a Fulbright visiting chair in...
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Stress hormone helps during difficult times - November 13, 2008SFU biologists Oliver Love and Tony Williams and colleagues from Trent University discovered that hormones released by...
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SFU’s Energy Harvester is one of 2008’s top inventions - November 13, 2008The Bionic Energy Harvester, a device created by SFU biomedical physiologist Max Donelan and his research team, has made Time...
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Joffres is the salt man - November 13, 2008Health sciences professor Michel Joffres has received the Canadian Cardiovascular Society’s Robert E. Beamish Award for his...
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