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Donations to date for this year's United Way campaign are up slightly over...
Mark Blair Mark Blair is a tenure track assistant professor in the...
And that's understandable,...
Not if Connie Coniglio can help it. The...
Robert Britton Robert Britton is a tenure track assistant professor in the...



SFU conferred four honorary degrees during its 40th anniversary convocation... Alissa Antle Alissa Antle is a tenure-track assistant professor in the...
For some, indecision can be a good thing. Grace Kaur Randhawa, for example,...
When she takes to the podium as one of four student speakers at fall...
SFU celebrates its 40th anniversary convocation ceremonies Oct. 6 and 7...
As you're walking up the steps of the academic quadrangle, a man comes up...
National funding will help a Simon Fraser University-based research group...
With the completion of the technology and science complex 1 (TASC1) the...
A new round of funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will...
Malcolm Kennett Malcolm Kennett joins the physics department as a tenure...
Their path to university started in a valley and ended up on a mountain -...
Faculty within SFU's English department decided to mark the university's 4...
He never met his famous grandfather, but Glenn Woodsworth says his own...
Michael Clague, the former director of Vancouver's Carnegie Community...
Sometimes all you can do is throw your arms wide and shout to the sky, “Why...
Four B.C. communities hard hit by tough economic times are getting back on...
Retired entomologist Thelma Finlayson, who at 91 continues to counsel SFU...
Students, faculty, staff and nearby residents, who are as conscientious...
Watch for two special 40th Anniversary displays from the SFU archives. One...
In 1968, student council members wanted a student referendum to rename SFU...
Radical ideas equal bold initiatives. Among Canadian universities, SFU was:...
Cocktail parties, coffee parties, brunches, luncheons, a Philosophers' Café...
Dress up in neat duds from the 60s and join the happy birthday celebrations...
After two years of archival research, 13 boxes of xeroxed archival material...
SFU staff and faculty are welcome to join SFU alumni on a fall wine tour of...
Ever since the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council announced...
Karl Schmidt was more excited than nervous about speaking at DiGRA, the...
John LaBrie is the new dean of continuing studies, a five-year post he'll...
Books, knowledge and ideas are flying high at the Vancouver Public Library...
One cannot be a principal dancer in the company founded by the 20th-century...
Simon Fraser University researchers figure prominently in a new initiative...
The following new faculty will join SFU over the summer. Thomas Archibald ...
Two recent doctoral graduates of Simon Fraser University are winners of...
To the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations, language and history are one. As fewer...
Award-winning research into hedge funds by SFU business professor Peter...
The first thing you notice upon entering Pat Hibbitts' Strand Hall office...
How far should the outsourcing of jobs from North America to overseas...
A member of the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band, a junior section of the...
This year's campus campaign to raise funds for student scholarships and...
The newly formed SFU Institute for Research on Early Education and Child...
Amy Mundorff, a doctoral student in forensic anthropology at SFU, is the...
Leading edge, culturally sensitive research on education at SFU has caught...
Academe's dynamic duo in the field of disaster preparedness hopes the...
How did humans and worms become genetic relatives? How do molecules in the...
A common misconception about international students attending a Canadian...
Thirty-one researchers at SFU will share $2.7 million in Social Sciences...
SFU is involved in a visionary plan to help the First Nations Haisla people...
Canoe pulling, salmon canning and buckskin dressmaking - they are an...
As he departed SFU last December on a field trip to the remote Afar region...
British Columbia is known around the world for its natural beauty - its
...Young Lee welcomes the SFU community to Viewpoint Marketplace and Florist
...For Natalia Lysenko, winner of the dean of science's convocation medal, her
...A business law class in third year university inspired Melissa Cook to make
...When Joanna Mansbridge gets passionate about something she doesn't mess
...In the Third World, being a field project manager means expecting the
...Which province is doing a better job of protecting the environment:
...Richard Yuqiang Tu's SFU experience began with a Google search.
He had been
...How fast are the nerves in large animals like elephants? Preliminary
...From dancing to acting to practicing psychology may seem a circuitous route
...Next time you squash a mosquito, consider the wealth of information
...After months of campus-wide consultation, Simon Fraser University has a new
...Engineering students at SFU will be able to specialize in the field of
...Jack Blaney
I'm sure what you want me to talk about is exactly how the
...The Royal Society of Canada recently honoured SFU alumna and postdoctoral
...More than 3,150 students will graduate at the convocation ceremonies June1-...
Carly Wintschel is checking her calendar. Achieving the highest grade point...
At first, it is difficult to see past Sonia Stastny's uncommon beauty. The...
A dean's medal is awarded to a top graduating student from each faculty,...
A dean's medal is awarded to a top graduating student from each faculty,...
In class Sheryl Petschl didn't know all the answers even though she was a...
As Iglika Ivanova grew up in her home country of Bulgaria, she witnessed...
As they say in Japan where he's doing postdoctoral kinesiology research,...
The philosophical side of Washington police sergeant Jonathan Wender doesn...
Earning top marks and the highest praise from a faculty member is a rare...
Jessica Tilley is the consummate learner. Winner of the Governor General's...
It's surprising to hear that Samuel Bakhoum had a relatively shaky start to...
Ever since she was a child growing up in Kazakhstan, Alisa Voznaya has...
Chris Bone hopes that his master of science thesis will make the life cycle...
In 1975, one year after moving to Saskatchewan from the United States, Judy...
The family that crams together, stays together. Certainly that's the case...
At age 18, when most students are just beginning their university studies,...
When former president Jack Blaney first contemplated the prospect of...
SFU's arts and social sciences faculty has launched an interdisciplinary...
SFU's annual safety fair has grown to encompass all three campuses, with...
Explore the curriculum changes planned for SFU in September 2006 at the 7th...
Long before Bridget Jones shared her angst-ridden diary with millions of...
Electrical engineering doesn't come to mind as a helping profession but for...
Each semester a handful of co-op students express interest in finding a co...
Three times a year, SFU retiree Elizabeth Carefoot and her marine biologist...
On May 18, as they have done for the past several springs, staff and...
Doctoral student Gina Michaels has won a prestigious Fulbright student...
Four decades after Marshall McLuhan introduced the idea that the medium is...
The appointment of Winnipeg professor Eleanor Stebner as Simon Fraser...
A new study profiling 600 street-level drug traffickers in Vancouver's...
Mothers who are pregnant with boys may be less plagued by forgetfulness -...
A new computer game is taking aim at infectious diseases by teaching young...
One right move at the molecular level in Byron Gates' nanoscience lab and
...B.C. business leader Brandt Louie has been elected chancellor of Simon
...
Eric Swanick, special collections librarian, shows off samples of the Blair... There are more than 30 kilometres of back lanes in Vancouver's downtown
...Imagine being able to go shopping with $40-million of somebody else's money
...For the next 18 months, eight SFU staff and faculty will be travelling to
...A new facility specializing in brain development, with a goal of improving
...“What could be more interesting than building a LEGO robot?” asks Daryl Van
...B.C.'s First Nations languages are among the most complex intellectual
...At 15, Powell River high school student Sosann Blaney had already decided
...SFU's vision for a national high performance sports training centre is one
...Each day, there are 2000 fewer cars driving up to the Burnaby campus than
...A Simon Fraser University spinoff company that is harnessing the good in
...Three SFU researchers recently received New Opportunities funding worth $47...
For 20 sfu students, the classrooms in the academic quadrangle just aren't...
Science and arts and social sciences' students will be joining the SFU...
Scenario: The relatives have come to town and are asking for a deluxe,...
As Nancy McNeil rounds the corner on her way to her office at Simon Fraser...
You could say Patrick Belanger has George W. Bush's speechwriters to thank...
Ingram Jaccard knows a thing or two about global warming having a father -...
When Rudyard Kipling was writing Jungle Book he probably had no idea that...
B.C. voters have a number of important issues to consider when they go to...
A $41.5-million building at the Burnaby campus will house the university's...
His ability to shift shapes sounds like the stuff of science fiction. In...
On the cover of Parin Dossa's new book, Politics and Poetics of Migration,...
Harvard University's overall endow-ment fund stood at $22.6 billion at the...
Need work experience? Want to get involved on campus? Apply now to be a...
Downtown, it's now Simon Fraser University Vancouver. It's been 25 years...
An unusual collaboration between continuing studies, the school of...
Join the English department and writer-in-residence Daphne Marlatt for an...
SFU's engineering science students recently returned home from the western...
Digital entertainment, transforming arts and culture, and urban...
Three outstanding SFU researchers have been awarded Killam research...
2005 operating grant President Michael Stevenson reported that discussions...
After almost 40 years with few retail amenities, the SFU Burnaby campus...
The SFU Clan women's basketball team's season-long winning streak of 38...
You're sitting in a café reading the paper when suddenly your cell phone...
When Klara Schwab left for Calgary to begin her second co-op work term, she...
A report card on immigrant languages and settlement services across Canada...
Betty and Rolly Fox, parents of Terry Fox, pose by a poster of a new $1...
Simon Fraser University scientists are registering a significant reading on...
Ethel Gardner, known as Stelómethet in her Stó:lo aboriginal community, is
...This year's annual Nobel Prize public lecture series marks the centennial
...Jan Verspoor needs to make room in the recognition and awards section of
...There appears to be a huge demand at Simon Fraser University for a full
...Mary Robinson, one of the world's leading advocates for human rights is the
...While B.C. can expect to endure a tsunami at some point in the future,
...A collaboration between SFU and Capilano college's McRae institute of
...Simon Fraser University and the Bill Reid foundation have launched a new
...Each year during June and October convocation ceremonies, SFU awards
...Those students sleeping in the back of the lecture hall may not just be
...
SFU is the first university in Canada to court alumni of Shad Valley - a
...Excavation will begin outside the northeast academic quadrangle in April,
...Forty years ago construction workers were scrambling to finish the new
...SFU is relocating the school for the contemporary arts to the historic
...The sounds of yet more construction south of the science buildings heralds...
Bed bugs, mosquitoes, moths and other tiny pests that wreak untold misery,...
Professor Allan Einstein was in the middle of his physics lecture to a...
How Do I Smell? That's the title of a public lecture to be presented at SFU...
The Great Canadian Gaming Corporation is donating $1 million to support the...
Associate professor of communication Yuezhi Zhao plans to develop a global...
The remainder of 2005 promises interesting times for Daniel Igali. The...
Yolande Grisé is thousands of kilometres away from the home and career she...
Lisa Sterling cites her new position as special adviser and director of...
A paper that sets out a framework for a new early warning system for Sri...
Louise Chappell has a lot on her plate these days. For starters, SFU's new...
Forty years ago, charter student Henry Jack may have been the only First...
Morality - can it be adequately defined? Does it assume superior forces of...
Conceived in the spring of 1942, SFU English professor and Governor General...
B.C.'s forests would greatly benefit from the use of an airborne remote...
The plot in The Day After Tomorrow, a futuristic movie about the
...What if your new boss was young enough to be your kid?
That's the premise
...Families are at the core of Barbara Mitchell's work. It's a focus that is
...Paris Thomas, a communication co-op student who graduated in December, says
...
Lisa Craig joins the department of molecular biology and biochemistry
...When Warren Gill was a child, a visit to grandparents in Nanaimo meant
...Jessica Carey is lost in the 20th century - the 1950s and 1960s to be
...Former SFU board of governors deputy chair John Cowperthwaite and Rudy
...Theodor (Ted) Sterling, emeritus professor and founding chair of Simon
...President Michael Stevenson kicked off the new year with his annual open
...Michael Stevenson has been appointed to a second term as president of Simon
...SFU assistant education professor Ethel Gardner delivered a heartfelt
...A unique dual degree program being offered by Simon Fraser University,
...In its November edition, Vancouver Magazine asked: “Is the city too pretty...
Learn about the challenges and opportunities facing SFU in an open forum...
There are now 770,000 fulltime university students in Canada according to...
She's not promising there will be chocolates on the pillows, but Connie...
Aid for tsunami victims and the prospects of rebuilding regions of South...
Ian Gipson, a game programmer with Radical Entertainment, was impressed...
Panelists painted a disturbing picture of colonialism's past and present...
Each year SFU presents three excellence in teaching awards to top teachers...
For the 66 women studying engineering science at SFU, Bozena Kaminska,...
The world is a dangerous place. Tsunamis, earthquakes, coups, wars and...
Autonomous robots, computerized special effects, and a vehicle capable of...
Years of commitment to SFU and devotion to their work that goes beyond the...
The chair of the board of governors, Brandt Louie, has been nominated for...
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. has pledged $1 million to support a new arthritis...
Flags flew at half mast in early January as the SFU community expressed its...
The Ukraine's second presidential election held Dec. 26 was monitored by...
Simon Fraser University is bringing its popular free city program public...
A world championship is the next goal for one group of SFU students, who...
Do you know someone who is controversial? Nominations are being sought for...
First Nations student centre director Sasha Hobbs is heartened by a recent...
Need a shot of bold and bright scenery to counter the winter blues? A...
“And how are you today?” asks Parminder Singh Parhar, his warm eyes and...
Patrick Lussier Patrick Lussier joins the department of criminology as a...
Steven Jones
Leora Kuttner
Bruce Robertson
Shauna Sylvester
Jan Verspoor
Each
...Studies of DNA from bison fossils show that the development of ice sheets
...When cartoon character Pat Thagorus is stuck on Square Root X mountain,
...SFU's museum of archaeology and ethnology is taking the archaeology out of
...Canadian high school students with a graduating average of 80 per cent are...