Alumni winners seek better health, cities, social justice

For professional achievement: Dr. Robert Armstrong, BSc (Hons) '75, chief of pediatric medicine at B.C. Children's Hospital, for his role in advancing health care for children. He is the founding chair of the National Coalition for Child & Youth Health and helped establish B.C.'s Provincial Child Health Network.

For public service: Larry Beasley, BA '73, former senior city planner for the city of Vancouver, for his role in shaping Vancouver. Beasley's downtown "living first strategy" doubled the inner-city population and established Vancouver as a model for new urbanism.

For service to the community: Dr. Sarah England, MBA '97, a humanitarian and health activist with the World Health Organization, for her work towards global vaccination for children and the eradication of global tuberculosis.

For arts and culture: Roy Miki, MA '70, an SFU professor, poet/writer and advocate for social justice. In 2006, Miki's writing and voluntary contributions were recognized with SFU's Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy, the Gandhi Peace award and induction into the Order of Canada.

For outstanding student leadership: Dua'a Riyal, an SFU science student from Amman, Jordan, who hopes her forestry-related research will lead to new ways of breeding trees that can replenish and preserve the world's rapidly deteriorating ecosystem.