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TransLink Eyes Messaging Service - March 22, 2007
TransLink may be scrapping its malfunctioning electronic bus-schedule boards at city bus stops, but it's enthusiastic about a...

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Natural Resources Canada salutes SFU - March 22, 2007
To Sam Dahabieh (above) and all of SFU's facilities management team, a recent award for energy conservation from Natural...

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China proved fascinating for faculty exchange professor - March 21, 2007
As the first faculty exchange professor to teach at Zhejiang University, SFU computing science professor Stella Atkins was...

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Local History of Sex Work - April 5, 2007
A multimedia art installation and book, chronicling the history of Vancouver sex workers, will première April 12 at the...

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Support First Nations - April 5, 2007
When Kelvin Redvers, a member of the Métis nation, arrived at the Burnaby campus last year from Hay River, Northwest...

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New chair in religion and culture - January 11, 2007
A $1 million gift from the Jarislowsky Foundation will be matched by SFU to create a $2-million endowment to support the...

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CUFA seeks award nominations - January 11, 2007
The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia will accept nominations until Feb. 7 for the...

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Real estate funds health and education research projects - January 11, 2007
Two large-scale research projects that could help revolutionize Canadian medical procedures and B.C. educational policies are...

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Wind tunnel for the birds - January 11, 2007
SFU biologist Tony Williams is helping to build Canada's first bird wind tunnel, which will help evaluate how climate change...

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New registrar confirmed - January 11, 2007
SFU's board of governors has approved Kathleen (Kate) Ross as the university's new registrar and senior director of student...

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New Canada Research chairs for REM and health sciences - January 11, 2007
With the media trumpeting wildly conflicting messages almost daily about climate change and its potential consequences, where...

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Math girl returns! - January 11, 2007
In Episode 1: Differentials Attract, our superhero used linear approximation to rescue her pal Pat Thagorus from Square Root...

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CFI funds Percival and Pinto - January 11, 2007
Two SFU researchers figured prominently in a recent funding proposal approved by the federal government's Canada Foundation...

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Ethnic seniors face health hurdles - January 11, 2007
Ethnic minority seniors face a number of barriers when it comes to accessing health care, according to an SFU study. ...

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Punjabi classes attract local politicians - January 11, 2007
NDP MLAs Sue Hammell (right)  (Surrey Green Timbers) and Bruce Ralston (Surrey Whalley) were among the many students...

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SFU physicists first to find single top quark - January 11, 2007
SFU's high-energy physics group has detected for the first time the elusive, singly produced top quark, a discovery that may...

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Gift whiz - New director of planned giving onboard in March - January 25, 2007
Doug Puffer (far right) believes "philanthropy can make the difference between the maintenance of a great university and the...

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Last chance for Sterling nominations - January 25, 2007
Show your support for work that challenges complacency and/or presents alternative ways of looking the world.  ...

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New program in dialogue & negotiation - January 25, 2007
Name almost any world, national or local conflict and you'll usually hear someone saying the situation needs more dialogue....

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Flag Chevrolet lecture theatre - January 25, 2007
A $100,000 gift from Flag Chevrolet owners Sherrold and Marina Haddad will support a 100-seat lecture theatre at SFU Surrey...

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Students receive robotics, intelligent systems funding - January 25, 2007
Four SFU grad students recently received $7,500 scholarships for robotics and intelligent systems research. The funds are...

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Community Service Awarded - January 25, 2007
SFU Business student affairs officer Sam Thiara (right) received a prestigious Governor General's Caring Canadian volunteer...

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High-tech toys - January 25, 2007
Assistant computing science professor Jian Pei (left), student James Galbraith and course TA Ming Hua play with tablet PCs...

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President Dean - January 25, 2007
The Statistical Society of Canada recently elected SFU professor of statistics and actuarial science, Charmaine Dean, as its ...

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Students' recruitment efforts win kudos and cash - January 25, 2007
Computing science students Jen Fernquist (left) and Angelica Lim and recently received major bursaries acknowledging their...

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Alumni winners seek better health, cities, social justice - January 25, 2007
SFU's alumni association will celebrate four outstanding alumni and a science graduate student during its 2006 Outstanding...

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Radio reunion seeks alumni - January 25, 2007
Calling all veterans of SFU's campus radio station CJSF and its predecessor CKSF: Original manager Brian Antonson is speaking...

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North American universities team up to study volcanoes - January 25, 2007
For the first time at SFU, volcanologists-in-training from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are studying volcanic hazards together...

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At the intersection of technology + culture - January 25, 2007
Kate Milberry had just been pepper-sprayed during an anti-globalization protest she was covering for an alternative newspaper...

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Getting behind the virtual wheel - January 25, 2007
In Tom Spalek's new lab, drivers buckle up and hit a virtual highway. As they travel, researchers observe their stress levels...

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Disaster master focusing on tsunamis here and overseas - January 25, 2007
The 2004 South Asian tsunami has triggered new approaches to handling emergency warnings—in B.C., as well as countries...

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Community Trust has new leader - January 25, 2007
Gordon Harris, an award-winning, Vancouver-based urban planner and real estate consultant, is the new head of the SFU...

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Career services rebranding means increased flexibility - January 25, 2007
Howie Outerbridge knows how to find a job. Before he joined SFU in 2002, he'd found work as a teen counsellor with Princess...

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Book dedicated to Thelma Finlayson - January 25, 2007
Gail Anderson's first book, Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group/SFU Publications, ...

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Gung haggis fat choy! - January 25, 2007
Burns Day revellers at SFU Burnaby Jan. 25 will get a taste of the national Scottish event with a distinctly Asian flavour,...

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High-security crime research centre to open - January 25, 2007
It's not quite ready yet. But when SFU's new Centre for Forensic Studies in the new arts and social sciences complex (ASSC1)...

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Take that! - February 7, 2007
Francis Campbell was as ubiquitous as the haggis during SFU's Robbie Burns Days celebrations Jan. 25, honouring the 248th...

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Layton visits Surrey campus - February 7, 2007
Federal NDP leader Jack Layton addressed a packed lecture theatre Jan. 26 at the Surrey campus, where he regaled an...

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New funds for international travel - February 7, 2007
SFU undergraduate Chisa Katsuki traveled to Mozambique in January for a three-month international co-op position she arranged...

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Thwarting disaster in a forbidding world - February 7, 2007
This spring, SFU earth sciences PhD student Denny Capps will fly by ski plane into the remote Alaskan wilderness where he is...

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New head coach for Clan football team - February 7, 2007
David Johnson is the new head coach of the SFU Clan football team. The former UBC Thunderbirds coach and Clan linebacker...

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For new logo, SFU turns to a Canadian icon - February 7, 2007
To create the unique typeface used in the three-initial logo for its new brand, SFU turned to an equally matchless icon: one...

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Honouring distinguished service - February 7, 2007
SFU will honour credit union president Barry Forbes and urban planner Ray Spaxman with Chancellor's Distinguished Service...

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Second DVD recalls SFU's early years - February 7, 2007
The SFU Retiree Association is publicly premiering its second video disc in as many years on the university's early history,...

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Fishy behaviour - February 7, 2007
A new study in the February 2007 American Naturalist, co-authored by SFU biologists Suzanne Gray and Lawrence Dill,...

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New brand to be university standard - February 7, 2007
The SFU Board of Governors passed the following motion to bring the new logo and tagline into being:    ...

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SFU launches new brand - February 7, 2007
SFU today unveiled its new logo, wordmark and tagline, designed to convey a single and consistent brand identity.  ...

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SFU's grand lady of science on DVD - May 17, 2007
Fans of entomology professor emerita Thelma Finlayson (above) will want to grab the SFU Retiree Association's latest DVD ...

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Varanasi: the holiest Hindu city - February 22, 2007
The first SFU Field School in Contemporary Art and Culture of India left Vancouver on January 18 for eight weeks in Varanasi,...

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Sex, Tears and the Courtship of Mice - February 22, 2007
From silk worms and love-sick mice, biological scientist Kazushige Touhara expands our understanding of olfaction, the...

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Board elects new chair and deputy chair - February 22, 2007
SFU's board of governors has elected Nancy McKinstry as its new chair and Michael Francis as deputy chair, effective Feb. 2....

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Clickers not clicking in class - February 22, 2007
If you've seen the TV show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, you know about the personal response systems (PRSs) or "clickers"...

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Thinking of the world - February 22, 2007
It was unveiled publicly just two weeks ago, but the two stewards of SFU's new brand say prior planning has prevented any...

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Cory Doctorow: Iconoclast of the blogosphere - February 22, 2007
Perhaps you already have a blog, a personal web log. Imagine what it would be like if two million people read your blog every...

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Awards honour SFU staff for significant achievements - February 22, 2007
Each year, SFU honours staff who have made outstanding contributions to the university and the community. This year,...

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Awards honour SFU staff for significant achievements-part 2 - February 22, 2007
With only a modest budget but plenty of enthusiasm, vision and voluntary commitment, the 40th anniversary open house...

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We're no safer post-9/11 - February 22, 2007
Despite costly new measures aimed at protecting North America from another terrorist attack like 9/11, it is doubtful that...

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Apaak gets power of peace medal - February 22, 2007
Clement Abas Apaak, an SFU archeology instructor and former president of the SFU Student Society, recently received a YMCA...

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Human trials put movement one step closer for disabled - February 22, 2007
It will be the result of 30 years of research—human trials this month for the first fully implanted device that could restore...

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Dissecting frogs, with feeling - March 8, 2007
Like most students, Nasim Vafai had to dissect a frog in high school. "But I didn't learn anything," says the engineering...

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Landmark book history project wraps up - March 8, 2007
It has taken six long years, but one of this country's great scholarly projects is now complete, with the recent publication...

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Aqua gold - March 8, 2007
SFU swim and dive team members hooked gold medals as well as championship titles in the National Association of...

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Jedwab's counting collects kudos - March 8, 2007
In March, SFU associate professor of math Jonathan Jedwab receives the Hall medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its...

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Churchill enthusiasm - March 8, 2007
Listen to bibliographer Ron Cohen (above) discuss his 22-year mission to identify every edition, issue, state and printing of...

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MoMo club - March 8, 2007
Every other Monday, the computing science conference room at SFU's Burnaby campus is packed with undergrads preparing for the...

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No clan radio coverage? No problem - March 8, 2007
When Vancouver radio station AM 730 moved to a 24-hour traffic format last December, ending its coverage of the SFU Clan's...

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Book boom - March 8, 2007
There must be something in the water cooler in SFU's English department, or perhaps it's just the publish-or-perish...

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Swim away from the female, sucker - March 8, 2007
SFU fish biologist Inigo Novales Flamarique has discovered that an unusual fish in the Colorado River, the razorback sucker,...

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SFU News survey winners - March 8, 2007
Thanks to the many staff, faculty and students who filled out the recent SFU News survey. We're busy tallying the results and...

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Osborne appointed legal affairs VP - March 8, 2007
SFU's board of governors has approved the appointment of Judith Osborne as VP-legal affairs. Osborne had been interim VP...

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A controlling interest - March 8, 2007
How does an independent university system become increas-ingly answerable to the state? Join former SFU historian Hannah Gay,...

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Inflation erodes budget - March 8, 2007
The B.C. government's recent commitment to fund more graduate-student seats will take some of the sting out of what was...

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Competition drives Angerilli's three Rs - March 8, 2007
Recruiting. Retaining. Revitalizing. These are the three Rs Nello Angerilli is targeting as SFU's new VP-students and...

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Teaching excellence through excellence in teaching - March 21, 2007
Students can't say enough good things about art education professor Stuart Richmond. As a veteran of several courses with him...

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Dual-degree program worth the challenge - March 21, 2007
Eighteen months ago, David Carlson had never spoken a word of Mandarin. Now he speaks it every day on campus at Zhejiang...

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New insight into DNA replication - March 21, 2007
It turns out the same mathematical approach used to construct actuarial tables for worst-case disaster scenarios can also be...

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Top Cookie - March 21, 2007
Pam Borghardt, associate director of operations for IRMACS, was awarded the 2007 "Making a Difference for Women" award from...

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Green Influence - April 5, 2007
Mark Jaccard, an economist and SFU professor of resource and environmental management, ranks 13th on the Financial Post...

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Events Enthusiasm - April 5, 2007
Staffer Gloria Chu, associate director of ceremonies and events, was named Outstanding New Conference and Events Professional...

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Shave for the brave - April 5, 2007
They came, they saw, they shaved. SFU men's volleyball club members Adam Chateauvert, Wylen Wong (above), Andrew Clauson and...

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Light up your wallet - April 5, 2007
Is your bright idea worth $5,000? BC Hydro is inviting students, staff and faculty at SFU and UBC to contribute suggestions...

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Student on tour with Riverdance - April 5, 2007
Yvonne Lynch walked away from her third-year kinesiology studies at SFU this semester but she's not dragging her feet. ...

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Running for Terry in Cuba - April 5, 2007
He was there on business. But while Robert Huish was in Havana last month he also participated in something immediately...

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Found art - April 5, 2007
Alongside the AQ sidewalk on the Burnaby campus is a found-objects sculpture made of old tennis equipment, vacuum cleaners...

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Mobility trip an eye opener - April 5, 2007
Heather Skibeneckyi says her recent international staff-mobility trip to compare notes on administrative technologies with...

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Krebs honoured for teaching and leadership - April 5, 2007
He scores high marks in the classroom but Dennis Krebs, SFU's latest 3M teaching fellowship recipient, likes to think his...

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Honorary SFU degrees - April 5, 2007
Douglas Coupland, novelist, playwright and visual artist best known for his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales...

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Distinguished leader - April 5, 2007
B.C. business leader Peter Bentley will receive the 2007 SFU President's Distinguished Community Leadership Award at a...

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Fund the future - April 5, 2007
The SFU 2007 campus fundraising campaign is under way, and campaign chair Jon Driver, dean of graduate studies, says this is...

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Athletes of the year - May 3, 2007
Christensen and track star Ruky Abdulai (photo) were named SFU male and female athletes of the year during an awards gala...

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Earth scientist honoured - May 3, 2007
This month, the Geological Association of Canada (GAC) will award SFU earth sciences professor John Clague with Canada's most...

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Race to the top - May 3, 2007
She juggled classes, acclimatized in a sauna, postponed assignments and mid-terms, and flew more than 16,000 km across two...

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Tackling issues in West Africa - May 3, 2007
Lindsay Anne Zibrik is travelling about 12,000 km outside her comfort zone this summer and she's a bit anxious about it. ...

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A new dean for health sciences - May 3, 2007
The Faculty of Health Sciences has a new dean. SFU's board of governors recently approved the five-year appointment of...

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Alan Twigg next Shadbolt fellow - May 3, 2007
SFU has named Alan Twigg, author, filmmaker and publisher of the influential arts tabloid BC BookWorld, as the second...

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Steppin' out steps up - May 3, 2007
Surrey campus grad student Douglas Grant presents his interactive film proposal this week at the prestigious sagasnet...

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Can you give the gift of life? - May 3, 2007
SFU geography student James Erlandsen, diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in February, desperately needs a...

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Miki gets career achievement award - May 3, 2007
SFU English professor Roy Miki, a Governor General award-winning poet, received a career achievement award April 11 from the...

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First Paul Tai Yip Ng award - May 3, 2007
Education doctoral student Paul Yeung has won the first Paul Tai Yip Ng memorial award. The $1,200 award recognizes the best...

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Labour shortage answer: Hire more tradeswomen - May 3, 2007
B.C.'s critical skilled trades shortage could be eased from within its own labour force if trades employers hired more...

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Earth Day highlights salmon, trees - May 3, 2007
Reforestation and watershed restoration were the focus of Earth Day activities at SFU's Burnaby campus Friday, April 20, two...

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IBM gives $5-million in technology - May 3, 2007
Crime-research duo Patricia and Paul Brantingham have received a $5-million technology donation from IBM to create a new...

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Riding to break the cycle - May 17, 2007
Five SFU students and recent grads are among the 22 cyclists pedaling from Vancouver to Tijuana, Mexico to raise $1 million...

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Students give support in Ghana - May 17, 2007
SFU students An Minh Vu and Chantel Smiechowski are on a field study/international development project in Ghana, West Africa,...

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SFU chemist makes Top 40 Under 40 list - May 17, 2007
SFU chemistry professor Neil Branda has been named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40, a national program that celebrates people...

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Visa troubles thwart Iraqi doctor's SFU visit - May 17, 2007
It was like having a party without the guest of honour. Riyadh Lafta, an Iraqi epidemiologist whose research on civilian...

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Environmentalism goes interactive - May 17, 2007
An interactive art display created by a fourth-year class at SFU's School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) will...

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Sports hall of fame to induct Igali - May 17, 2007
Daniel Igali, Canadian Olympic wrestling champion and SFU graduate student, will be inducted next fall into Canada's Sports...

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SFU board's first international student member - May 17, 2007
SFU board of governors student representative-elect, Clement Apaak, made history last month when he became the first...

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Cancer widower becomes cancer fighter - May 31, 2007
Greg Stazyk’s graduation from SFU this spring can never compensate for the loss of his beloved partner of 11 years and wife...

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Perseverance pays off for co-op veteran - June 1, 2007
The lure of high educational standards drew international student Shaghayegh (Charlene) Yousefi to Canada from her homeland,...

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Curiosity fuels silver medallist - June 1, 2007
In the midst of a transcript riddled with A+s in sciences, you’ll find a rare contingent of courses that have nothing to do...

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Engineering a simpler computer - June 1, 2007
Making computers simpler to use is part of Vincent Chu’s grand plan. The Governor General’s Silver Medal recipient is...

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First health sciences winner heads to medical school - June 1, 2007
Well water in one region of the Lower Mainland could come under greater scrutiny following a study by one of the first...

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Fishing for better salmon manageme - June 1, 2007
Carrie Holt has a better idea for managing the Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery. This year’s Dean of Graduate Studies...

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Mammoth hunter gets perfect GPA - June 1, 2007
"I am knee deep in office paper some days and knee deep in mud, collecting woolly mammoth teeth, other days—and loving every...

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Unravelling genetics - June 1, 2007
Scientists caught up in pure science are often seeking answers to difficult questions such as whether it was the chicken or...

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Revolutionizing computer vision software - June 1, 2007
A computer can watch a video, but it doesn’t know what it’s looking at. "Today’s computer vision systems have a hard time...

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Darwin successor wins gold medal - June 1, 2007
The breadth and impact of Patrik Nosil’s doctoral research into how plant and animal species diversify may have some...

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An accidental scholar - June 1, 2007
For someone so passionate now about the value of a liberal arts education Sarah Hickinbottom sometimes wonders how she ever...

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For the love of parasites - June 1, 2007
Dustin Anderson has two academic loves—disease-causing parasites and neuroscience—and not necessarily in that order. But if...

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Mentored scholar pays it forward - June 1, 2007
One good teacher can make all the difference. And for Corey Dekker that teacher was SFU political scientist David Macdonald,...

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SFU honours five with degrees - June 1, 2007
Douglas Coupland Novelist, playwright and visual artist best known for his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales...

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MBA opens door to a 6th career - June 1, 2007
It would be a stunner on any résumé. A cumulative grade point average of 4.242, just shy of a perfect 4.33, is the top mark...

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Basketball star jumps to Oxford - June 1, 2007
It’s a big jump from the SFU gym to the hallways of Oxford University, but Courtney Brown is poised to make the leap. The...

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2007 undergraduate Deans’ medallists - June 1, 2007
Undergraduate Deans’ Convocation medals recognize graduating students from each faculty whose cumulative grade point averages...

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2007 Shrum medallist is MIT bound - June 1, 2007
The field of engineering science is drawing more than a few good women—and Shirin Farrahi is one of them. She is also an...

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North Van boy finds calling at SIAT - June 1, 2007
Community. That’s what the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) means to Andrew Drinkwater. When he first started...

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Poet, Teacher, Activist, Scholar - June 1, 2007
A published poet, a gifted teacher, and a student activist—Myka Tucker-Abramson is all of these. And now the master of arts...

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2007 convocation student speakers - June 1, 2007
Carla Botteselle (above) has a simple motto: Take advantage of every opportunity. That spirit of adventure led to...

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Student device takes guess work out of backing up - June 1, 2007
Graduating SFU engineering science undergrad, Fred Yu, has invented an automobile backup alert system that does everything...

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Co-op education in Botswana - June 1, 2007
For many of us, reading about AIDS and HIV is enough, but not for Kayla Donnawell. She has to throw herself right into the...

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Facing adversity with an unwavering spirit - June 1, 2007
Julia Wilson appears to have it all. She’s young, attractive, an accomplished athlete and scholar—but also modest, soft...

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SFU’s YWCA women of distinction - June 14, 2007
Three of SFU’s finest were recognized recently with prestigious YWCA of Vancouver Women of Distinction awards.  ...

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New international studies school open in September - June 14, 2007
With his background, John Harriss would be welcome as a faculty member at any university in the world. But he chose SFU. ...

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Kitchen gardening, Harbour Centre-style - June 14, 2007
Vancouver campus staffers Susanne Nahm (left) and Kirsten Masse donned gardening gloves in the continuing studies kitchen...

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Outstanding alumni sought for annual awards - June 14, 2007
You’ll find them in the ghettos of Brazil, at the top of corporations, or tucked away in labs designing the latest...

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Order of B.C. recipients have SFU ties - June 14, 2007
Two women with long-standing SFU connections and careers tackling issues of social relevance are among the 2007 recipients of...

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PoliSci grad addresses international congress - June 14, 2007
Seasoned academics, policy makers and professionals were so impressed with Stéphanie Anne-Gaëlle Vieille’s master’s thesis in...

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Science AL!VE A gateway for future alumni - June 14, 2007
When Aimee Kumpula went to summer science camp at SFU in 1994 she never imagined she’d be running the program 12 years later....

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SFUFA members get retirement choices - June 14, 2007
Margaret Jackson is breathing a sigh of relief that she won’t have to close the door on her career just yet. The professor of...

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New UniverCity boss reaches for the mountaintop - June 14, 2007
Gordon Harris is at the peak of his game on Burnaby Mountain.          ...

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Professor becomes freshman - June 14, 2007
What happens when a long-time professor takes a year out to attend university as a student — living in a co-ed dorm,...

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Health policy and industrial math chairs named - June 14, 2007
Two leading researchers, one a specialist in the development of children’s health policy and the other an industrial...

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SFU News has new home online - June 14, 2007
After months of preparation and fine-tuning SFU News has broken away from its online mother ship, the Public Affairs and...

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Celebrating with dance - June 14, 2007
Cherith Mark strikes a dance pose while waiting to participate in a traditional First Nations graduate-honouring ceremony on...

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Clayman honoured - June 28, 2007
Bruce Clayman, an SFU professor who became the first president and CEO at the Great Northern Way campus (2004-06), is this...

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Ex-con alumnus wins first Allard award - June 28, 2007
Ex-junkie cum SFU-trained criminologist Tom Allen received the first annual Pierre Allard Award in May.   ...

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Excellence in teaching - June 28, 2007
Physics professor Neil Alberding (right) and mathematics professor Michael Monagan (left) are the winners of this year’s...

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Biologist, cyclist & new associate v-p, research - June 28, 2007
Every day for the past 14 years, biology professor Norbert Haunerland (left) has biked the 12.5 kilometers from his home near...

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CIDA honours SFU's Debbie Bell - June 28, 2007
A Continuing Studies program recently received a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) award for international...

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Trudeau scholarship winner - June 28, 2007
Sherri Brown’s doctoral research has the potential to save millions of lives. And the passion with which the SFU PhD student...

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Best in the World - SFU News online special - July 9, 2007
SFU Business assistant professor Rekha Krishnan’s PhD thesis examining trust and international alliance performance recently...

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Co-op students win IABCS - July 12, 2007
Two SFU communication co-op education students scooped up Student Communicator of the Year awards in both the internal and...

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SFU loses great thinker and commentator - July 12, 2007
SFU psychologist Barry Beyerstein, a much-admired professor and well-known media commentator, died Monday, June 25 from...

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NSERC accelerates cell research and B.C. salmon conservation - July 12, 2007
A pair of SFU researchers poised to make breakthroughs in their fields have been singled out as recipients of NSERC’s new...

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SIAT scores at D.C. conference - July 26, 2007
School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) faculty and students were a significant presence at the annual Creativity...

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International Fellow - July 26, 2007
Dan Weeks, associate professor and chair of SFU’s psychology department, will be inducted as an International Fellow of the...

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Surrey grad rethinks views on homeless - July 26, 2007
When Erin Harron (above) wrote her thesis last year she hit the streets of downtown Surrey, not the library or the Internet,...

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Endowment pays tribute to Laurine Harrison - July 26, 2007
Family and friends of the late Laurine Harrison, ombudsperson for the Simon Fraser Student Society, are establishing an...

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Staffer spends 11 months down under - July 26, 2007
For Marilyn Trautman (above), a graduate and long-term employee of SFU, an 11-month job exchange at Australian National...

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Arts medalists - July 26, 2007
Criminology professor Raymond Corrado, linguistics professor Trude Heift and assistant professor of English Peter Dickinson...

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CIA spied on former SFU professor - July 26, 2007
A former SFU professor was among numerous Canadian university faculty and students whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ...

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Burnaby phones change next month - July 26, 2007
8As of Aug. 13, SFU’s new area code and prefiix numbers (778 and 772) will be in effect at the Burnaby campus, completing the...

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Mark your calendars! - July 26, 2007
Saturday, May 31, 2008. That’s when SFU will open its doors to the world for Open House 2008 at the Burnaby campus. The theme...

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Thinking of the world, miles from home - August 3, 2007
They haven’t had much time for sightseeing. But Cambodian MEd. students Chan Tola and Sen Vicheth and their Laotian colleague...

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History professor succumbs to leukemia - August 7, 2007
Ian Dyck, 1954-2007, associate professor of history, passed away Sunday, July 15, 2007 after a long battle with leukemia. He...

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MacLeans taking Swiss sabbatical - August 10, 2007
Outgoing health sciences dean, David MacLean, and wife Sandra MacLean, an SFU associate professor of political science, are...

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Research-star mom garners more funding - August 14, 2007
Even with two small children to care for, Fiona Brinkman continues to snag prestigious and lucrative research awards for...

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Paul Merrick: Putting people in the picture - August 15, 2007
Simon Fraser University received a wonderful gift from Joe Segal, its chancellor emeritus, and his family: the heritage Bank...

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Sweet award - September 7, 2007
Sam Thiara (above) is an Indo-Canadian who marches to the beat of his own drum with the British Columbia Regiment Irish Pipes...

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Cormack: New dean of arts & social sciences - September 7, 2007
Lesley Cormack brings a real sense of history with her from Edmonton as she begins her new job as dean of SFU’s Faculty of...

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SFU IN THE NEWS - (Aug. 31-Sept. 7, 2007) - September 7, 2007
BACK TO SCHOOL
SFU experts were quoted often and long as BC and national media carried back-to-school and off-to-university...

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Disaster master plans for the worst - September 7, 2007
Catherine Christensen (above) has a knack for starting new jobs in the middle of a crisis.      ...

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William D. Richards, 1948-2007 - September 11, 2007
Professor Bill Richards of the School of Communication died of injuries sustained in an accident at his home on August 23....

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SFU lecturer heads Million Dollar Round Table - September 13, 2007
Vancouver financial planner and SFU guest lecturer, Jim Rogers, has been appointed president of the Million Dollar Round...

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SFU IN THE NEWS - (September 7-14, 2007) - September 14, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Sept. 7-14, 2007             ...

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Dugan O’Neil: Innovator - September 20, 2007
O’Neil, assistant professor of physics, who broke new ground in particle physics, was named BC Innovation Council’s 2007...

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Early behaviour plays role in sex re-offending - September 20, 2007
The early life histories of sexual offenders can shed light on whether they will become repeat offenders. They also raise new...

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New dean of Business - September 20, 2007
SFU’s board of governors has approved the appointment of Glen Whyte as dean of SFU Business, commencing Jan. 1, 2008....

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Wheelchair athlete Jessica Des Mazes: Terry Fox medallist - September 20, 2007
Jessica Des Mazes ventured to northern Canada in the summer of 2004 to fight fires and earn money for her university tuition....

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - (September 14-21, 2007) - September 21, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Sept. 14-21, 2007         ...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - (September 21-28, 2007) - September 28, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Sept. 21-28, 2007        ...

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Hot Air takes on climate change debate - October 4, 2007
A new book co-written by SFU energy expert Mark Jaccard (above left) and national journalist Jeffrey Simpson (above right) is...

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From torture to triumph, many miles from home - October 4, 2007
Mohammad Nasser Jahani Asl’s convocation this month with a master’s degree in education is the culmination of a life of...

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Student recruiter walks the talk - October 4, 2007
When Lyndsey Thompson (above), BSc ’07, speaks about the benefits of an SFU education to an audience of high school students,...

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Canadian students for Darfur - October 4, 2007
Since February 2004, more than two million men, women and children have fled a bloody conflict in Darfur, Africa to live on...

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Singing for his degree - October 4, 2007
For SFU chorister Ben Ong (above), who has been belting out the national anthem at convocation ceremonies for the past 10...

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Word nerd shares foreign language secrets - October 4, 2007
She calls herself the "word nerd." It’s an apt description for someone who collects new Canadian words and contributes them...

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Biotech whiz eyes bright future - October 4, 2007
Chris Thachuk (above) learned something about himself while working as a co-op student at software companies during his...

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Stephen Jarislowsky - Honorary Degree Recipient - October 4, 2007
Fund manager and philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky is a legend in the Canadian investment community and one of the country’s...

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Richard Lipsey - Honorary Degree Recipient - October 4, 2007
Richard Lipsey, an economist and SFU professor emeritus, will receive a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, on Thursday, October 4...

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Ray Hyman - Honorary Degree Recipient - October 4, 2007
Ray Hyman, considered one of the world’s leading skeptics, will receive a doctor of science, honoris causa, on Thursday, Oct....

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United Church at Cornerstone - October 4, 2007
Ellesmere United Church has just moved from its old location in Burnaby’s Capitol Hill area to the Cornerstone building...

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Overcoming obstacles - October 4, 2007
When Parinaaz Deboo (right) addresses her fellow graduands at the Oct. 5 convocation ceremony for the faculties of Business...

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Out on a limb - October 4, 2007
Most of the people Kyle Jackson will address at SFU’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Oct. 4 convocation ceremony have...

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Detour through Siberia - October 4, 2007
Brittany Nielsen was supposed to convocate last June, but she would have had a rather long commute. Because while most of her...

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2007 Sterling prize winner - October 4, 2007
Bruce Alexander, SFU professor emeritus of psychology and a pioneer in human addiction research, is the 2007 winner of the...

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SFU novelist long-listed for Giller Prize - October 4, 2007
David Chariandy, an assistant professor of English at SFU, is in the running for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His first...

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Downtown eastside doctor wins humanitarian award - October 4, 2007
Dr. James Chi Ming Pau, whose dedication to providing health and support services to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside residents...

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Symposium sheds light on obscure B.C. war - October 4, 2007
Marianne Ignace and her husband Ron wove a rich verbal tapestry of aboriginal mythology and historical perspective last month...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - October 4, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2007       ...

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It’s all in the translation - October 4, 2007
Liz Bolton, at bottom of steps, and Beth Humchitt, top, partnered with fellow student Andrew Speck to translate and record...

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Brian Hayden elected to Royal Society of Canada - October 4, 2007
Archeologist Brian Hayden is the latest SFU faculty member to be elected to the Royal Society of Canada, now the RSC:...

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After Tiananmen, SFU grad now living the Canadian dream - October 4, 2007
When Zhongxiu (Alice) He receives her English PhD diploma during SFU’s Oct.4 convocation ceremonies it will mark a defining...

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SFU People in the news - October 12, 2007 - October 12, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Oct. 5-12, 2007        ...

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Questioning Hydro’s move to privatize - October 18, 2007
John Calvert (above) is sounding the death knell on secure, reliable and affordable public electricity in B.C.  ...

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Why do you think SFU is a winning employer? - October 18, 2007
Fiona Brinkman, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | I was attracted to SFU because I saw it as a...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - October 19, 2007 - October 19, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Oct. 12-19, 2007               ...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS October 26, 2007 - October 26, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Oct. 19-26, 2007               ...

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Wosk’s spirit honoured - October 30, 2007
The Vancouver Board of Trade has honored Yosef Wosk, SFU continuing studies director of interdisciplinary programs, with a 20...

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Daniel Igali inducted into Sports Hall of Fame - October 31, 2007
SFU graduate student and wrestler Daniel Igali (above right), who won Olympic gold for Canada seven years ago, was inducted...

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Surrey's youngest donor - November 1, 2007
At age 28, Dale Regehr, president and CEO of WestStone Properties, is the largest and youngest donor to SFU’s Surrey campus....

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National award for SFU librarian - November 1, 2007
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has named SFU associate university librarian Brian Owen the winner of...

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How to help students stay and succeed - November 1, 2007
The numbers are sobering: more than 30 per cent of SFU’s undergraduates leave before completing a degree — 22 per cent before...

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SFU professor chairs national committee on mental health - November 1, 2007
Health Sciences professor Elliot Goldner (above) is poised to play a key role in improving mental health for Canadians as...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS November 2, 2007 - November 2, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Oct. 26-Nov. 2, 2007        ...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS November 9, 2007 - November 9, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Nov. 2-9, 2007               ...

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CUFA seeks award nominations - November 14, 2007
The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA BC) is accepting nominations until Jan. 21, 20...

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AIDS grandmothers inspire grad student - November 14, 2007
Anne Paxton remains both haunted and inspired by her recent trip to rural South Africa to identify the health-access needs of...

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Celebrating SFU authors - November 14, 2007
What do abstract algebra, child development, poetry, trademark infringement and coral-reef conservation have in common? They...

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SFU composers make musical waves - November 14, 2007
Composers and SFU contemporary arts professors Owen Underhill and Arne Eigenfeldt have been making some very sweet music...

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Student stargazers witness comet's dazzling visit - November 14, 2007
Students in Howard Trottier’s Physics 190 introductory astronomy class have been getting a celestial eyeful in the past few...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS November 23, 2007 - November 26, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Nov. 16-23, 2007              ...

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Mark Jaccard to advise B.C. Government - November 29, 2007
SFU climate change expert Mark Jaccard (above) has been named as a special advisor to B.C. premier Gordon Campbell’s new 22...

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Weaving a thesis in Tibet - November 29, 2007
Financing a doctoral thesis on the westernization of the Tibetan handicraft carpet industry isn’t easy. That’s why graduate...

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Clan women beat record - November 29, 2007
Clan senior captain Kristen Kolstad (above) and her teammates raced to an unprecedented fifth consecutive title Nov. 17 at...

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SFU undergrad awarded Fulbright scholarship - November 29, 2007
SFU physics undergrad Joel Zylberberg (left) is the sole Canadian winner of this year’s Fulbright International Science and...

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New chair to unravel the brain's mysteries - November 29, 2007
Urs Ribary has joined the psychology department as the Leadership Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience in Childhood Health and...

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TV epiphany leads to crime-fighting co-op - November 29, 2007
Jordan Ginther’s eureka moment came while watching Kim Rossmo, SFU criminology grad and geographic-profiling pioneer, on TV. ...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS November 30, 2007 - November 30, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Nov. 23-30, 2007              ...

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Coach Elligott trades soccer duties for finance career - December 4, 2007
Dave Elligott and his wife Patty are headed to Hawaii in January. But unfortunately for SFU it’s not just a winter holiday....

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Teaching teachers about the environment - December 4, 2007
David Zandvliet co-wrote the book on teaching B.C. kids about the environment and now he’s advising the province’s teachers...

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Robson joins Lipsey as Econometric Society fellow - December 5, 2007
SFU economist Arthur Robson has become only the second faculty member in the university’s history to be inducted as a Fellow...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - December 7th, 2007 - December 7, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: November 30 - December 7, 2007      ...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - December 13, 2007 - December 13, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Dec. 7-13, 2007        ...

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Wong donates $3 million to Woodward’s project - December 17, 2007
Vancouver businessman and SFU chancellor emeritus, Milton Wong, and his family have donated $3 million to help relocate SFU’s...

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Shapiro to lead business admin faculty - December 17, 2007
SFU’s board of governors has approved the appointment of Daniel Shapiro as Dean of Business Administration for the period of...

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Healthy homes good medicine for young asthma sufferers - December 19, 2007
Healthily designed, enviro-friendly homes may reduce asthma symptoms in children as much or more than medication, according...

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SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - December 21, 2007 - December 21, 2007
A look at how SFU and its people fared in the news media: Dec. 14-21, 2007

A timely seasonal present: Today’s Parent...

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