2007 Research

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Global Warming: Are we ready? - March 22, 2007
Timothy Smith, president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C., will speak at SFU's Burnaby...

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It's Sexy Time! - March 21, 2007
Hey, girlfriend, not feeling very amorous lately? Try having more sex or cuddling.  That's one of the possibilities...

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Creating a new breed of engineers-Mechatronics - March 21, 2007
Mechatronics, a new engineering program designed for a growing high-tech world, is coming to SFU's Surrey campus. Mechatronic...

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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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Put your best paper forward - January 11, 2007
Win a $1200 prize—SFU grad students who take a cross-cultural perspective to their research are invited to enter the first...

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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 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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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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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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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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Fall'07: police studies - January 25, 2007
SFU's celebrated School of Criminology is about to gain a new dimension, and a second home, when its police studies program...

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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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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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Mitsubishi funds Japanese exchange programs - February 7, 2007
Mitsubishi Canada Limited is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Canada with a generous gift to SFU students. Mitsubishi is...

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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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SIAT sponsors wood symposium and workshop - February 7, 2007
New tools, techniques, products and practices are revolutionizing the use of wood in architecture, design and construction....

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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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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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Benefits of Small Schools - February 22, 2007
When it comes to schools, size matters. That's the verdict of SFU researchers Michèle Schmidt, Catherine Murray and Hien...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Living on the EDGE - April 5, 2007
EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) is the name of a new method of prioritizing species for conservation....

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Questioning Canada's endangered species list - May 3, 2007
A group of scientists led by SFU biologist Arne Mooers is raising questions about how Canada chooses which endangered species...

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HD video conferencing: Almost like being there - May 17, 2007
Video conferencing may soon seem almost as real as meeting in person, thanks to technology SFU researchers are developing...

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Live longer: Cut the salt - May 17, 2007
Reducing the average Canadian's salt intake by half would eliminate hypertension in one million Canadians and save $430...

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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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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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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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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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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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Evolutionary scientist racks up awards - June 14, 2007
Patrik Nosil, an SFU 2007 Governor General gold medallist, has won one of Canada’s top prizes for research at the graduate...

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Beam us down, Scotty - June 14, 2007
SFU geneticist Bob Johnsen will be reunited later this month with the descendents of a group of worms he sent to the...

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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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Same-sex marriage label changes support - June 28, 2007
Controversy aside, support for same-sex marriage tends to increase when the label becomes "civil union." SFU researcher...

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Children, anxiety and learning - June 28, 2007
Over 800,000 Canadian children suffer from social and emotional problems that interfere with their learning and development....

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E-loyalty across many cultures - June 28, 2007
With more than one billion Internet users around the world, online shopping now represents a significant business market....

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Lack of violence among off-street sex workers - June 28, 2007
Contrary to popular perceptions about prostitution and violence, more than two-thirds of off-street sex workers who...

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SFU’s newest health policy centre - June 28, 2007
One in seven Canadian children do not thrive and enjoy childhood because they suffer from serious mental health problems....

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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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Expulsion not solution for bullies - July 12, 2007
Schools and school districts preparing policies on bullying and school yard violence need to work past short-term solutions...

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Aggressive lending, real estate markets - July 12, 2007
New teaser-rate mortgages and those with 35-year or longer amortization periods—or no amortization—are putting upward price...

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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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SFU story creates media frenzy - Worms in space! - July 12, 2007
Issuing press releases can be a bit like chumming for salmon, says Carol Thorbes, a media relations officer with SFU’s public...

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Chemicals in humans: New concerns - July 12, 2007
Thousands of common chemicals from insecticides to perfumes are not being recognized for their potential to accumulate to...

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Grant bankrolls B.C. Internet research - July 26, 2007
Thanks to a $221,000 grant from the B.C. Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services, SFU’s Centre for Policy Research on...

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Homeless game on a roll - July 26, 2007
An educational interactive game developed and unveiled by an SFU grad student last year is a hit with more than just 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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Math grad summons FX smoke and water - July 26, 2007
Furls of smoke and flowing water never looked this real in the virtual world. And it’s not just smoke and mirrors. Using some...

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Iraqi medical researcher speaks on civilian war deaths - July 26, 2007
It took three months longer than expected, but Riyadh Lafta finally got the opportunity to discuss his research on Iraqi war...

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Chicken bone suggests Polynesians ‘discovered’ Americas - July 26, 2007
SFU-trained archeologist Alice Storey’s discovery that a chicken bone recovered along Chile’s Pacific coast dates to a time...

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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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Jointly defended border key to Canada-U.S. trade: study - August 20, 2007
Reaching shared border security and defence agreements with the U.S. is the best way for Canada to maintain an open border...

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Crispy critters could catch crooks - September 7, 2007
Torching a car with a homicide victim in the trunk should incinerate all hopes of solving the crime—or so a murderer might...

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Ethnicity determines obesity risks - September 7, 2007
Canadian researchers led by SFU kinesiologist Scott Lear have determined that ethnic heritage dictates where the body stores...

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Tiny technology in hospital trials - September 7, 2007
Tiny technology invented by SFU engineering professor Bozena Kaminska is undergoing extensive testing on patients at Burnaby...

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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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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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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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Biologist baits bloodsuckers - October 4, 2007
Eric Siljander spent the past three years investigating nasty little creatures that slip silently beneath bed sheets in the...

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Chair in Cardiovascular Research - October 19, 2007
SFU is about to launch an international search for Western Canada’s first Chair in Cardiovascular Prevention Research. It...

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$2-million autism chair - October 31, 2007
SFU will house the first national chair in autism research and intervention thanks to seed grants of $1 million each from the...

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Reversing turbulence - October 31, 2007
SFU physicist Mike Hayden (right) is figuring out how to turn back time on turbulence. It’s a feat similar to making the...

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Study on natural selection - November 1, 2007
Schizophrenia may be a by-product of natural selection in human evolution, says a study co-authored by SFU evolutionary...

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Heart-health report cards reduce risk - November 1, 2007
Heart-health report cards and follow-up phone counselling significantly reduced the risk of heart disease and stroke among...

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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 to build major training network in Latin America - November 14, 2007
SFU is initiating what it hopes will be an extensive network of economic development training programs throughout Latin...

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Computers excite kids mastering English - November 14, 2007
When education professor Kelleen Toohey began a three-year research project to determine how non-English speaking children...

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Virtual reality helps pain victims - November 14, 2007
Which serious burn victims get more pain relief — those on morphine or the ones fully immersed in a three-dimensional (3D)...

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New chair to stimulate drug discoveries - November 14, 2007
A new B.C. leadership chair will support pharmaceutical research and drug development at SFU.       ...

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New SFU Centre to aid research for disabled - November 29, 2007
A new SFU Centre for Disability Independence Research and Education (CDIRE) will bring together people with disabilities and...

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Chip technology could transform cancer Therapy - November 29, 2007
SFU chemistry professor Paul Li (above right) and his new SFU spin-off company ZellChip are developing micro-fluidic chip...

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Waste audit finds plenty to recycle at SFU - November 29, 2007
Heather Nyberg and her classmates turned more than a few heads this month as they stomped about Convocation Mall at SFU’s...

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Can video games help you learn? - November 29, 2007
Worried about the potentially negative aspects of the video games your kids will receive for Christmas? After all, countless...

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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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Study advocates stronger links among ethnic media - December 5, 2007
A new SFU study praises B.C.’s thriving multicultural media for helping immigrants adapt to Canadian society, but recommends...

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New B.C. immigrants stuck in low-paying jobs: study - December 17, 2007
They come here for a better life. But many women emigrating to B.C. from the Philippines are stuck in low-paying jobs with...

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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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