2010 Research
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Averting a perfect storm for wild salmon - December 16, 2010Despite this summer’s record sockeye salmon run, SFU scientists say a population explosion of hatchery and wild salmon...
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Salmon sea-lice problem widespread: study - December 15, 2010SFU fish biologist John Reynolds has co-authored new research in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ...
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SFU heads $1.8M African HIV project - December 2, 2010Simon Fraser University is leading a four-year, $1.8-million project to improve the ability of research facilities in Africa...
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B.C. Canada’s police-death capital, report says - December 2, 2010People are dying at a higher rate in jail and police-related incidents in British Columbia than in any other jurisdiction in...
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Fire up the antimatter generator, Scotty - December 2, 2010Harnessing antimatter has long been the stuff of Star Trek and other science fiction stories—until now. Simon Fraser...
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Research targets ‘scrip opioid abuse - December 2, 2010Non-medical use of prescription opioids nowadays is estimated to kill more Canadians than heroin, cocaine or other illicit...
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SFU scientists share new clues about humans - December 2, 2010Five Simon Fraser University researchers and alumni are part of an international group of scientists that published two new...
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Obesity study targets kids in India, Canada - December 2, 2010More than 4,000 children in India and Canada will be the focus of a sweeping new study aimed at developing critical...
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Increasing sexual consent age may not protect at-risk teens - November 18, 2010The government’s 2008 increase in the legal age of sexual consent from 14 to 16 years may not be achieving the intended...
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Is beer civilizing? - November 18, 2010Did beer help fuel the rise of civilization? It’s possible, say’s SFU ethno-archaeologist Brian Hayden, who plans...
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‘Dr. Mosquito’ strikes again with insect ‘LEGO blocks’ - November 18, 2010Biology professor Carl Lowenberger—affectionately known as Dr. Mosquito for his role in SFU’s Spread the Net anti...
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SFU research packs influential punch - November 4, 2010SFU’s researchers are bringing in about four times the research income they did a decade ago—and are having more...
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Biochips could save thousands of Indian newborns - November 4, 2010SFU engineering scientist Ash Parameswaran and a trio of grad students working with Indian researchers have created a fast,...
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Report tracks ‘clear failure’ of cannabis prohibition - November 4, 2010The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) last month released a research report co-authored by SFU health...
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Climate-change savvy trio win big - October 21, 2010Three SFU doctoral students whose research focuses on water management decision-making, trans-boundary water governance and...
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Students produce public service videos in Punjabi - October 21, 2010SFU communication students have collaborated with university health sciences researchers and others to produce two public...
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Computing scientists create ‘recommender’ system - October 21, 2010A new system for creating trusted recommendations online has attracted interest from Internet giant Yahoo and earned its SFU...
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Centre for public opinion launched - October 21, 2010SFU’s political science department launched its new Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation Oct. 12 with...
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New arthritis chair for health sciences - October 21, 2010Charles Goldsmith, a clinical epidemiologist and biostatistician passionate about helping people with musculoskeletal...
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First health sciences PhD takes on HIV/AIDS - October 7, 2010Nathan Ford isn’t too impressed by rankings. Earning SFU’s first health sciences PhD, for example, means much...
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Partnership will boost Central Coast research - October 7, 2010The Tula Foundation is partnering with SFU and providing as much as $8 million over eight years to create the Hakai Network...
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SFU spin-off targets Alzheimer’s with Merck partnership - September 9, 2010An SFU spin-off company is taking aim at Alzheimer’s disease in partnership with pharmaceutical giant Merck. ...
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Hybrid biochip fosters faster DNA analysis - August 17, 2010SFU chemist Paul Li, who pioneered lab-on-a-biochip technology six years ago, has struck gold in the research world again...
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Rural crack use No. 1 street-drug problem: study - July 22, 2010As crack cocaine use rises in Canada, so too does the urgent need for targeted prevention and treatment programs&mdash...
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Stable temperature promotes biodiversity - July 22, 2010Scientists have generated more than 100 hypotheses over the last few centuries to explain why tropical rainforests have so...
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Feds fund dietary therapy research - July 22, 2010Increased federal funding has enabled SFU biologist Allison Kermode to continue work on a novel treatment to improve the...
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Nature’s speed limit? - July 8, 2010According to new SFU research, there’s a speed limit on the information super-highways that route key messages through...
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Future diabetes remedy? - June 24, 2010New research by a team of Canadian scientists including SFU chemist Mario Pinto suggests that controlling diet-induced...
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African partners confer on HIV/AIDS project - June 24, 2010Last month, SFU hosted eight visitors from its partner universities in Ghana, Africa who are involved in an international...
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Summer sojourners - June 24, 2010It’s summertime and the learning is easier off campus for many SFU students, staff and faculty members doing field...
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New study claims Rembrandt tricked eyes to linger longer - June 24, 2010What’s the secret behind Rembrandt’s compelling portraiture? Steve DiPaola, a professor in the School of...
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Study aims to reorient lost cells - June 24, 2010Like travellers, cells can get lost without a compass. That’s particularly bad news in the case of cancer cells. ...
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DNA sleuth tracks turkey’s origins - June 10, 2010An archaeologist whose research is shedding light on how early indigenous animals were domesticated has received SFU’s...
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New dental prof roots out oral cancer - June 10, 2010Ten years ago, Denise Laronde was working as a dental hygienist. This month, she graduates with a PhD in biomedical...
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Education doctoral grad maps promising research path - June 10, 2010Olusola (Sola) Adesope and his wife Tolu were expecting their second baby in 2003 and had just immigrated to Canada from the...
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High-tech help for the elderly - May 27, 2010More than 400 of the world’s leading experts in geriatric health, housing and assistive technology are meeting in...
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Another piece found in disease puzzle - May 27, 2010An international research team led by SFU cell biologist Michel Leroux is closer to piecing together a picture of what causes...
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Grad students start health science journal - May 27, 2010SFU MSc student Inderjeet Sahota and University of Toronto colleague Wilson Wong have started an online health-science...
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SFU researchers sit on fisheries advisory panel - May 27, 2010Two SFU researchers will sit on a six-member scientific panel that will independently advise the Cohen Commission of Inquiry...
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Robo cell - May 13, 2010Scientists Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology are the proud parents of a robotic...
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SFU/UBC launch visual analytics institute - May 13, 2010Researchers from SFU and UBC have collaborated with industry partners to launch the Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics ...
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Technique helps build anti-viral drugs faster - May 13, 2010SFU chemist Andy Bennet and his PhD student Jeff Chan have developed a technique that will accelerate the creation of...
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Conference targets cardiovascular health - May 13, 2010Cardiovascular disease—a growing problem in both Canada and India—will be the focus of an international...
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Beaming in on lasers - May 13, 2010Laser creator was ‘a natural inventor’ It took only $50,000, the help of one part-time lab assistant and nine...
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Study assesses new fish-farming method - April 8, 2010SFU researchers are joining forces with other scientists and industry partners to assess how Canada’s aquaculture...
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Smashing good science - April 8, 2010Particle beams are colliding at the highest energies ever reached by a man-made accelerator at Switzerland’s CERN...
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Neuroscience: Exploring the brain’s highways - April 8, 2010The highways that SFU biologist Michael Silverman travels aren’t found on any Google map. They’re the microscopic...
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A tale of two turkeys - March 25, 2010Before you sit down for your Easter turkey dinner, consider where the bird came from. You may be surprised to learn that its...
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LifeSciences B.C. to honour SFU quartet - March 25, 2010Biomedical physiologist Andy Hoffer is one of four SFU scientists who will be honoured with 2010 LifeSciences B.C. awards...
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DNA links caribou lineage to volcanic eruption - March 25, 2010SFU researcher Tyler Kuhn has recovered DNA from ancient caribou bones possibly linking several small unique caribou herds to...
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Tiny sensor has many uses - March 11, 2010Imagine being able to adjust your home furnace, check whether your arteries are plugging up or determine your child’s...
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Invention mimics extreme environments - February 25, 2010A new SFU invention could make it easier for researchers to travel anywhere to study how air conditions in extreme...
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World’s future may turn on dust in the wind - February 25, 2010Strange as it sounds, dust may have helped end the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. And that has environmental scientists...
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Childhood leukemia doubles in Iraqi province - February 25, 2010Childhood leukemia rates in Basra, Iraq more than doubled over a 15-year period, peaking three years into the U.S.-led...
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Sloan Fellowship for math professor - February 25, 2010Matt DeVos, assistant professor of mathematics, has been awarded a $50,000 Sloan Research Fellowship to further his...
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Ambush marketers threaten Olympic sponsors - February 25, 2010A new SFU Business study shows that aggressive ambush marketers could cost official sponsors of the Olympics and other events...
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Worms from space show DNA change - February 4, 2010It sounds like science fiction. In 2007, SFU molecular biologists David Baillie and Bob Johnsen froze in liquid nitrogen about...
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Study targets fainting astronauts - February 4, 2010SFU kinesiologist Andrew Blaber was among the researchers waiting at the Edwards Air Force Base in California last September...
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Space station needs some ‘fake plants’ - February 4, 2010In 2005, geography assistant professor Paul Kingsbury volunteered to assess the habitability of the International Space...
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Prof receives phone messages from space - February 4, 2010Barbara Frisken received several messages from outer space last year on her answering machine. And no, it wasn’t ET calling...
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Study targets the brain and athletic success - February 4, 2010Athletes seeking a spot on the podium at the Winter Olympics will need to be at their best mentally as well as physically. ...
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Human costs of war declining: study - January 21, 2010Wartime mortality—from disease and malnutrition as well as war-inflicted injuries—is decreasing in most of today’s armed...
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Looking for a better way to search survey data? - January 21, 2010Looking for an easier way to access social science survey data such as the Canadian census, Statistics Canada’s omnibus...
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Study paints compassionate picture of johns - January 21, 2010Johns’ Voice, an unprecedented study of how men who buy sex relate to prostitutes, concludes that most customers, or johns,...
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Atom-smashing record thrills physicists - January 7, 2010Virtually every physicist in Canada would love to have been in Jennifer Godfrey’s shoes last month. The SFU PhD student...
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Plumbing our cluttered soundscape - January 7, 2010Are the constantly proliferating and overlapping sounds in our environment helping us to process information, hindering us or...
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Exploring life’s origins in an ‘RNA world’ - January 7, 2010One popular idea concerning the origin of life on Earth is called the "RNA World" theory. And last month an SFU research group...
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Researchers to study ocean health - January 7, 2010The Royal Society of Canada has appointed 10 scientists—two of them from SFU—to an independent panel charged with studying...
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SIAT sparks a GRAND plan - January 7, 2010Researchers from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) will be part of a GRAND effort to study how people make...
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Centre to study mental health, addiction, inequality - January 7, 2010How do the intersections of gender, race, poverty and other social factors affect services and outcomes for people with...
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