External Award: James Lee Foundation Scholarship July 26, 2013
The James Lee Foundation is accepting submissions for its 2013 scholarship award, valued at $5,000. Apply by Sept 15, 2013.

Karen Tanenbaum receives Dean's Convocation Medal June 06, 2013
Dr. Karen Tanenbaum's endless curiosity has led her from Celtic Studies to computational linguistics to wearable technology and storytelling to the Maker Movement and being featured in a recent Make magazine Shout Out to the Women of Tech.

Three Minute Thesis 2013: Mina Soltangheis, SIAT June 01, 2013
SFU's Three Minute Thesis finals took place on March 6, 2013. Mina Soltangheis (Iran), School of Interactive Arts and Technology, spoke on "Designing a time visualization for CZSaw a visual analytic tool."

Three Minute Thesis 2013: Daniel Feuereissen, SIAT June 01, 2013
SFU's Three Minute Thesis finals took place on March 6, 2013. Daniel Feuereissen (Canada), School of Interactive Arts and Technology, spoke on "Active, User-generated Motion-Cueing Facilitates Self-Motion Perception (Vection) in Mediated Environments"

External Award: James Dyson Award April 03, 2013
The James Dyson Award is an international design award that for the next generation of design engineers. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to inspire young people about design engineering. It is valued at £30,000, plus two £10,000 awards for the runners up. Apply by August 1, 2013.

External Awards: Electronic Theses and Dissertations April 03, 2013
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) consortium is looking for nominations of outstanding multimedia theses or dissertations and leaders in the electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) field. Deadline for Nominations: April 15, 2013

External Award: Google Scholarships February 13, 2013
Google has a $5000 CAD Scholarship for First Nations Canadian graduate or undergraduate students in computer science, computer engineering, or related programming fields. The award also includes an all-expenses paid invitation to the 2013 Google Scholars' Retreat held in June 2013 in Mountain View, CA.

Contest Entry: Maria Fedorova February 12, 2013
We're sharing the contest entries from our Photos of Home graduate student photo contest.

Research profile: Xiaolan Wang, School of Interactive Arts and Technology November 14, 2012
Xiaolan Wang has come a long way from her hometown of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China.

Research profile: Michelle Fan, School of Interactive Arts and Technology September 24, 2012
Min (Michelle) Fan is a PhD candidate in SFU's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. She earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in Digital Media Arts from the Communication University of China.

Medium Difficulty: Game analysis website goes global April 06, 2012
We were sitting in Karl’s office in the English department, talking about video games.

Research Profile: Karen Tanenbaum, Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) February 03, 2012
Karen Tanenbaum took a long and winding road through academia.

Research Profile: Jay Vidyarthi, SIAT December 06, 2011
We all know that technology has increased efficiency and productivity, but it can seem like those benefits have come at the cost of speeding events up so that we can't pause for contemplation in the midst of over-stimulation and endless wired distraction.

Research Profile: David Milam, SIAT November 22, 2011
When David Milam finished his master's degree at Harvard, he worked in the software and design industry for several years before deciding to begin his PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University.

Mitacs Elevate internships October 19, 2011
The Mitacs Elevate program provides two types of fellowships for postdoctoral fellows and PhD students about to complete their degrees.

In Memoriam: Andrew Wade, SIAT October 03, 2011
Andrew Wade's fellow students and friends remember him as passionate, energetic and brimming with positive energy.

Alumni Profile: Robin Oppenheimer, SIAT September 21, 2011
Recent SFU alumna Robin Oppenheimer has been working in the field of media arts field since 1980.

Pacific Institute for Climate Change Fellowship Recipients September 13, 2011
Three SFU doctoral candidates have received fellowships totalling $54,000 from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).

Digital Media grads launch mobile game July 14, 2011
A group of seven grad students from the Centre for Digital Media will launch their first mobile game, Crash Craving, for iPad and iPhone on July 15. Team members are Shahrzad Aghasharifianesfahani, Carmen Chow, Mohamed El-Eryan, Airlia Hansen, Jeffrey Lane, Nickolas Marouhos, and Alice Tai.

Grad Studies 40th Anniversary prize winner: Joshua Tanenbaum May 26, 2011
Joshua Tanenbaum is working on his PhD at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology in the next year, and is enthusiastic about his experience at Simon Fraser University:

External Award: Malaysia International Scholarship May 19, 2011
The Malaysia International Scholarship (MIS) is an initiative by the Malaysian Government to attract top students to pursue post-graduate and post-doctoral studies at twenty public and four private universities in Malaysia.

SFU takes top two awards in Digital Media Challenge May 19, 2011
Congratulations to Andrew Au, an engineering graduate student, for taking first place in this year’s BCNET Digital Media Challenge Competition for his video (linked above), entitled Veaver, an Interactive Multiview Video System.

Science student wins best business concept May 11, 2011
Congratulations to Suraaj Aulakh, a graduate student in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry whose business concept took first prize in the SFU Business Concept Competition, held in April 2011.

Research profile: Veronica Zammitto, SIAT February 07, 2011
Veronica Zammitto, a cognitive psychologist and SIAT PhD student, was profiled in the Surrey North Delta Leader this week for her work on video games.

Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence
Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners! They will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 11–14, 2013.