Donors

Ryan & Keith Beedie donated $22 million to Ryan's alma mater--the largest gift that Simon Fraser University has ever received. And thus was named SFU’s Beedie School of Business. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archives/record-22million-donation-establishes-beedie-school-of-business-at-sfu.html

Philanthropist and Vancouver resident Djavad Mowafaghian donated $5.5 million to the Faculty of Health Sciences to improve the lives of children worldwide. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/Stories/sfunews101608014.shtml

Milton Wong, Vancouver businessman and SFU chancellor emeritus, and his family, donated $3 million to relocate SFU Contemporary Arts to the Woodward’s redevelopment project in downtown Vancouver. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/Stories/sfunews12170702.shtml

Polygon Homes chair Michael Audain donated $2 million to help create a visiting chair in visual arts that will bring international-calibre artists to Vancouver to engage with students, faculty and the community. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/Stories/sfunews012408013.shtml

SFU’s Surrey campus received a $1-million donation towards scholarships and awards from Dale B. Regehr. At age 28 he was SFU’s youngest donor. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/Stories/sfunews11010702.shtml

SFU raised $32,307,087 in 2007/08. Most remarkable was the more than $16 million donated to establish new research chairs, professorships and research centres – an 86-per-cent increase over the prior year. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release01240801.html

A $500,000 grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Canadian Culture Online program will enable SFU Library to lead a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at preserving the history and heritage of Canada’s minority groups. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release02210801.html

The Law Foundation of B.C. donated close to $350,000 to SFU’s Centre for Education, Law and Society. The centre aims to improve the legal literacy of children and young adults through teaching, curriculum development, research and community initiatives. http://cels.sfu.ca/

SFU is home to the first national chair in autism research and intervention. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release02250801.html

Dr. Robert Young holds the new Merck Frosst BC Leadership Chair in Pharmaceutical Genomics in Drug Discovery at SFU. Young's research aims to find new targets for drug discovery and will initially focus on developing drugs that stimulate rapid bone growth for patients with osteoporosis and bone degenerative diseases. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release11080702.html

Zurich Canada is supporting SFU’s new adaptation to climate change policy-planning initiative, ACT (the Adaptation to Climate Change Team). http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archive/ media_release09110701.html