SFU evolutionary biologist Bernard Crespi and colleague Christopher Badcock, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, have published a sweeping new theory of brain development that could change how mental disorders are understood. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release11120803.html

SFU biomedical physiologist Max Donelan and his research team created The Bionic Energy Harvester – a significant advance in the emerging field of portable power. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release10300801.html

With more than $75.5 million in funding, researchers are pioneering new approaches to improve health, economies, environments and societies on a world scale. www.sfu.ca/vpresearch

The ATLAS project, dubbed the biggest physics experiment ever undertaken and involving hundreds of scientists worldwide sheds new light on the fundamental components of matter and their interactions – science that will change our understanding of the universe. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release09100801.html

Reducing our salt intake to an optimal daily level could mean as many as 17,000 fewer strokes, heart attacks or cases of heart failure annually and dramatically improve the health of Canadians, according to a recently published study. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release06110801.html

Researchers studying the little known role of a human enzyme are getting closer to understanding its activity – and its potential effect on the processes leading to diabetes and neurodegenerative disease. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release06090801.html

A study led by SFU biologist Nick Dulvy suggests that fish are responding to warmer ocean temperatures from global warming by swimming deeper, to cooler waters and not by moving northward as many experts predicted. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/Stories/sfunews07240803.shtml

On May 2, 2008, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Western Economic Diversification, announced more than $1.9 million in federal funding for a new MedChem Facility at Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release05070802.html

Climate change has prompted an increase in the pace of research and innovation. SFU is a founding member of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, which encompasses expertise from three other major British Columbia universities. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release01280801.html

A recent study by Research Infosource Inc. names SFU the top comprehensive university in Canada in the publication impact category, a measure of the quality and impact of research at each university relative to its cost. http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/ media_releases_archive/media_release10290801.html