School of Interactive Arts and Technologies scientists invented Cally and Callo, the robotic cellphones that can walk, dance, and express human-like gestures and emotions in response to text-messaged emoticons. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/robo-cell.shtml
Criminology PhD student Michelle Lawrence has been awarded Canada’s most coveted social sciences and humanities doctoral scholarship from the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. Lawrence, a lawyer, has returned to academia to study how substance-induced psychotic disorders impact criminal responsibility. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/trudeau-scholar-targets-druginduced-crime.shtml
SFU's Faculty of Environment researchers will work with First Nations and other collaborators focusing on sustainability, resilience and wellbeing of the B.C.'s Central Coast people and ecosystem projects due to an investment from the Tula Foundation. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/partnership-will-boost-central-coast-research.shtml
Research by SFU's Steve DiPaolo investigated Rembrandt's artistic techniques for painting portraits that guide the viewer's eye, tricking them to linger longer. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/new-study-claims-rembrandt-tricked-eyes-to-linger-longer.shtml
Researcher's from SFU's geography department outlined evidence of declining wind speeds in the Pacific Northwest region. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/wind-speed-declining-in-pacific-northwest-study.html
Charles Goldsmith is the first appointee to a new arthritis chair at SFU. Goldsmith is passionate about helping people with musculoskeletal diseases such as arthritis. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/new-arthritis-chair-for-health-sciences.shtml
A research project between SFU and University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa) will build a research network to support African efforts to conduct clinical, biomedical and sociological studies on HIV/AIDS and related infections. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/sfu-heads-18m-african-hiv-project.shtml
SFU engineers are working with Indian researchers to create a fast, effective way to diagnose bacteria-infected newborns that could potentially save lives in rural India. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/biochips-could-save-thousands-of-indian-newborns.shtml
SFU physicist Mike Hayden and a group of scientists were the first to find a way to hold antihydrogen atoms long enough to study their characteristics. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/fire-up-the-antimatter-generator-scotty.shtml