UNIVERSITY NEWS

COOKING UP CULTURE: THE IMPORTANCE OF

FOOD ACCESS

“Our current food system has a lot of problems. It’s very susceptible, as we saw with things like COVID and the 2021 floods."

From Manila to Vancouver, Alyna De Guzman sees food as a cornerstone of culture. As a Resource and Environmental Management student, she’s now studying the systems that affect food from production to consumption, in hopes of using her knowledge to serve her communities in both Canada and the Philippines.

MEET ALYNA

NEW LEADERS TO SUPPORT SFU RESEARCHERS

AND INNOVATORS

SFU is proud to welcome Michael Richards as our new Associate Vice-President, Research and Elicia Maine as the inaugural Associate Vice President, Knowledge Mobilization and Innovation. These positions will further SFU’s reputation for innovation and research excellence, support and encourage all researchers and build our capacity to mobilize scientific discoveries for the greater good.

DEVELOPING ANTI-RACIST TEACHING PRACTICES THROUGH SELF REFLECTION

Over the past year, 12 instructors took part in The Centre for Educational Excellence’s Healing from Racism Journey, a four-part program devoted to developing anti-racist teaching practices through self reflection. Learn how they change individual actions and interpersonal interactions as a community.

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THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Distinguished SFU Professor of psychology, Lara Aknin, chairs The Lancet’s Mental Health & Wellbeing Task Force. Learn the psychological impacts of living through the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic and how to support mental wellbeing.

POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION RESEARCH AIDED BY SFU RADAR TECHNOLOGY

New radar imaging tools have been designed by SFU researchers in the School of Engineering Science to more effectively detect polar bears and their denning habitats. Learn how this may play a key role in assessing how climate change and other environmental factors are impacting their lives.

RESOURCES + OPERATIONAL UPDATES

myINFO AND FINS UNAVAILABLE LATER TODAY

IT Services will be completing system maintenance from 6 - 8 p.m. today. To view updates during the outage, please follow SFU IT Services on Twitter. Please email its-help@sfu.ca if you experience any issues after the scheduled outage window.

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BEAR AWARE

Bears, deer and raccoons are seen frequently around the Burnaby campus. Do you know how to stay safe if you encounter a wild animal? For starters, don't approach, remain calm and back away slowly. Safety and Risk Services are committed to educating our community members about wildlife safety and sharing wildlife best practices.

WILDLIFE TIPS

FEATURE EVENT

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW DRUG PROHIBITION SHAPED THE EARLY ASIAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

May 27 | Hosted By SFU Faculty of Health Sciences & BC CDC

This presentation is a brief introduction into the historical roots of drug policy and its impacts on Asian and other racialized communities. The co-presenters are friends and colleagues who met while working with newcomers, refugees and people engaged in substance use at the R.I.S.E. Clinic (Resilient, Integrative, Socially Just & Equitable).

TUNE IN

INTERVENTIONS FOR HEART HEALTH BECOMES INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FOR SOUTH ASIANS

May 30 | Hosted By Faculty of Health Sciences

Prabhakaran Dorairaj is helping people clarify diet and lifestyle choices that optimize heart health. His talk, The Right Diet and Lifestyle for a Healthy Heart, will focus on how conditions such as heart disease and diabetes can be potentially prevented or postponed by following the right life lifestyle

and diet.