Media Releases 2012
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November 28, 2012
Collaborators drawn to new wireless communications lab
Today’s opening of the Sierra Wireless Mobile Communications Laboratory at Simon Fraser University places B.C. at the forefront of wireless communications research and education. -
November 28, 2012
Social innovation project nets award
Two Simon Fraser University undergraduate students have seen their social innovation project selected as one of three university project winners in BC Ideas, a new province-wide community engagement competition. -
November 27, 2012
Media Advisory: New wireless communications lab unveiled
The Sierra Wireless Mobile Communications Lab, a high-tech antenna chamber located at the Simon Fraser University Burnaby campus, will be unveiled to members of the media on Nov. 28 at 3 pm. The announcement will be followed by lab tours -
November 27, 2012
Restorative Justice through the power of music
On the heels of Restorative Justice Week, the 2012 Cambridge Music Conference, taking place this weekend at Simon Fraser University’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, will explore how conflict transformation and restorative justice can be enhanced through the performing arts. -
November 26, 2012
Jamaican delegation teams up to fight homophobia
A delegation from Jamaica, featuring journalists, policy-makers and a representative from PANOS Caribbean, will spend a week in Vancouver conducting a knowledge exchange, co-hosted by Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies, designed to fight stigma, discrimination, and to promote gay men’s health. -
November 25, 2012
WittyCookie founder nets fourth award
Simon Fraser University student Michael Cheng, founder of WittyCookie, has won SFU’s 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year (SEY) award, two weeks after netting the Surrey Board of Trade’s student award of the same title. -
November 23, 2012
SFU Clan prepare for Final Four Competition
Amid great buzz on the hill, Simon Fraser University men’s soccer team is strategizing and refining its game before departing Monday for the Final Four in Evans, GA in their historic NCAA post-season run. -
November 23, 2012
UBC, SFU to further global sustainable mining practices through $25M Institute
The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University will lead an international coalition to help developing countries benefit from their natural resources in environmentally and socially responsible ways. -
November 22, 2012
Gender-persecuted refugees need support
Simon Fraser University researchers, the Surrey Pride Society and Rainbow Refugee hope an upcoming lecture will increase public awareness about changes to Canada’s refugee claim process that disadvantage refugees fleeing sexuality or gender persecution. -
November 22, 2012
Unique civilian dive-altitude chamber reopens
Canada’s only civilian research hypo-hyperbaric chamber – and the largest such facility in Western Canada – is open for business again at Simon Fraser University after shutting down for almost three years due to a building flood that severely damaged the facility. -
November 19, 2012
SFU engages with student entrepreneurs
As the entrepreneurship community at Simon Fraser University continues to grow, so too does the desire for the title of SFU Entrepreneur of the Year (SEY). -
November 16, 2012
WittyCookie founder nets Surrey business award
Simon Fraser University student entrepreneur Michael Cheng, founder of WittyCookie, is Surrey’s 2012 Student Entrepreneur of the Year. -
November 15, 2012
Scientists improve dating of early human settlement
A Simon Fraser University archaeologist and his colleagues at the University of Queensland in Australia have significantly narrowed down the time frame during which the last major chapter in human colonization, the Polynesian triangle, occurred. -
November 14, 2012
SFU research goes virtual
Simon Fraser University is virtually opening its doors as part of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s (AUCC) Open Doors, Open Knowledge 2012 – Putting Ideas to Work initiative. -
November 08, 2012
New acting director for SFU Public Affairs
Scott McLean, director of public relations for Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus, is heading back up the hill in Burnaby to become SFU’s acting director of Public Affairs and Media Relations (PAMR). -
November 08, 2012
Tapping into the immune system - Café Scientifique
The body’s all-important immune system will be the focus of Simon Fraser University’s next Café Scientifique on Wednesday, Nov. 21 from 7-8:30 pm at Surrey’s City Centre Library. -
November 08, 2012
Exoplanet expert asks “Are We Alone?”
Internationally renowned MIT astrophysicist and planetary scientist Sara Seager will discuss the search for habitable worlds when she conducts two lectures at Simon Fraser University on November 15 and 16, as part of the inaugural President’s Dream Colloquium on the Emergence and Complexity of Life. -
November 08, 2012
Canada and Europe fund intelligent senior homes
Technology may soon be helping seniors to live longer, healthier lives. A trio of researchers, including Simon Fraser University’s Andrew Sixsmith, is working to develop intelligent, interactive sensors to be embedded in seniors’ homes, funded through a joint federal and European health research-funding program. -
November 06, 2012
Global Workforce Management chair for Beedie prof
Mila Lazarova, an associate professor of international business at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, has been appointed as Canada Research Chair in Global Workforce Management. -
November 05, 2012
B.C.'s Environment Minister at SFU Vancouver
British Columbia’s Minister of Environment Terry Lake will be at Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus to participate in a Carbon Talks dialogue on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 9:30-10:30 am.