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May 13, 2013
Brazil crack user study finds critical need for intervention
A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world’s biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem.
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May 13, 2013
Richard lll discoverers visit SFU
Two researchers, who are part of a team that became world famous overnight for discovering King Richard lll’s remains in a Leicester, England car park, will visit Simon Fraser University tomorrow night.
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May 13, 2013
Change to depression screening guideline
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has updated a guideline on screening for depression in primary care settings, recommending not to routinely screen adults who show no apparent symptoms of depression. Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Michel Joffres, chair of the working group charged with its review, can provide comment on the change.
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May 10, 2013
Scientific symposium raises alarm about compromised science
Almost a year after donning a lab coat to help scientists protest on Parliament Hill what they call the muzzling of their species, a Simon Fraser University professor is moderating a symposium on the issue.
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May 10, 2013
SFU Burnaby hosts Science Rendezvous
Simon Fraser University is participating in Science Rendezvous, a nation-wide event taking place in 40 cities across Canada on May 11. SFU’s Burnaby campus will host a free event featuring presentations and hands-on activities, such as The Amazing Science Chase and Great Space Ship Debate, for children of all ages.
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May 10, 2013
Beedie student named Woman Leader of Tomorrow
Chantelle Buffie, a student in Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, has been named the 2013 HSBC Woman Leader of Tomorrow at the Enactus Canada national competition held in Toronto this week.
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May 08, 2013
Study: Obesity’s insulation trap
Two Simon Fraser University researchers are seeking 40 participants for a follow-up study to their preliminary discovery that obese people are prone to gaining weight in mild cold weather.
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May 08, 2013
Real-life Argo: escaping the Iran Hostage Crisis
A husband and wife who were among six U.S. diplomats to escape during the
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis will re-tell their story at a free, public dialogue at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. in the Westminster Savings Lecture Theatre (2600).
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May 06, 2013
All-party forum discusses mental health & addiction
With the upcoming provincial election just over a week away, SFU Public Square and SFU’s School of Public Policy have partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), BC Division, to host an ‘All-party Forum on Mental Health & Addictions’ on Tuesday night.
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May 03, 2013
SFU, TD unveil community engagement centre in Surrey
A $750,000 donation from TD Bank Group has moved Simon Fraser University one big step closer to its goal of being Canada’s most community-engaged research university.
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May 02, 2013
Dialogue, with Minister & Critic, tackles child poverty in BC
With one in seven children in British Columbia living in poverty, two thirds of which are situated in Metro Vancouver, child poverty has become an issue of growing concern in the province. On Monday, Stephanie Cadieux, Bruce Ralston, Carrie Gelson and Paul Kershaw, along with moderator Fazil Mihlar from the Vancouver Sun, will explore this issue with Tackling Child Poverty in BC: Every Child Fed, Clothed, and Ready to Learn at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
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May 01, 2013
New genetic clues to breast and ovarian cancer
A major international study involving a Simon Fraser University scientist has found that sequence differences in a gene crucial to the maintenance of our chromosomes’ integrity predispose us to certain cancers.
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May 01, 2013
Symposium explores commodification of Aboriginal culture
Simon Fraser University archaeology professor George Nicholas is joining international scholars at a Vancouver symposium May 2 to explore the commodification of Aboriginal culture.
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April 29, 2013
New federal investment could save millions of lives
Thanks to new federal funding, low-cost, easily accessible technology invented by a Simon Fraser University engineering professor and his graduate students is closer to helping to save millions of infant lives.
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April 25, 2013
New tools to improve disease management, analysis
Simon Fraser University researchers will use new grants from Genome Canada to develop improved analytical tools leading to better management of communicable diseases and more accurate analysis of DNA in cancer patients.
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April 24, 2013
Projecting Change Film Festival Celebrates 6th Year
Designed to unite attendees with films that explore empowerment, identity, culture, as well as environmental and social sustainability, the 2013 Projecting Change Film Festival enters its fifth year beginning tonight at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
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April 19, 2013
SFU engages in Aftermath of Murder series
A Simon Fraser University criminologist, criminology master’s student and communication alumnus hope a new hard-hitting video series that they are behind will garner major public attention during National Victims of Crime Awareness Week in Canada. It runs April 21 to 27.
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April 18, 2013
Students create cool havens for immersive environments
Honing in on a video game or other immersive environment pursuits takes on a new meaning when the activities are encased in the creative housings developed by a class of fourth-year students in Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT).
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April 17, 2013
Starting the dialogue on reconciliation
Brenda Morrison, a Simon Fraser University criminologist and director of the SFU Centre for Restorative Justice, expects an invitation-only reconciliation dialogue on Aboriginal people’s history in Canada will be well attended.
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April 17, 2013
Scientists find ethnicity linked to antibodies
Cracking the DNA code for a complex region of the human genome has helped 14 North American scientists, including five at Simon Fraser University, chart new territory in immunity research.