Shellfish farmers cautioned
Jan 09, 2003
Shellfish farming may be an economic godsend for unemployed loggers and fishers, but its development must proceed wisely, warns Leah Bendell-Young (left). The Simon Fraser University expert in ...
Orangutan cultures face extinction, studies say
Jan 09, 2003
SFU primatologist Biruté Galdikas (left) has spent more than three decades studying the orangutans of Tanjung Puting park in central Indonesian Borneo. The world’s leading orangutan researchers ...
Lonely decision to drop out
Jan 09, 2003
More than half of aboriginal youths who dropped out of high school in one Vancouver Island community made the decision to leave school early without the influence of peers or family. They spent at ...
2002: A Look Back
Jan 09, 2003
Biology student Christina Ames (above) is one of only three recipients in B.C. of a Women in Engineering and Science award. New campus The SFU Surrey campus formally opened in September after ...
Physiotherapy clinic open to all
Jan 09, 2003
SFU plumbing foreman Warren Parsons (left) receives ultrasound treatment from SFU physiotherapist Danny Reid. All SFU students, staff and faculty are welcome to use the services of the SFU ...
Bird plucks gold from Olympic pool
Jan 09, 2003
For Gwen Bird (left) the 2002 holiday celebration began a little early. In November, the head of collections management at the library returned home from the Olympic pool in Sydney, Australia with a ...
Campbell earns staff award
Jan 09, 2003
Frank Campbell (right) makes SFU look good, not only in his creative video productions but in the local community, where it’s not unusual to find him dispensing sandwiches left over from SFU ...
International photo contest
Jan 09, 2003
Taken in Damascus, Syria, this photograph entitled Traditional Values, Modern Times won second place honors in the people category of SFU’s annual international photo contest. The image, taken in a ...
Sal Ferreras
Jan 09, 2003
Acclaimed percussionist and composer Sal Ferreras (left) will introduce a new work when he performs at SFU theatre at 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 30. Ferreras will perform with Safa, which includes two ...
SFU, Burnaby sign research pact
Jan 09, 2003
Two newly signed research partnership agreements are strength–ening long-term cooperation between municipal staff at the city of Burnaby and Simon Fraser University faculty on projects of mutual ...
Alumni donate $340,222 for books and bursaries
Jan 09, 2003
When SFU alumni asked student fundraiser Yovanka Contreras where their donations went, the communication student might have truthfully answered: right into her pocket. Not directly, of course. ...
New master's program set for fall
Jan 09, 2003
SFU will enroll its first class of 20 students in an innovative new graduate program – the master’s in public policy – in the fall of 2003. The program, the first of its kind in western Canada, ...
Student vote favours U-Pass
Jan 09, 2003
An unprecedented student voter turnout for an SFU student society referendum narrowly approved a universal transit pass (U-PASS) for students. Almost 6,000 students out of a possible 21,684 ...
Two researchers publish in Science
Jan 09, 2003
In the Jan. 3 issue of Science, SFU biological sciences professor Bernard Crespi and graduate student Stevan Springer explain how a recent research paper published in the journal on cell-cell ...
RRSP savings for faculty, staff
Jan 09, 2003
It’s a new year and SFU staff and faculty are another year closer to retirement. That’s why it’s important to think about RRSP contributions and saving for life after 65 or, increasingly, age 55. ...
Proposed ethics board unpopular
Jan 09, 2003
University researchers across Canada, including at Simon Fraser University, are concerned about the potential creation of a national accreditation system for ethics boards that approve research on ...
Burns celebration has ticket to ride
Jan 09, 2003
Have no fear if you board skytrain on Jan. 24 and feel as though you’re being transported to the Gaelic highlands. You’re still on the Lower Mainland. You’ve just encountered Simon Fraser ...
SFU's Stoody second to Chinese champion
Jan 09, 2003
Competing against a world record holder brought out the best in SFU’s Kathleen Stoody. Pitted against 17-year-old Chinese swimming sensation Hui Qi of China during the SFU-hosted Clan Cup ...
Nation honours SFU poets
Nov 28, 2002
SFU professor emeritus George Bowering (left) has been appointed Canada’s first poet laureate, while colleague Roy Miki has been honoured with a Governor-General literary award. They are best ...
Olympic speedskaters bidding for SFU home
Nov 28, 2002
It’s far from being a done deal. But the buzz about a proposed skating oval to be built at SFU, if Vancouver’s bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics is successful, is picking up steam. “It’ll be huge ...
$23 million announced for new tech centre
Nov 28, 2002
A major capital investment by the provincial government has brought Simon Fraser University closer to realizing an ambitious goal. Advanced education minister Shirley Bond recently announced a ...
Sports centre an Olympic legacy
Nov 28, 2002
Beyond the development of a physical plan for an Olympic venue at SFU, a vision of what the proposed long-track speedskating oval could potentially become is already taking shape. Members of SFU’s ...
Brissenden's book honoured
Nov 28, 2002
Constance Brissenden (right) is one of SFU bookstore’s authors of the month in November for a new children’s book, As Long as the Rivers Flow, that she co-wrote with Cree writer and playwright Larry ...
Fiji rewards exchange student
Nov 28, 2002
When Erika Eliason (left) reflects back on her international exchange semester at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji, she recalls images of 60-year-old village women wading through ...
Feenberg focuses on tech
Nov 28, 2002
A philosopher who professes to be neither a technophobe nor a technocrat has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in philosophy of technology at Simon Fraser University. Andrew Feenberg (left), ...
Gold medal winner returns
Nov 28, 2002
Derek Bingham (left), a Simon Fraser University graduate, who went south with a doctoral degree and the Governor General’s gold medal three years ago, is coming back as a Canada Research Chair. ...
Food bank starts drive
Nov 28, 2002
The SFU food bank’s annual Christmas drive is under way, and it’s a good thing, because the list of users has grown quickly in recent weeks, to more than 100. “This is the largest number we’ve ...
Building conundrum
Nov 28, 2002
Twenty-six acres and what shall we build? That’s the question confronting the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Simon Fraser University and the ...
New Faculty
Nov 28, 2002
A selection of new faculty whose appointments began on Sept. 1, 2002. Anoop Sarkar Anoop Sarkar has joined the school of computing science as a tenure track assistant professor. A recent PhD ...
Archives enter digital age
Nov 28, 2002
Not long ago, if someone needed a work record it was found on a piece of paper in a filing cabinet. No longer. The digital age has meant records are now stored, filed and retrieved electronically. ...
Tech toys for Christmas
Nov 28, 2002
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth and an Apple iPod with 20 gigabytes of storage space. Or maybe a Firebird II remote control airplane. Or possibly an ARCHOS Jukebox Multimedia device....
Jail guards fear violence on job
Nov 28, 2002
Correctional officers in B.C. are at higher risk of on-the-job criminal violence than any other employees in the province, according to a recent study by SFU criminology professor Neil Boyd (left) ...
MacLean wins two awards
Nov 28, 2002
David MacLean’s contributions to health promotion, disease prevention and public health policy on a regional, national and international scale have garnered him two prestigious awards. The SFU ...
Playing for laughs, seriously
Nov 28, 2002
What’s so funny about end-of-term exams? Not much, unless you’re one of the students enrolled in Irwin Shubert’s Canadian studies 391 course in Canadian humour. The course, Mining Canada’s Humerus,...
Dagg earns meal for peacekeeping
Nov 28, 2002
More than 125,000 Canadians – mostly military personnel – have been involved with peacekeeping missions since the Second World War. It is a record unmatched by any other nation – one per cent of the ...
New residence approved
Nov 14, 2002
Jan Fialkowski, (left) director of residence and housing, shows off a drawing of the new student residences. Construction is set to begin in February. The construction of 500 single resident ...
Problems of young offenders studied
Nov 14, 2002
SFU criminologists Irwin Cohen (left) and Raymond Corrado are trying to find out more about repeat young offenders. The second phase of a study to determine why violent and serious young ...
SFU swim meet features China's fastest female
Nov 14, 2002
Chinese national swim sensation Hui Qi, the gold medal favourite for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, will headline an international swim meet at SFU in December. Qi and 10 Chinese ...
French agreement signed
Nov 14, 2002
Promotion of francophone and francophile interests in B.C. took a major step forward with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Simon Fraser University and the Fédération des ...
Make no mistake with email
Nov 14, 2002
Picture this. You just sent a friendly email that is misinterpreted by the recipient as a hostile attack – even though it was loaded with smiley faces. She responds in kind and soon a professional or ...
Library stays open longer
Nov 14, 2002
The SFU library is extending its opening hours after user surveys revealed a significant demand for longer hours from both students and faculty. The library will now remain open two hours later on ...
SIMON replacement unveiled
Nov 14, 2002
The group implementing a software package that will put Simon Fraser University at the head of the pack in terms of student administration systems used by Canadian universities recently unveiled ...
Ellen Gee
Nov 14, 2002
Ellen Gee, a renowned SFU sociologist and chair of the department of sociology and of the program in Latin American studies, died suddenly Nov. 3. Gee, 52, was an authority on Canadian demography, ...
Klein wins fellowship
Nov 14, 2002
Simon Fraser University associate business professor Peter Klein is the recipient of a research fellowship from RBC Investments Global Private Banking. Klein, a chartered financial analyst and ...
Taking sport to higher level
Nov 14, 2002
SFU cheerleaders show off their lifts as they prepare for national competition Nov. 23. The co-ed squad will also host a western regional contest in March. ...
New Faculty
Nov 14, 2002
Mark Fettes has been appointed a tenure track assistant professor in the faculty of education. Fettes holds a M.Sc. in biochemistry and molecular biology from UBC and a PhD in educational ...
Surrey students help create website
Nov 14, 2002
SFU Surrey students Marie-Claude Lavoie (left), Ian Buckley and Erika Glover examine the BCcampus website. When Ian Buckley was asked to put together a team of Simon Fraser University Surrey ...
GRUVIng on the fast track
Nov 14, 2002
It may be a 1960s kinds of name, but SFU’s GRUVI computer laboratory is definitely on the fast track of high technology. The name, chosen by students in the lab, stands for graphics, usability, and ...
Scots in highland heaven
Nov 14, 2002
Rex Davidson (left), a director of the St. Andrews & Caledonian society, and Stephen Duguid, director of SFU’s centre for Scottish studies, display the 88-year-old James William Stewart Cup. A ...
Computer Centres attracting gamers
Nov 14, 2002
Video-game giants like Nintendo and Microsoft are spending mega-millions to develop the perfect gaming console for future home entertainment centres. But Laureano Ralón (left), an SFU ...
Trivial Pursuit
Nov 14, 2002
A grassy field, the sound of falling water and a view of towering urban canyon walls: this is the scene chosen by SFU contemporary arts students Reece Terris and Kristina Ona for their installation, ...
United Way garage sale
Nov 14, 2002
Arts student Claire Cheethom (left) and science student Scott Lebel search for treasures at the second annual SFU Garage Sale, for the United Way. Funds raised as of Nov. 7 are $89,125. United Way ...
Class of horrors
Oct 31, 2002
English professor Paul Budra (left) with a skull from his family’s ornate collection, which graces their mantle during the Halloween season. Paul Budra is content to know that some of his ...
Spam assassin lurks
Oct 31, 2002
Academic computing services (ACS), which troubleshoots the Simon Fraser University campus community’s computing woes, has a new assistant – the spam assassin. The software tracks and alerts ...
To pass or not to pass
Oct 31, 2002
Third-year political science student and student union representative Jan Gunn (left) is a U-PASS supporter while third-year criminology student Adam Picotte is voting against it. To pass or not ...
How to fight spam
Oct 31, 2002
There may never be a spam-proof computer, however there are useful tips to stem the flow of electronic junkmail. Given the absence of legislation in Canada to control spammers and email servers ...
Inventing a better mouse trap
Oct 31, 2002
New technological advances may no longer be the sole preserve of engineers or scientists in white lab coats thanks to Roman Onifrijchuk and his team. Onifrijchuk, a senior research fellow at the ...
Three win research award
Oct 31, 2002
A trio of SFU researchers who produced a book outlining the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions has won the national Policy Research Initiative’s award for outstanding research contribution. ...
Centre aims to help students write better
Oct 31, 2002
Writing to learn. Learning to write. A reconstituted writing centre in the faculty of arts is helping instructors and faculty, on a by-request basis, recreate their courses to include writing-...
Undergrad curriculum revised
Oct 31, 2002
Courses with titles such as understanding chance statistics in everyday life, critical thinking, physics for poets and masterpieces of literature will soon be required to obtain a bachelor’s degree ...
Pub performances popular
Oct 31, 2002
Jazz trios, acoustic guitar players, electronic musicians, singers, poets, spoken word performers – OpenMic night at the SFU Highland pub has hosted them all at its first three events. “I’ve been ...
China project a success
Oct 31, 2002
Earl Drake, the director of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, was recently named a recipient of a Golden Jubilee medal honouring his contributions to ...
Improving fish forecasting
Oct 31, 2002
Bill de la Mare (left), Randall Peterman (centre)and Sean Cox make up a new SFU centre dedicated to improving fisheries management. The vagaries of mother nature and the impact of humans can make ...
SFU ponders Iran connection
Oct 31, 2002
A nine-day visit by a team of SFU representatives to Iran could pave the way for a bold new international involvement for the university. The trip came about in part as a result of two local ...
Thesis puts Victorian obscenity into context
Oct 31, 2002
The idea of Victorian England being sexually repressed – and Victorian woman sexually anesthetized – is a persistent one. Enduring clichés verge on the comical: Victorians covering piano legs so as ...
44 students supended after project plagiarized
Oct 31, 2002
Forty four students have been suspended for up to two years for academic dishonesty in a business and economics class after they palgiarized a project last year. They were also ruled to have failed ...
United Way campaign
Oct 31, 2002
SFU donates to the United Way annually, but this year for the first time the university is also providing a loan. That loan is not money but the manager of the arts co-op program Paulette ...
United Way Yard Sale
Oct 31, 2002
United Way events coordinator Yasmin Jamal (left) and Sandy Bennett sort through items for the third annual campus community garage sale Nov. 6 and 7 outside the pub. Donations can be made up until ...
Starlings beating bad rap
Oct 17, 2002
Oliver Love (left), on the Davistead farm, checks his starling boxes with David (centre) and Hugh Davis. They are birds with a bad reputation, but an SFU researcher studying the reproductivity ...
Salmon hatcheries under microscope
Oct 17, 2002
British Columbia hatcheries release about 500 million young salmon into coastal rivers annually, but are these artificial incubators actually enhancing salmon stocks? Or does this prolific ...
Council honours SFU scientists
Oct 17, 2002
Two Simon Fraser University scientists, whose applied research has advanced innovative procedures and products, are among the eight recipients of the 2002 Science Council of British Columbia (SCBC) ...
A tie for every occasion
Oct 17, 2002
Amin Saad (left) has a novel teaching aid that sits in a long drawer at home rather than on the Internet, an electronic toolbox of highly sought after learning aids. Saad’s low-tech aid is his ...
Two recognized for teaching prowess
Oct 17, 2002
SFU business professor Daniel Shapiro and accounting instructor Anne Macdonald (left) are this year’s winner of the Canada Trust excellence in teaching award worth $2,000 each. Passion, knowledge ...
Helping protect well water
Oct 17, 2002
Nadine Schuurman’s fascination with standardizing geographical information systems (GIS) has led to the creation of a gem for the provincial government. The Simon Fraser University assistant ...
Convocation Comment
Oct 17, 2002
On Oct. 3 and 4 SFU awarded a total of five honorary degree. Those receiving degrees included Dr. Victor Ling, Angus Reid, Carole Taylor, Shirley Tilghman, and Kooi Ong Tong. Below are some of their ...
President's club honours leaders
Oct 17, 2002
The Simon Fraser University President’s club has honoured social advocates Vickie Cammack and Al Etmanski, and Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen with distinguished community leadership awards. The awards ...
Curry named director at Surrey
Oct 17, 2002
With the appointment of Joanne Curry as Simon Fraser University Surrey campus director by VP-academic John Waterhouse, the team that will lead SFU’s newest campus over the next few years is in place. ...
Campus speeding serious issue
Oct 17, 2002
The fall rush on campus is prompting a call to slow down. With the semester well under way and construction begun on the new mountaintop community, ...
Piper at convocation ceremony
Oct 17, 2002
Damien Burleigh, who graduated in October with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, is a member of the SFU pipe band that performed at the ceremony.
Suffering academics urged to seek independence
Oct 17, 2002
Pity the poor academic, independent scholar Ron Gross (left) says, the one whose time is taken up by everything but the work he or she wants to do: lectures, student conferences, exam preparation and ...
Preserving labour's oral history
Oct 17, 2002
Mark Leier (left) would have liked to have listened to Homer Stevens’ fish stories. Leier, a history professor and head of SFU’s centre for labour studies, was saddened to learn of the death earlier ...
United Way Cookbook
Oct 17, 2002
President Michael Stevenson displays the new, homemade SFU cookbook, Recipes for Life, created by staff and faculty to support this year’s United Way campaign. Buy a copy at the SFU Bookstore for ...
Baby and Me
Oct 17, 2002
New BA grad Nicole MacIntyre shared her moment of glory with daughter, Hannah, 17 months, at the October convocation ceremonies.
Students speak at convocation
Oct 03, 2002
As he prepares for convocation almost a month after the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, John Green is reflective. The Simon Fraser University graduand made one of his ...
Justice flourishes in country garden
Oct 03, 2002
Clive Justice (left) caught his first glimpse of the English countryside while serving in the Canadian army overseas in the1940s. He decided then that “this was what the world should look like.” ...
A calling for medicine
Oct 03, 2002
The many challenges facing Canadian doctors these days are not deterring Gina Gill (left) from training for her dream profession. The Simon Fraser University convocation speaker, who is receiving ...
Jury duty can cause stress, study finds
Oct 03, 2002
Sonia Chopra (left) knows that courtroom trials can be taxing on those who serve on juries. The former U.S. jury consultant has studied the phenomenon of juror stress south of the border and ...
Hooked on biology
Oct 03, 2002
The roots of Paulus Mau’s passion for environmental science can be summed up in two words: field research. “I love being outside, involved with the nitty gritty of scientific research,” says this ...
Hockey in political context
Oct 03, 2002
When the puck drops on the start of the National Hockey League’s regular season Oct. 9, Irwin Shubert’s Canadian studies 390 students – past and present – are sure to be watching the annual ice ...
Greenhouse job a dream
Oct 03, 2002
When Leslie Dodd (left) moved to Vancouver from Ontario six years ago she doubted she would find her dream job. “I wanted to work in a non-commercial greenhouse, and I couldn’t imagine where I’d ...
Wong recognized for entrepreneurship
Oct 03, 2002
Calling him the “perfect fit” for its most coveted award, Ernst & Young has named SFU Chancellor Milton Wong the recipient of the 2002 Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY) Lifetime Achievement Award. ...
CJSF moves to FM frequency
Oct 03, 2002
After three shots at securing one of the few remaining FM broadcast frequencies on the Lower Mainland, the radio station that started out as a music club on Burnaby Mountain has finally hit the ...
Saving salmon by the numbers
Oct 03, 2002
In her budding career Ruth Joy has played a significant role in preserving some of British Columbia’s dwindling wildlife. Joy, who graduates with a master of science degree in statistics and ...
New Faculty
Oct 03, 2002
A selection of new faculty whose appointments began on Sept. 1, 2002. Yildiz Atasoy Yildiz Atasoy has been appointed to a tenure-track position of assistant professor of political sociology in ...
Five awarded honorary degrees
Oct 03, 2002
SFU will honour five individuals for their outstanding contributions to B.C. and Canada during this month’s convocation ceremonies. At 9:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, Vancouver Board of Trade ...
The punitive power of pizza
Oct 03, 2002
When Rebecca Godderis sinks her teeth into a vegetarian pizza she doesn’t just savour the delectable topping. The Simon Fraser University graduand ponders the enormous social, cultural and ...
Studying impact of war images
Oct 03, 2002
The replay of images in the days leading up to the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks raises questions about how we cope with reliving trauma. It sparks theories about such ...
Grad combines business with art of technology
Oct 03, 2002
Strategic business decisions are a lot easier now for Stephen van der Mescht, a producer with Vancouver video game company Radical Entertainment. Van der Mescht recently completed his management ...
Havens is finalist in Telus contest
Oct 03, 2002
SFU computing science professor Bill Havens and his SFU spin-off company Constraint Works Inc., are finalists in one of North America’s largest technology business idea competitions, the TELUS New ...
Campus now home to female majority
Oct 03, 2002
Over the past 25 years SFU has grown and changed considerably. While there is twice as much built space, including the Harbour Centre campus, the student headcount has more than doubled. The ...
UniverCity groundbreaking ceremony
Oct 03, 2002
With SFU President Michael Stevenson at the controls, Michael Geller (centre), president and CEO of Simon Fraser UniverCity Community Corp., and the corporation’s board of directors’ student ...
SFU Theatre Noon Hour Entertainment
Oct 03, 2002
Looking for something different to do after the morning convocation ceremony? How about taking in an action packed performance by Ache Brasil, Canada’s first Capoeira group at SFU Theatre, Thursday, ...
Terry Fox Medal
Sep 19, 2002
Like her classmates, Amanda Ward knows the value of taking good notes during university lectures. But throughout her studies at SFU, Ward, this year’s recipient of the Terry Fox medal, was unable to ...
Aliens bring message of hope and goodwill
Sep 19, 2002
Met an alien yet? Your chances of encountering a real live extraterrestrial seem to have improved dramatically since 1970, when a mere 300 encounters were reported around the world. Today, with ...
UniverCity grows on mountain
Sep 19, 2002
The face of the Burnaby Mountain campus is about to change, turning the top of the mountain into what Michael Geller predicts will be a vibrant university town. “A lot of people will just see one-...
Wosk centre meets targets in first year
Sep 19, 2002
While last fall’s terrorist attacks in the U.S. noticeably diminished this year’s hotel bookings in Vancouver (down 1.2 per cent in 2001), they had a surprising affect on SFU’s Morris J. Wosk centre ...
Clergyman awarded Thakore
Sep 19, 2002
A clergyman noted for helping to lead the contemporary civil rights movement in the U.S. is the recipient of the Thakore Charitable Foundation visiting scholar award for 2002. Reverend James ...
Arts medallists rated tops
Sep 19, 2002
Their areas of expertise are diverse, but as researchers, teachers and mentors they have at least one thing in common. They are top-notch. This year’s recipients of the dean of arts medal for ...
Ancient fossil cherished
Sep 19, 2002
A bee fossil dating back more than 50 million years is taking on new meaning for SFU biology professor Rolf Mathewes (left). His former high school biology teacher, Rene Savenye, gave the fossil ...
New era for Clan football
Sep 19, 2002
Football captains (left to right) Scott Plummer, Ibrahim Khan and Neil McKinlay trade their U.S. football (left) for the rounder Canadian version now that they compete in Canada. The Shrum bowl, SFU ...
School violence study earns SSHRC award
Sep 19, 2002
A SFU doctoral candidate whose research on the legal implications of school violence is attracting public attention has also caught the eye of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (...
Partners form trust for Finning land
Sep 19, 2002
Looking down from the academic quadrangle, it’s just possible to imagine that you can see the former Finning lands on Great Northern Way in Vancouver. This is the $42 million, 18.6 acre parcel of ...
Controversial Crawford Captures Sterling Award
Sep 19, 2002
Throughout his long academic career, spanning psychology and biological sciences at Simon Fraser University, Charles Crawford (left) has raised important, but unpopular issues in his classrooms, in ...
The Bees' Needs
Sep 19, 2002
To bee or not to bee. Two university students have answered that question – revealing how vital these busy, buzzing, little nectar collectors are to the health of our cities. SFU environmental ...
Opening of the SFU Surrey campus
Sep 19, 2002
B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo (left), officially opens SFU’s Surrey campus on Sept. 9 helped by Premier Gordon Campbell (centre), SFU President Michael Stevenson and other dignataries.
New Faculty
Sep 18, 2002
A selection of new faculty who joined SFU over the summer months. Charles Bingham Charles Bingham has been appointed to the tenure track position of assistant professor in the faculty of ...
HIPPY takes root in Vancouver
Sep 18, 2002
Three years ago, a handful of immigrant women dreamed of bringing HIPPY (Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters) to Vancouver. Today, the internationally based program is firmly ...
Beowulf caught for speeding
Sep 05, 2002
Rob Ballantyne (left), centre for experimental and constructive mathematics researcher, SFU mathematics professor Jonathan Borwein (centre) and Martin Siegert, academic computing services consultant, ...
Gifted world scholars choosing to attend SFU
Sep 05, 2002
Registrar and dean of student services, Ron Heath (third from left), with just a few of SFU’s United World College graduates: (l to r) Volodymyr Gusak, from Ukraine; Diego Silang Maranan, from the ...
SFU study raps TV
Sep 05, 2002
Silent on the Set, a study released by the school of communication at Simon Fraser University, reveals that race and cultural diversity receive only lip service in English Canadian prime time ...
Olympics all in the family
Sep 05, 2002
Word that Vancouver-Whistler made the 2010 Winter Olympic site shortlist on Aug. 28 was welcome news to the sports-minded family of SFU staff member Nancy McNeil. The long-distance runner’s 15-...
SFU wired for wireless
Sep 05, 2002
Graham Ballantyne (left), SFU Microcomputer store coordinator, shows off the wireless access 802.11B card needed to connect wirelessly to SFU’s network and the Internet. SFU’s operations and ...
Registrar's Office overcomes hurdles
Sep 05, 2002
It isn’t easy merging two universities into one. Just ask Diane Whiteley (left), SFU’s director of records and registration and acting director of admissions. With an overall mandate to handle ...
More than 500 pupils enrolled at Surrey
Sep 05, 2002
Six months of preparation culminates in the Sept. 9 official opening ceremony of the Surrey campus of SFU. The merger of the former TechBC with SFU was not without its challenges, as the registrar's ...
Conference focuses on Scots' role in B.C.
Sep 05, 2002
Scholars at Simon Fraser University hope their third annual conference will alleviate the dearth of research on how Scottish immigrants shaped B.C. and how their experiences here molded their ...
Noble's request dismissed
Sep 05, 2002
A special university appointments committee (UAC), at Simon Fraser University has unanimously dismissed a request from David Noble that the process used in the search for the J.S. Woodsworth chair ...
Science teaching rewarded
Sep 05, 2002
Nick Harden (centre), Michael Monagan (left) and Garry Mund each have their own approach to teaching in the faculty of science. But their prowess at the front of the class earned each of them a 2001-2...
Welsby films go on world tour
Sep 05, 2002
A Simon Fraser University filmmaker’s use of moving images as visual art is spotlighted in a major retrospective exhibition touring the world. Three of Chris Welsby’s experimental films and a six-...
Arche de Triomphe
Sep 05, 2002
Out of the dark and into the light. This abstract cast aluminum sculpture, entitled Arche de Triomphe by artist J. Huet, has been languishing in an SFU storeroom since it was donated to the ...
Donations pay for Fox statue
Sep 04, 2002
A year after the unveiling of SFU’s Terry Fox statue, the $90,000 commissioned piece of art has been paid for by a diversity of donors. The fundraising drive was completed in August, thanks to an ...
If you can't draw, this course is for you
Sep 04, 2002
Contemporary arts student Olwyn Geeling has started a new recreation course focused on art. The course is designed for those who can’t draw When contemporary arts student Olwyn Geeling arrived to ...
New professors earn awards
Sep 04, 2002
Simon Fraser University assistant professors, appointed in the last two years, have collectively netted $550,000 in new Opportunity Funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Steven ...
Lab science at a distance
Sep 04, 2002
Joan Collinge, director of the centre for distance education, with items from the biology 100 science kit mailed to students enrolled in the centre’s first online science lab class. It’s back-to-...
Kyoto inaction proves costly
Jul 11, 2002
SFU energy expert Mark Jaccard (centre), with Bryn Sadownik and John Nyboer of SFU’s energy and materials research group. The trio has written a new book on the cost of climate policy. With each ...
Mexico project helps women
Jul 11, 2002
Women in Tijuana, Mexico are lining up to enroll in a one-of-a-kind community-based education project involving Simon Fraser University. Only a year into a three-year project called Women, ...
Swenson's efforts awarded
Jul 11, 2002
Sara Swenson is winner of the C.D. Nelson Memorial prize, given annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the SFU community outside the academic sphere. It’s 3:15 p.m. ...
Immigration policy not working: Devoretz
Jul 11, 2002
The implications of China’s recent admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and what it means for Chinese-Canada immigration sparked critical debate when academics, policymakers and business ...
Tropical disease on doorstep
Jul 11, 2002
SFU assistant professor Carl Lowenberger holds a balsa wood model of the Yellow Fever mosquito. At one time the insect vector was endemic to Egypt, but has been almost eradicated from the area. ...
Science moves to front line
Jul 11, 2002
SFU chemistry chair Mario Pinto stands next to the still-like superconducting magnet that is part of the current nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer in his lab. It looks like a gigantic still ...
SFU researchers succeed in NSERC competition
Jul 11, 2002
Seventeen of 35 Simon Fraser University applications were successful in the 2002 annual national competition for research tools and instruments grants (formerly equipment grants) from the National ...
Curtain rises for teaching players
Jul 11, 2002
The Teaching and Learning Players are: (clockwise from the bottom) Adrienne Wong, Melanie Yeats, Vic Ustare, Jesai Jayhmes, Peter Abrams and Nneka Croal. The troupe uses drama to explore ...
SFU teams venture on
Jul 11, 2002
SFU has made an impressive showing in the TELUS New Ventures B.C. business plan competition, with students, alumni and even a professor among the 35 teams chosen to continue into round three of the ...
Surrey students find co-op posts
Jul 11, 2002
Employers as diverse as Electronic Arts, AIDS Vancouver, MDSI and Environment Canada are benefiting from the skills of Simon Fraser University Surrey students this summer. Nineteen ...
Sciences co-op has bumper year
Jul 11, 2002
SFU fullback and third-year molecular biology and biochemistry student Jonathan McCarthy (left) is sequencing salmon genomes in science dean Willie Davidson’s lab during his co-op work term. ...
Board passes budget
Jul 11, 2002
Funding for new initiatives to enhance student-centered programs and services across campus, as well as to increase student financial assistance, are highlights of the 2002-2003 operating budget. ...
Two professors named president
Jul 11, 2002
Two SFU professors have been appointed presidents of national organizations that advise governments and industries on the development of geoscience policy in Canada. Earth sciences professors ...
South Sea island beckons archaeologist
Jul 11, 2002
Fifty years have passed since SFU professor emeritus Richard Shutler was a graduate student at Berkeley, eager to sell his car and give up his apartment for the chance to be among the first ...
Bathing Beauties
Jul 11, 2002
These bronze bathing beauties by Kelowna artist Geert Maas have taken up permanent residence on Burnaby Mountain. The newest addition to the university’s art collection, At the Beach, can be found ...
Summer Camps
Jul 11, 2002
Young campers take aim on the field at SFU during archery practice, part of the recreational portion of mini-university, which combines in-class learning in such subjects as criminology and biology ...
World Cup 2050: humans v. robots
Jun 27, 2002
While most soccer fans are watching the dramatic developments at the World Cup in Korea and Japan, SFU Surrey professor Vadim Kyrylov (left) and his students have their eyes on a different soccer ...
Kamloops students dig history
Jun 27, 2002
Students participating in an archaeological field school on the South Thompson river in Kamloops are digging up some of the earliest indicators of the area’s history and aboriginal cultural roots, ...
Telelearning grant extended
Jun 27, 2002
The TeleLearning network of centres of excellence (NCE) has received a $915,000 grant extension from Ottawa to allow several researchers, many of whom are students, to complete their projects. ...
Simon says goodbye
Jun 27, 2002
Nick Heath (left), SIMS functional team lead at SFU, Jim Cranston, SFU chief information officer and Janet Backe, a Sierra Systems principal and SIMS project manager review the transition to ...
Dvorak's doctoral research wins medal
Jun 27, 2002
“As a grad student, you don’t normally expect you’ll be doing anything that’s actually useful – especially for the long term,” chuckles recent SFU engineering science PhD graduate Martin Dvorak (...
Bioinformatics program planned
Jun 27, 2002
Simon Fraser University is involved in the creation of a new program that will catapult B.C. to the leading edge of a new discipline called bioinformatics. Researchers and scholars at SFU, the B.C....
Diversity training looks to expand
Jun 27, 2002
A year after first offering a program of diversity workshops to the SFU community, SFU international is looking to expand its offerings. A survey of the 120 participants in the 11 workshops ...
Convocation Addresses
Jun 27, 2002
Members of the graduating class recently had the pleasure of hearing from three faculty members widely recognized for their teaching and research. History professor and Middle East expert, William ...
Only French spoken here
Jun 27, 2002
“I hope a slip of the tongue doesn’t get me expelled,” jokes Jennifer Cameron (left). The White Rock resident is one of 80 Simon Fraser University students who won a draw in the university’s ...
Women of Distinction
Jun 27, 2002
SFU kinesiology professor Diane Finegood (left) and Patricia Gallaugher, director of continuing studies in science, have won YWCA Woman of Distinction 2002 awards. Finegood was recognized in the ...
Ewers wins championship
Jun 27, 2002
SFU senior wrestler Neal Ewers was among eight Burnaby Mountain wrestlers to win a national title at the Canadian national club champion–ships held in Guelph, Ontario in early May. The win is ...
Researchers to study loyalty on Internet
Jun 27, 2002
A team of researchers from Simon Fraser University Surrey has been awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to study how consumer loyalty on the Internet relates to how ...
Eight awarded Smith grants
Jun 27, 2002
Karen Kobayashi (left) is exactly the kind of researcher the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) strives to keep in B.C. The Simon Fraser University graduate’s investigation of ...
New report card rates heart health
Jun 27, 2002
It’s a 2002 version of your old school report card, the one that said “Could do better; more effort required.” Only this time it’s an assessment of your heart’s health and what you can do to earn ...
Summertime
Jun 27, 2002
It’s summertime and the studying is easy. A SFU student catches up on her semester’s reading in the hot afternoon sun.
Softballers aim for nationals
Jun 27, 2002
Kristy Odamura (left) of Richmond tosses the ball to batting teammates during women’s national softball training camp held at SFU in June. Packing well-worn gloves and steely determination, 40 ...
Softballers aim for nationals
Jun 26, 2002
Kristy Odamura (left) of Richmond tosses the ball to batting teammates during women’s national softball training camp held at SFU in June. Packing well-worn gloves and steely determination, 40 of ...
Winston's book focuses on GM food
Jun 13, 2002
Author Mark Winston (left) says, “We need to recognize and understand potential problems if we are to take safe advantage of the benefits.” Scientists with a passion for writing and an ability ...
Study to fuel debate about B.C. education
Jun 13, 2002
SFU education professor Peter Grimmett chats with students Megan Dufresne (left) and Nemanja Tacic at Burnaby Mountain secondary school. A new Canada wide study involving Simon Fraser ...
Keeling winner of dean's medal
Jun 13, 2002
Insects use message-bearing chemical compounds such as pheromones to communicate with each other – and Chris Keeling is building an impressive academic career studying how they work. The SFU PhD ...
Medallist takes Beatles' advice
Jun 13, 2002
North Vancouver resident Lisa Pitt says she owes her realization of a high school dream to living by a line in a John Lennon song. “I stopped worrying about how I was going to get a university ...
Going for the third degree
Jun 13, 2002
President Michael Stevenson congratulates 78-year-old Lillian Newman who received her second degree, in humanities, at the June convocation. She’s planning to begin studying for another degree, ...
Choosing a more certain path
Jun 13, 2002
When James Balfour (left) finished high school, he stuck his best artwork into a portfolio and set his sights on art school. But after a little advice from family and friends, he weighed his ...
Convocation Addresses
Jun 13, 2002
Two-time Nobel prize nominee Theodore Maiman, landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander, and philanthropist Rosalie Segal, were presented with honorary degrees at the June convocation. Here are ...
Actuarial science becomes popular
Jun 13, 2002
Judging from the number of people who wrote this year’s professional actuarial exam at SFU as a first step to gaining certification in the field, actuarial science is gaining popularity. Rated as ...
Vedan focuses on First Nations
Jun 13, 2002
Richard Vedan (left), director of the University of British Columbia’s First Nations House of Learning and winner of this year’s dean’s convocation medal for graduate studies in education, was born 58...
Mapping his future
Jun 13, 2002
You could say Peter Schaub (left) mapped his life out at an early age. That’s when Schaub, the recipient of the dean’s convocation medal in the faculty of arts, first began sketching his ...
Baked potato parleyed into Parisian frites
Jun 13, 2002
Team Baked Potato: Aaron Chow (left), Laura Game and Pokin Yeung were North American champions in L’Oreal’s international on-line marketing strategy competition. Team Baked Potato’s steaming hot ...
Stevenson, books arrive in Vietnam
Jun 13, 2002
When SFU education professor Lannie Kanevsky went to Vietnam as part of a CIDA project involving SFU in preparing Vietnamese instructors to teach science, she sought a novel way to say thank you to ...
Samler has golden future
Jun 13, 2002
Wrestler Shannon Samler, with the gold medal she earned after topping her 67 kg category at the Canadian National Club championships this spring. If wrestler Shannon Samler can stay on top of her ...
Faculty hired for Surrey
Jun 13, 2002
Thirty-five faculty members have been hired to teach at Simon Fraser University’s new Surrey campus, slated to open in the fall. Faculty hired include a leading researcher in three dimensional ...
The road less travelled
Jun 13, 2002
The road to Laila Ferreira’s current academic goal – of a master’s degree in English literature – has been a little different from most of her classmates who received their degrees this June from ...
Board approves tuition increase
Jun 13, 2002
SFU will raise standards by raising tuition fees: that’s the message from the university’s board of governors who voted late last month to increase fees by an average of 30 per cent. In the six ...
Convocation for student and seeing eye dog
Jun 13, 2002
Communication graduate Janna Heather Shumila crossed the convocation platform with her seeing eye dog at the convocation ceremonies held on Burnaby Mountain earlier this month.
Convocation interpreter
Jun 13, 2002
At the June convocation ceremonies held on Burnaby Mountain, Tanya Beaudry provided a spirited sign language translation of the proceedings.
Plant Sale shopping spree winner
Jun 13, 2002
Bob Bouffard of facilities management was one of three winners in the plant sale’s first five-minute shopping frenzy. The plant sale brought in more than $9,500 – $1,000 more than last year. Raffle ...
Geography grad and daughter
Jun 13, 2002
Bryan Sherrell, a graduand receiving his bachelor of arts in geography this spring says his daughter, six- and-a-half year old Alyssa, was a source of great encouragement during his studies. During ...
Actuarial science becomes popular
Jun 12, 2002
Judging from the number of people who wrote this year’s professional actuarial exam at SFU as a first step to gaining certification in the field, actuarial science is gaining popularity. Rated as ...
Stepping beyond the ring road
May 30, 2002
They are ready to step beyond the Ring Road that has defined much of their world for the past several years. Myriam Juda, Randall Ducharme, Maria Trinh and Scott Buchanan are among six ...
Rare event celebrated
May 30, 2002
Graduation is a time to celebrate the achievements of students, but this convocation a Simon Fraser University professor is celebrating a rare event akin to the conjunction of planets. Rolf ...
A path less followed
May 30, 2002
Cheryl Mackintosh’s (left) university experience has been a little more varied than most. It began 10 years ago when she graduated from Bishop Carroll high school in Calgary and accepted an all-...
Former dropout wins medal
May 30, 2002
At 37, Diane Jules stuck courage to the sticking post and went back to school – high school. Jules, a member of the Skeetchestn First Nation near Kamloops and a Grade 8 dropout, was tired of ...
Klinger wins top award
May 30, 2002
A four-week surfing trip in Fiji during May seems like a well-deserved vacation for Bailey Klinger. The SFU business student is this year’s recipient of the Queen Elizabeth scholarship, B.C.’s ...
Student reconstructs Chinese life in Cariboo
May 30, 2002
Ying Ying Chen’s reconstruction of early Chinese life in the Cariboo is considered by fellow academics to be the definitive history of Chinese immigrant societies in the region. Chen (left, with 18...
Shooting for new goals
May 30, 2002
They made basketball history at SFU. Now four women’s basketball teammates are heading off the court — all in different directions. For each, it’s time for a new game plan, and collectively, it’s ...
Celebrating Excellence
May 30, 2002
Helen Perez, Anthony Brough and Darren Bounds have all made their mark, albeit in widely different ways. Perez juggled job and family to earn a degree at age 52. For Brough, an accident changed the ...
Setting the Standard
May 30, 2002
Ashley Monks: Governor General's Gold Medal By Roberta Staley Ashley Monks (right) is this year’s golden boy of grad students. The straight-A student is winner of the Governor General’s ...
Campbell achieves goals
May 30, 2002
Chris Campbell (left) moved west from Windsor to do his MBA — as well as find out if Vancouver’s much-touted lifestyle was “all it’s cracked up to be.” The variety of activities – roller blading ...
Award winner hopes to return to SFU
May 30, 2002
Theresa Cowan (left) is leaving Simon Fraser University for graduate school in Alberta so that one day she may return to Burnaby Mountain. “I’m leaving British Columbia to do my graduate work, to ...
Awards and honours
May 30, 2002
Landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander, philanthropist Rosalie Segal, and two-time Nobel prize nominee Theodore Maiman will be presented with honorary degrees at the June convocation. Led by the ...
Convocation 2002
May 16, 2002
SFU convocation speakers Randall Ducharme (left), Maria Trinh, Scott Buchanan and Myriam Juda get set to step beyond life within Ring Road. (See story Stepping beyond the ring road.)
Caveman finds buried treasure
May 16, 2002
There are some days when Brent Ward (left) wishes he were anywhere but several feet down a dark, dank sea cave, coated up to his shoulders in mud. “It can be disgusting,” says the Simon Fraser ...
Debunking healthcare fears
May 16, 2002
Lillian Zimmerman (left), a research associate at Simon Fraser University’s gerontology centre, puts little stock in the prevailing fear that millions more aged Canadians are about to overtax the ...
Ethics director aims to educate researchers
May 16, 2002
Hal Weinberg (left) first started questioning the ethics of his research 30 years ago while working as a physiological psychologist at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol, England. At ...
Researchers awarded $16 million
May 16, 2002
SFU researchers and alumni lead or co-lead three of the five projects collectively awarded $16 million in the second round of funding from Genome Canada in B.C. David Baillie, a professor of ...
Track team weathers storm
May 16, 2002
While the unusually cold spring weather has been hard on the local flora and fauna, consider the poor athlete. Members of SFU’s track and field team have been struggling through the wet and windy ...
Stars shine at fitness centre
May 16, 2002
Star power has arrived at Pipers fitness centre. No, there aren’t any celebrities buffing up their physiques, just a lot more fitness enthusiasts committed to working out regularly. And of course ...
Co-op term in the Big Apple
May 16, 2002
It's been almost a year since communication major Trevor Howes completed his final co-op term at buzz, a public relations firm in New York City. Here, Trevor, who graduates June 6, shares excerpts ...
Teaching about compassion
May 16, 2002
Those who work in hard-nosed fields such as law enforcement, corrections, police or social work have to be tough. But for SFU students preparing for such careers, Neil Madu is encouraging the ...
Chef a hit on small screen
May 16, 2002
Diamond University Centre (DUC) executive chef Suave Jedynak is a quiet man but he found himself the centre of attention recently when a Shaw television crew invaded his kitchen. They were ...
President signs Asia deals
May 16, 2002
President Michael Stevenson’s two week trip to Asia (April 28 – May 11) resulted in the confirmation of a number of new partnerships with educational institutions and played a key role in ...
Djwa wins medal for book
May 16, 2002
It was a decade in the making, but the resulting book has been worth the time and effort. Professing English, A Life of Roy Daniels, by SFU English professor Sandra Djwa is a spiritual biography of ...
aq surveys readers
May 16, 2002
The fifth issue of aq the magazine of Simon Fraser University has just been published and is also on line at aq. Now that the magazine has been around for a ...
Summer job sparks academic interest
May 16, 2002
As a youth living in Montreal, Michael Howlett followed his friends out West to spend summers working in the lumber industry. They’d trade the city life for more sedate communities like Houston and ...
Young pipers in training
May 16, 2002
Away, away with a pipe and drum -- that’s the rallying cry of one of the newest kids’ camps on offer at SFU this summer. Beginning July 8, members of the world champion SFU Pipe Band will teach ...
Marcia returns to first love
May 16, 2002
Open a clinical developmental psychology textbook and chances are, you’ll find SFU psychology professor James Marcia’s name frequently cited. A scholar well-respected at home and abroad for his ...
Bouquets at convocation
May 16, 2002
Bouquets will soon blossom on Burnaby Mountain as friends and families gather at Convocation Mall to honour another crop of SFU graduates. Next month, SFU will confer more than 2,400 degrees, and ...
Body mechanics for gardening
May 16, 2002
SFU physiotherapist Danny Reid shows gardener Sharon Dagni Lund from the physics department some better body mechanics for gardening. You too can learn how to garden painlessly – just visit the ...
Thriving on uncertainty
May 04, 2002
Fortunately for Hani Zaher (left), he is a person who thrives on uncertainty. When his theories flop in the lab new concepts and alternate theories start percolating in his head. The Simon ...
Chans meet the challenge
May 02, 2002
There are extreme sports – and then there’s extreme sibling rivalry. Some cases of interfamilial competition can end up as fractious as Survivor’s tribal conflicts. Not so with the Burnaby Chan clan: ...
Protect your computer from dangerous viruses
May 02, 2002
Sending and opening email attachments is akin to drinking and driving – it’s an activity that once was commonplace but is now seen as completely unacceptable and dangerous. That’s the opinion of ...
Student job outlook mixed
May 02, 2002
SFU students will find a mixed bag of opportunities when they go looking for work, whether they want full-time, a co-op workterm or summer employment. Students in computing science and ...
Parkhouse looks for quality
May 02, 2002
As the new associate dean of research and graduate studies in SFU’s faculty of applied science (FAS), Wade Parkhouse wants to recruit more quality graduate students into the faculty. The ...
Success rate for grants rises
May 02, 2002
SFU researchers from various fields continue to succeed in their efforts to secure grants for social science and humanities research. Half of the SFU researchers – 25 of 50 – who sought research ...
Nuclear breakthrough achieved
May 02, 2002
Galactic events may not be all that different from the boiling of water. That’s what SFU nuclear chemist Ralph Korteling and 17 other scientists are discovering in their investigation of nuclear ...
Trading places a success
May 02, 2002
When SFU English professor Paul Budra received an email last year from a graduate school colleague now teaching at the National University of Ireland, wheels began to turn. Lionel Pilkington’s ...
Work-study scrapped; needy students hurt
May 02, 2002
Nearly 400 of SFU’s most needy students will be affected each year by the cancellation of a highly successful 20-year-old work-study program. As well, the university will lose valuable research help....
Wosk benefactor and friend of SFU
May 02, 2002
SFU mourns the passing of one of Vancouver’s most successful citizens, Morris J. Wosk. A respected businessman and long-time benefactor and friend of SFU, he died April 9, 2002 at age 84. ...
Canadians want more security, survey finds
May 02, 2002
“We’ve come face to face with hell and returned to the shopping mall.” That’s how PhD candidate Michael Markwick characterizes the results of a March 15 poll conducted for SFU’s school of ...
Student’s project helps recruit medical staff
May 02, 2002
Surgeons with Operation Rainbow Canada, a non-profit organization offering free reconstructive plastic surgery to disfigured children around the world, are using a SFU communication student’s ...
Research dream comes true
May 02, 2002
It’s a researcher’s dream come true. The ability to travel through cyberspace and access computer resources with the storage capacity and software sophistication of hundreds of supercomputers. ...
Three researchers named winners of Newman award
May 02, 2002
Simon Fraser University fish physiologists Tony Farrell and Patricia Gallaugher, and statistician and environmental scientist Rick Routledge are this year’s recipients of the eighth annual Murray A. ...
Harnessing Internet's survey power
Apr 04, 2002
If you’re a member of Simon Fraser University’s campus email community, you can win $100 by participating in an anonymous, web-based psychological research survey. A random draw for the winner will ...
Making sense of scents
Apr 04, 2002
Kensaku Mori makes sense of scents. In recognition of Mori’s cutting-edge research in the area of olfaction (the science of the sense of smell), the Tokyo physiology professor is the recipient of the ...
SFU faces financial challenge
Apr 04, 2002
The provincial government’s operating budget grant for SFU, handed down in a recent letter, totals $150.2 million and meets university expectations, says Pat Hibbitts, VP-finance. “The provincial ...
PC/Alliance coalition unlikely
Apr 04, 2002
Stephen Harper’s Canadian Alliance party leadership victory over Stockwell Day won’t lead to a coalition with the Progressive Conservatives or victory over the Liberals in the next federal election, ...
Star athletes honoured
Apr 04, 2002
SFU Clan running back Mike Vilimek and hoop star Teresa Kleindienst have wrapped up their academic programs at SFU with more than a degree. Both are recipients of the 2001 Lorne Davies athletic ...
Senate considers TechBC
Apr 04, 2002
The academic and administrative organization required to provide degree completion for TechBC students at SFU is under way. During the March senate meeting, SFU senators discussed at length this ...
McGrath wins U.S. honour
Apr 04, 2002
Chris McGrath, assistant director of residence life at SFU, is one of this year’s Annuit Coeptis emerging professionals, an honour bestowed by the American College Personnel Association. McGrath ...
President Stevenson reflects on first year
Apr 04, 2002
A year into his presidency, SFU President Michael Stevenson met with members of the campus community in an open forum held earlier in the winter semester, to share his thoughts on the university’s ...
Work with children earns scholarship
Apr 04, 2002
Peter Abando’s passion for writing and performing music, and working with children has earned the third year bachelor of fine arts student the newly created Charlotte Lonneberg scholarship. The $5...
Students plan to conserve Pacific salmon fishery
Apr 04, 2002
Since meeting to hammer out a treaty on Pacific salmon, about 100 Grade 5-7 students from Vancouver, Seattle, Prince Rupert and Ketchikan, Alaska have produced a plan to conserve and enhance the ...
Grow a bursary
Apr 04, 2002
Buy a plant and grow a bursary. That’s the idea behind SFU’s sixth annual plant sale, at the Burnaby campus on May 22, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the east side of Strand Hall, and at Harbour Centre on ...
Students' research project on Olympics draws interest
Apr 04, 2002
What began as a research project last fall by SFU geography students on issues related to the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 winter Olympic bid, is attracting the attention of many interest groups. The ...
Co-op students off to Japan
Apr 04, 2002
Fourteen SFU co-op students will be lunching on sushi rather than sandwiches during their upcoming co-op work terms. They are among 68 Canadian students placed with Japanese companies such as ...
Maverick Winne awarded senior research chair
Apr 04, 2002
He describes himself as a bit of a maverick in educational psychology. But Phil Winne’s unorthodox view of self-regulated learning may one day help students become smarter. The Simon Fraser ...
Borweins a sibling success
Apr 03, 2002
Since their arrival here in 1993, SFU mathematicians Jonathan and Peter Borwein have helped set up world-renowned mathematics institutes, centres and research groups while raising millions of ...
Ames honoured with national award
Mar 21, 2002
Christina Ames is excited about spending most of her next three summers indoors even though she loves the outdoors. The former member of Simon Fraser University’s varsity cross-country running ...
Basketball team wins national title
Mar 21, 2002
They played a perfect season, but no win was sweeter than the one leading to the trophy acknowledging their national championship. SFU’s women’s basketball team won its first national ...
Smith nominations sought
Mar 21, 2002
Do you know of an outstanding person or organization that is making science and technology interesting and accessible to all Canadians? If so, they deserve a nomination for the Michael Smith Awards ...
New website draws attention
Mar 21, 2002
SFU’s first president’s report web site, launched in mid-February, is garnering worldwide attention. In its first month on-line, more than 3,000 visitors spent an average four to five minutes on ...
Ex-MLA named director
Mar 21, 2002
Former Liberal MLA Wilf Hurd has been named SFU’s new director of government relations replacing Ken Mennell who retired last year. Hurd, who worked briefly in the university’s media and public ...
Erasmus lectures to sold out symposium
Mar 21, 2002
SFU’s Morris J. Wosk centre for dialogue lived up to its name March 9 as more than 150 participants joined aboriginal leader George Erasmus in a lively roundtable discussion of his keynote address ...
Study focuses on head injuries
Mar 21, 2002
While young hockey players competing in the recent B.C. winter games in Williams Lake set their sights on winning a medal, a team of SFU student researchers was also hard at work focusing on the play....
Program provides seed grants
Mar 21, 2002
A new $100,000 program is giving Simon Fraser University faculty a leg up in securing major health research grants. Created by the Institute of Health Research and Education (IHRE) and funded by ...
Magna offers prizes for essay
Mar 21, 2002
The Magna for Canada scholarship fund is offering more than $346,000 in cash prizes and internships with Magna International Inc. for the student essay which best answers the question: “If you ...
TSSU contract settled
Mar 21, 2002
Simon Fraser University and the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract providing for a six per cent wage increase over three years. The ...
Enigma of Naipul discussed
Mar 21, 2002
Two pioneers from developing countries, who have contributed to literary development and international peacekeeping, respectively, will be the focus of Simon Fraser University’s final lectures about 2...
Contest helps market ideas
Mar 21, 2002
Interested in learning how to get your technology business idea to market? SFU business assistant professor Elicia Maine is providing the answers to this dilemma in her role as the education ...
Co-op students find own jobs
Mar 21, 2002
Aidan Maxted is laughing when he says that for most of his student life, he’s had “the kind of jobs that are good for building character, or maybe just building blisters:” shoveling asphalt on a ...
Quebec exchange paying dividends
Mar 21, 2002
Mathieu Bohémier-Bernard grew up speaking French at home and school – a noteworthy achievement given that he grew up in the English-speaking suburb of Coquitlam, B.C. But even with that head-...
Funds offered in competition
Mar 21, 2002
A new prototype development fund competition, sponsored by the university/industry liaison office (UILO), is offering SFU faculty, staff and students money toward testing and commercializing ...
Media suffering from 'tunnel vision,' says health researchers
Mar 21, 2002
Daily stories about a shortage of health care funding and miraculous medical discoveries may be symptomatic of a serious malady afflicting the news media, speculates Michael Hayes. “Tunnel vision,...
Internship changed her life
Mar 21, 2002
Four years ago, Silvina Nesi had never heard of AIESEC, the world’s largest student-run international educational exchange program. “All I knew of the world was one small village in my country of ...
Cardiac researcher inspires donors
Mar 07, 2002
Simon Fraser University physiologist Glen Tibbits has no hard numbers on the extent to which his talks about his research inspire potential donors to give to B.C.’s Children’s Hospital Foundation. ...
Olympic bonus for Burnaby campus
Mar 07, 2002
If the Olympics come to town in 2010, SFU could become an immediate winner. The university is the preferred site of a speed skating oval if the Vancouver/Whistler bid to host the 2010 Olympic ...
Student wins lucrative publishing contract
Mar 07, 2002
Susan Juby hasn’t completed her master of publishing degree at SFU, but already she has signed a six-figure contract with HarperCollins, U.S. for a series of three young-adult novels. Juby’s books ...
Co-op jobs sought for TechBC
Mar 07, 2002
Staff at co-operative education are scrambling to find summer jobs for 75 TechBC students as SFU moves to integrate TechBC students into the SFU community. “We discovered that these students had ...
Unique perspective on native studies
Mar 07, 2002
Eldon Yellowhorn brings a unique perspective on his own heritage to the native studies program in which he teaches at SFU. Recently hired as an assistant professor in archaeology, Yellowhorn, a ...
New website launched by external relations
Mar 07, 2002
SFU’s new external relations website, offers “something for everyone,” says communications manager and web strategist Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit. The site, launched ...
Thoughts on Nobel laureates
Mar 07, 2002
A peacock’s tail, mirror image molcules and mathematical marvels – they will help three Simon Fraser University professors convey their thoughts on the importance of Nobel prize winning work. ...
Excellence in Teaching
Mar 07, 2002
Each year three awards are given to top teachers at SFU who've been nominated for excellence in teaching awards. The winners are chosen by a committee of faculty, alumni and students who select ...
Electricity reform urged by Jaccard
Mar 07, 2002
Fall-out from the electricity crisis that hit California in 2000 should not lead Canada to abandon its own reform trend, says SFU energy expert Mark Jaccard. In a paper for the C.D. Howe Institute ...
Women, men seek basketball gold
Mar 07, 2002
Basketball could become SFU’s golden game on both women’s and men’s fronts if their winning ways continue through this weekend (March 7-10). Riding high on an undefeated 32-0 record, including a ...
Dialogue institute nears approval
Mar 07, 2002
Simon Fraser University is closer to launching a new research initiative dedicated to helping people achieve one of the most elusive goals in human communication – dialogue. Senate recently ...
The science of holding your breath
Feb 21, 2002
When Alan Morgan stops breathing, researchers in SFU’s environmental physiology lab start measuring the changes that take place in his body before he draws his next breath of air – two long minutes ...
SFU integrates TechBC students
Feb 21, 2002
SFU has moved quickly to integrate TechBC students into the university community after the province announced it was closing the Surrey university. The government accepted a proposal by SFU that ...
BC tuition freeze ends
Feb 21, 2002
The provincial government has lifted a six-year freeze on tuition fees at B.C. universities and returned autonomy for tuition fee decisions to university boards of governors. “We welcome the ...
Lecture series spotlights Nobel winners
Feb 21, 2002
“In our pursuit of excellence we all need heroes to inspire us to be the best that we can be,” says geneticist Willie Davidson, the dean of science at Simon Fraser University. “In hockey we have the ...
Salmon summit set for March
Feb 21, 2002
For years, Canada and the U.S. have struggled to establish a mutually acceptable policy on the Pacific salmon fishery. On March 11, about 100 elementary school students from both sides of the ...
Louie elected board chair
Feb 21, 2002
Longtime B.C. business leader Brandt Louie was elected the new chair of the SFU board of governors at the board’s January meeting. Louie takes over from Evaleen Jaager Roy who has served as chair ...
Herbut attracts attention of peer
Feb 21, 2002
Igor Herbut’s insight into the Yin Yang behaviour of one of the most intriguing phenomenon in solid state physics is attracting his peers’ attention. The Simon Fraser University physicist’s ...
Researcher hoping to win moth battle
Feb 21, 2002
SFU entomologist Wade Jenner is trying to stop the spread of a moth that is destroying many of the ornamental cherry trees in British Columbia, Washington and into Oregon. Jenner, a masters ...
Monks earns NSERC prize
Feb 21, 2002
Doctoral graduate Ashley Monks’ research on how hormones affect the sexual differentiation of the nervous system has earned him a 2002 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) doctoral prize. ...
Honorary degree recipients
Feb 21, 2002
Eight individuals known for their contributions to B.C. and Canada will be awarded honorary doctor of laws degrees by Simon Fraser University at convocation ceremonies to be held in June and October. ...
Referendum seminar draws crowd
Feb 21, 2002
When Gordon Gibson and John Richards organized SFU’s six-part public seminar series at the Harbour Centre campus, entitled The Referendum and Beyond: Fundamentals of Aboriginal Issues in British ...
Journal publishes limb study
Feb 21, 2002
Results of a study conducted by a team of SFU kinesiologists and researchers in Japan on how limb stiffness is controlled by the body have been published in a recent edition of the journal Nature. ...
Cox returns to Olympics
Feb 21, 2002
David Cox is practically falling asleep in his new Roots boots, sporting the Olympic logo. The Simon Fraser University psychologist’s comfy footwear is getting him through 14 to 16 hour days at ...
SFU trio win health grants
Feb 20, 2002
Three Simon Fraser University faculty members are among 310 researchers across Canada recently awarded new operating grants by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Glen Tibbits, a ...
Exploring the limits of DNA
Feb 10, 2002
Dipankar Sen’s eyes scan the ladder-like strands of information in a three-dimensional model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the genetic alphabet of higher organisms. "I have no desire to play God,...
Alumni honours for community work
Feb 09, 2002
Simon Fraser University’s outstanding alumni awards celebrate SFU graduates who have made exceptional contributions to the communities where they live and work. This year’s awards honour: Gyda ...
Basketball magic continues
Feb 09, 2002
Alison McNeill's departure from women’s basketball at SFU a year ago marked the end of a 13-year relationship between coach and players that some called magic. She may be gone. But it appears the ...
Co-op advisor offers wisdom
Feb 09, 2002
Jay Solman, SFU's newly appointed arts co-op student advisor, observes with a smile that university students are "full of ideas, and quite often, full of themselves." But for students hoping for ...
Photo contest winner
Feb 09, 2002
While participating in last summer's Ghana field school, fine arts student Becky Todor took the close-up photograph above of sisters at a festival celebrating the end of a drumming ban in Jamestown. ...
MacLean opts for left coast
Feb 09, 2002
What would motivate an academic at the height of his career in health research to make a cross-Canada trek from a university with a highly acclaimed medical school to one with none? For David ...
New MBA program set for fall
Feb 09, 2002
A new MBA program focused on training financial services executives in the more sophisticated aspects of investment management will debut at SFU in the fall. A depature from traditional, finance-...
In praise of math
Feb 09, 2002
High school students who question the relevance of math lessons should take note of Laura Cowen's wildlife statistics research. A PhD candidate in statistics and actuarial science, Cowen (above) ...
Researchers focus on water
Feb 09, 2002
SFU researchers are shaping federal policies on a widely used, but environmentally hazardous, water disinfectant. Tony Farrell, professor of biological sciences, and Chris Kennedy, associate ...
MacLeod honoured on Burns Day
Feb 09, 2002
The timing could not have been better when B.C.'s Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo attended a luncheon in honour of a key figure in SFU’s history on Jan. 25, Robbie Burns day. Campagnolo was at ...
Mahler wins Chancellor's Award
Feb 09, 2002
Fortunately for SFU’s co-op program, Richard Mahler (below), the executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Finning International Inc., has energy to spare. In between running a ...
United Way raises $82,824
Feb 09, 2002
SFU's United Way campaign is wrapping up after taking some new twists and turns in an effort to raise giving levels and sign up donors to continuous giving. In total, the university-wide campaign ...
Problems registering, student survey finds
Feb 09, 2002
The annual fall undergraduate survey reveals that students continue to have problems registering in the courses they desire. Overall, students' ability to register in such courses has declined 7 per ...
Igali keeps promise to build school
Feb 08, 2002
Olympic champion Daniel Igali will trade his wrestling belt for a toolbelt when he returns to his Nigerian homeland in March to lay the foundation for a new school. Igali vowed that when he was ...
