SFU events, important dates and invitations
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SFU CHILDCARE SOCIETY FUNDRAISER
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!
We are pleased to announce that the SFU Childcare Society will be selling the much sought after 2010-2011 ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS. containing hundreds of coupons for fine dining, cheap and cheerful eating out, car rental, hotels, local shopping and almost every tourist attraction!
To order your copy, please email Kathy at kathyh@sfu.ca call 778-782-4569 or come to the childcare office and pick yours up today. Books can be delivered through campus mail or regular mail. Profits from the sale of the Books will purchase toys and equipment for the thirteen childcare programs.
Tues., Oct. 12
7pm
SFU Vancouver-Harbour Centre, Room 7000
Bill Jeffries: A Canadian in New York-Walter Tandy Murch Conquers the Big Apple
SFU Gallery Director Bill Jeffries will present an illustrated talk on the life and work of the Canadian painter Walter Murch, who left Toronto for New York City in 1927. Murch's art has links to the history of still life painting, objecthood, memory, phenomenology and contemporary Thing Theory. No reservation needed.
Tues., Oct. 12
12:30 p.m.
SFU Burnaby-SSB 7172
Earth Sciences Seminar
Speaker: John Orwin
Topic: High Altitude and High Latitude Cold Region Suspended Sediment Transfer:A measure of landscape response to perturbation.
Wed., Oct. 13
1:30 p.m.
SFU Burnaby-SSB 7172
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Seminar
Speaker:Bryan Crawford, University of New Brunswick
Topic:Matrix remodeling-visualizing the affects and the effectors
Wed., Oct. 13
3:30 p.m.
SFU Burnaby-Saywell Hall Room 10041
Faculty of Health Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Peter Regan, Board of Oregon Academy of Family Practice
Topic: Living with the Oregon Death with Dignity Law
Wed., Oct. 13
3:30 p.m.
SSB 7172
Chemistry Seminar
Speaker:Iain McKenzie
Topic: Muoniated Spin Probes in Soft Matter
Wed., Oct. 13
5:30 p.m.
SFU Vancouver-Harbour Centre campus
Centre for Education Research and Policy Event
Speaker: Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley
Topic: Reforming Teacher Incentives
Seat reservation required: mcampbe1@sfu.ca
Wed., Oct. 13
7 p.m.
SFU Burnaby-Terry Fox Field
SFU Mens Soccer vs. Trinity Western
Thurs., Oct. 14-Sat., Oct. 16
SFU Vancouver-Segal Graduate School of Business
International Symposium on Women in Media: Sex, Money and Media.
More information: www.womeninview.ca
Thurs., Oct. 14
11:30 a.m.
SFU Burnaby-ASB 10900
Canada Research Chair Seminar
Speaker: Cynthia K. Patton
Topic: The New Complex Patient? Diseases, Systems and Interventions.
Thurs., Oct. 14
3:30 p.m.
SSB 7172
Chemistry Seminar
Speaker:Thompas Malouk, Pennsylvania State University
Topic: A Nanoscience Approach to Photocatalysis and Solar Cells.
Thurs., Oct. 14
12noon
SFU Vancouver-Harbour Centre campus, Room 2105
Philosophers’ Café
Topic: Education: What does it mean to be educated? What are your most educational experiences?
Thurs., Oct. 14
7 p.m.
The ACT (Arts Cente and Theatre), 11944 Haney Place, Maple Ridge
Philosophers’ Café
Topic: Guilt and shame as cultural constructions.
Sat., Oct. 16
12:30 p.m.
SFU Vancouver-Harbour Centre campus
SFU NOW: Nights or Weekends Information Session
More information and rsvp: www.sfu.ca/cstudies/sfunow/
Sun., Oct. 17
7 p.m.
La Fontana Café, #101-3701 E. Hastings St., Burnaby
Philsophers’ Café
Topic: Eat, Love, Pray—does reaching spiritual and personal awareness assist you in finding true love?
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Assistant Director, Community Relations
Public Affairs & Media Relations
Simon Fraser University
778.782.3928 (Burnaby office)