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In the News 2013
- Diana Allen (Earth Sciences) and collaborators predict that uncorrected human practices will combine with climate change to reduce useable groundwater availability
2012
- Earth Sciences professor John Clague studies the relationship between earthquake-induced ground motions and landslides in the eathquake-stricken Haida Gwaii region of BC
- Barbara Frisken's physics laboratory reaches for the stars with a research experiment to be conducted at the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield
- A study of variation in DNA methylation by Eldon Emberly (Physics) and co-researchers indicates that this chemical marker may be a predictor of an individual's age, gender, stress, cancer and early-life socioeconomic status
- Biological Sciences professors Gerhard Gries and Zamir Punja and graduate student Joseph Schwarz discover that sunbathing by Western Boxelder bugs activates the production of a chemical protectant
- Molecular Biology and Biochemistry professor Esther Verheyen and her trainee Joanna Chen discover a cell growth regulator that may impact tumor growth in humans
- Together, Biological Sciences professor Arne Mooers and an international team of scientists use fossil data to create a unique map of the evolutionary relationships of known bird species
- The big Guinness Book of World Records recognizes a new tiniest book in the world, made possible by the work of nanoscience expert Karen Kavanagh and co-workers
- Glycobiology researcher David Vocadlo (Department of Chemistry) and co-workers explore a link between the sugar levels of a particular protein in the brain and Alzheimer's disease
- Dirke Kirste (Earth Sciences) and an international team of scientists study leakage-free underground storage of carbon dioxide as a global greenhouse gas reduction strategy
2011
- Researchers in Mark Paetzel's laboratory (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) use X-ray crystallography to study the assembly of a protein complex needed for E. coli cell viability
- A giant ant fossil discovered by SFU scientists Bruce Archibald and Rolf Mathewes (Biological Sciences) and their co-researchers provides information on how organisms adapted to global warming events of the past
2010
- Lynne Quarmby of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry named by the Vancouver Sun as one of BC's 100 Women of Influence
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