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MBA spurs passion for social development June 10, 2013
MBA graduand Zain Nayani has dedicated his career to social development—and his SFU education has...

Ensuring sustainability for First Nations June 10, 2013
A backwoods hike into Utah’s canyon country isn’t what most grads would choose as a reward for...

1000th student graduates from SIAT June 10, 2013
Jeremy Mamisao is the 1,000th student to graduate from SFU's School of Interactive Arts +...

Spring 2013 honorary degree recipients June 10, 2013
During SFU's June convocation ceremonies, seven outstanding Canadians will receive honorary degrees...

SFU Pipe Band brothers honoured June 10, 2013
Jack and Terry Lee have spent more than 30 years adding pomp to SFU's convocation ceremonies.

Silver medalist advocates balance, an open mind June 10, 2013
Ironically, high-achieving B.Sc. grad Simon Mak tries not to focus too much on his studies.

Convocation Stories June 2013 June 10, 2013
While Sergeant Diane Cockle is only the third female RCMP officer to earn a PhD, her thesis is the...

PhD research fights skin cancer June 10, 2013
Computing science graduand Maryam Sadeghi is commercializing her PhD research—software and hardware...

Jaccard goes to Washington April 11, 2013
SFU environmental economics professor Mark Jaccard was in Washington D.C. April 10 to give...

2012 Staff Achievement Awards - Student Services April 11, 2013
SFU’s annual staff achievement awards honour staffers’ exceptional personal and work-related...

Lies, damned lies and African statistics April 11, 2013
Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank’s chief economist for Africa, has called the state of...

Coaching is in the bones April 11, 2013
John Buchanan retired as manager of recreation in 1997 after a remarkable 40 years at SFU, but you...

Smithsonian curator to speak at Burnaby campus April 05, 2013
On April 10 at 1 p.m., Gwyneira Isaac, curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum...

Student works on Bollywood awards March 28, 2013
SFU co-op student Samantha Pinto is working for the Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA), a musical...

SFU taps 10 for honorary degrees March 28, 2013
Two world-renowned SFU Pipe Band brothers, a former SFU president, an Olympic soccer medalist and a...

Influential math prof retires March 28, 2013
It’s not often the retirement of a mathematics professor has implications outside the math...

Tree of life March 28, 2013
SFU biologist Jeffery Joy has helped create software that lets users scroll and zoom through the...

REM prof wins Pew Fellowship March 28, 2013
Anne Salomon, an assistant professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management, has...

Beedie students win sustainability case competition March 28, 2013
A team of MBA students competed against 12 university teams from across Canada, the U.S. and...

A passion for chemistry machinery March 28, 2013
Andrew Lewis’s keen sense of innovation and his entrepreneurial spirit have transformed the...