Kim Rossmo
On October 29, 2005, at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Kim Rossmo became the second SFU graduate to receive the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy. His research on geographic profiling of serial crime is now used internationally. He was one of the very first to warn that there was a serial killer preying on women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He is a research professor in criminal justice at Texas State University, San Marcos.
Nora and Ted Sterling established the prize at SFU in 1993 to honor “work which challenges complacency and that provokes controversy or contributes to its understanding.”
Winners of the Prize
- 2011 Bruce Lanphear, Faculty of Health Sciences
- 2010 Mark Jaccard, School of Resource and Environmental Management
- 2009 Michael Worobey, Biology
- 2008 Heribert Adam, Sociology
- 2007 Bruce Alexander, Psychology
- 2006 Roy Miki, English
- 2005 Kim Rossmo, Criminology
- 2004 Herb Grubel, Economics
- 2003 Zamir Punja, Biology
- 2002 Charles Crawford, Psychology
- 2001 Gary Mauser, Business Administration
- 2000 Doreen Kimura, Psychology
- 1999 Ezzat Fattah, Criminology
- 1998 Mark Winston, Biology
- 1997 John Lowman, Criminology
- 1995 Russel Ogden, MA student, Criminology
- 1994 Parzival Copes, Economics