Faculty updates

Brianne Kent, a psychology professor at SFU, studies how sleep disturbances contribute to the progressive memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Kent has been named a Canada Research Chair in 2021 and will be receiving $350k in research funding from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF).

Reder shares the story behind the award from the Chetna Association—a group whose work is to raise awareness and promote dialogue about caste-based issues—and the parallels she sees between the evolution of Indigenous and Indian literatures.

Humanities Undergraduate Chair Emily O’Brien received this year’s Cormack Teaching Award in recognition of her “passionate commitment to the importance of liberal arts in the 21st century university.”

FASS Teaching Fellow and History professor Jennifer Spear is working to create more equitable and robust teaching assessment methods.