Grant Strate University Professor in SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) Laura U. Marks’ new book The Fold offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos.

When Morgan Peequaquat transferred to SFU from UBC, she didn’t plan to take a class about Indigenous film or help to plan a film festival in her second semester. CA 389: Selected Topics in the Fine and Performing Arts, is a course that curates and organizes the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival each year. The course is open to any SFU student interested in learning more about Indigenous film and what goes into planning a film festival, and it was an elective available to Morgan as part of the Indigenous University Preparation Pathway (IUPP).

Podcast Or Perish, a new book from Lori Beckstead, Ian M. Cook, and SFU Publishing Director Hannah McGregor, explores radical new possibilities opened up by scholarly podcasting for how we conceive of knowledge creation and peer review.

As the 2023 recipient of the Lighthouse Lab prize, School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) student Sorren Jao completed a Web Development Bootcamp in December 2023. When Sorren applied for the Lighthouse Labs Prize, which offers a free spot to Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology students in Lighthouse Labs’ intensive Web Development Bootcamp, his goal was to use the opportunity to complete his full-stack development roadmap.

Three scholars from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology (FCAT) have been recognized for their innovative community engagement work with grants from Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Community Engagement Initiative. James Long and Ryan Tacata in the School for the Contemporary Arts are finding creative ways to connect community engaged work and creative practice, Tara Mahoney in the School of Communication is promoting civics and climate leadership amongst youth, and Suzanne Norman in the Publishing Program is offering a series of professional development webinars to emerging Indigenous storytellers and editors.

As part of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology’s (FCAT) Community in Practice speaker series, Dr. Kim TallBear presented her lecture, “Beyond Diversity and Inclusion in the Academy: Restoring Indigenous Land and Life” on January 4th to a combined audience of 250 at The Wosk Centre for Dialogue and online.