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2018 News Stories

  • November 09, 2018
    Nanomachines have all the moves

  • October 04, 2018
    Prof. Nancy Forde Interview by CBC's On the Coast (audio courtesy of CBC Radio 1)

  • September 19, 2018
    First-year Biophysics Student Antonia Kowalewski Receives Schulich Leader Scholarship

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    Michael Chen's Growing Appreciation for Open Textbooks

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    Sarah Johnson Wins National Teaching Award

  • May 17, 2018
    Planck Team Awarded 2018 Gruber Prize in Cosmology

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    Igor Herbut Receives Marko Jaric Award

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    D-Wave Offers SFU Physics Undergrads a Close-up View of Quantum Computing

  • March 13, 2018
    Leea Stott 2018 Recipient for Undergraduate Research in Inorganic Chemistry Award

  • March 01, 2018
    Igor Herbut Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

  • February 08, 2018
    Forde Lab Innovation - Wireless, Portable Spinning Microscope

  • January 08, 2018
    New findings on dark energy question Einstein’s cosmological constant

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