Education professor Tenzin Doleck and postdoctoral fellow Bahar Memarian studied the application of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) in the use of artificial intelligence in higher education. They encourage users to carefully consider why and how it is used in order to protect academic integrity.

SFU Health Sciences professor Julia Smith’s new book analyses Canada’s COVID-19 response from the perspective of those who staffed it. Conscripted to Care: Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response presents crucial lessons in public health and how it relates to gender and economic equality, as well as public policy.  

Will it ever be possible to end the longstanding, transgenerational conflict between Palestinians and Israelis? SFU scholar Nawal Musleh-Motut is exploring how problematic master narratives and collective memories of the Holocaust and the Nakba—which continue to sustain the conflict—can be challenged, complicated and disrupted.

Within every living cell on earth, countless microscopic “molecular machines” are at work carrying out cellular functions. They convert energy, transport materials and assemble complex structures. When these complex machines malfunction it can lead to disease, so SFU physicist Matthew Leighton and physics professor David Sivak are working to better understand molecular machines.

They recently published a paper outlining a new “theoretical microscope” for peering into the complex world of molecular machines.

Today is a special day marking the 100th installment of Simon Fraser University’s Scholarly Impact of the Week!

Launched in March 2021 to celebrate SFU researchers’ inspiring ideas and discoveries, the series has travelled to the far reaches of the universe, deep into the microscopic world—and many points in between.

Crowdfunding can be a lifesaver, says SFU health sciences professor Jeremy Snyder, but it can also raise privacy concerns and reflect existing inequities in society. His new book, Appealing to the Crowd: The Ethical, Political, and Practical Dimensions of Donation-Based Crowdfunding, explores the wider historical and ethical context of giving practices.

Imagine telling a story in an Indigenous language and having a computer interpret and produce digital images for the story. SFU School of Interactive Art and Technology professor Jon Corbett aims to make this happen by developing computer coding using nehiyawewin, the Plains Cree language.

How should new university students approach their first essay? Do professors really expect students to do all the readings? What exactly is APA Style? SFU Education lecturer Joel Heng Hartse has answers to these questions. His short survival guide to university reading and writing can help new academic writers overcome their fear of long papers. 

SFU microbiologist Mark Paetzel and his research team used the brightest light in Canada to study the atomic details of viral protein, work that sheds new light on potential treatments for COVID19.

The paper, X-ray crystallographic characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease polyprotein cleavage sites essential for viral processing and maturation was recently published in Nature Communications.

Since 2017, the government of China has interned Uyghurs, Kazakhs and members of other Muslim groups indigenous to the Xinjiang region in northwest China. Researchers estimate that more than one-million people have passed through the state’s re-education camps. 

Incoming SFU postdoctoral fellow Guldana Salimjan, international studies professor Darren Byler, and scholars at the University of British Columbia created the Xinjiang Documentation Project to provide a platform for documenting state crimes and the lived experiences of these minorities in China.