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Guest speaker Gwynne Dyer engaged an SFU Woodward’s audience in a difficult discussion on March 25, titled “The New World Disorder?”

Following instances of war in Libya, Iraq, and the recent conflict in Ukraine, is the world getting out of control and heading towards violence, chaos and another cold war? Dyer gave a more positive spin to the issue, emphasizing it is “not as bad as it seems.”

Surrey

Beedie School of Business held the fifth annual Opportunity Fest at SFU Surrey campus on March 26.

The festival gave students a chance to display their innovative projects and ideas, and be recognized for their work. The judges also selected several winners who received prizes for their efforts.

Vancouver

Students were offered a two-day NVivo for Windows intensive training program over March 27 and 28. The workshop was created and facilitated to build students’ knowledge of NVivo qualitative data analysis software.

It thoroughly explained the use of NVivio from the set-up step to the final report and presentation step, and gave aspiring researchers a chance to practice using the analysis software.

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