SFU economics professor found dead in Colombia

By: Michelle Gomez, News Team Member Three weeks after going missing in Colombia, SFU economics professor Ramazan “Ramo” Gencay was found dead.      Gencay travelled...

SFU’s Gries Labs looks for green solutions to pest control

Written by: Chris Baxter, SFU Student   SFU grad student Andreas Fischer keeps his lab stocked with around 100 specimens of Canada’s most poisonous spider, the...

SFSS lobbies provincial government for lower student loans, open access resources, and sexual violence policies

Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor   In a recent lobbying trip to Victoria, student directors from the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) met with provincial...

Board Shorts

Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor   Board approves motion to extend subleases with CJSF and SFPIRG on a month-to-month basis The original expiry date on...

SFU’s Centre for Students with Disabilities changes name

Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   Effective November 2018, the Centre for Students with Disabilities (CSD) at SFU has changed its name to the...

SFU student group aims to ban plastic water bottles on campus

Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor   An SFU student group is lobbying to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on Burnaby campus. Ban the Bottle...

New study finds universities depending more on contractual labour

Written by: Srijani Datta   The Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a report concluding that around 53% of all faculty appointments in 2016–17, made...

World News Beat

Written by: Sakina Nazarali, SFU Student   New drug proves itself a 99% effective cure for HIV/AIDS After the first clinical trial of the drug Gammora, results...

Grad Minutes

Written by: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer   Revisions in the cards for SFU’s practices relating to research personnel At the latest Graduate Student Society (GSS) Council meeting,...

GSS Directors’ Elections: Know Your Candidates

Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   There are over 4,000 graduate students in SFU, who are spread across 38 academic programs in all three...