SFU PhD student awarded Wendy McDonald “Women to Watch” Diversity Award

By: Kitty Cheung, SFU Student   The Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards, hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle, celebrates gender and diversity...

SFU to begin new Sustainable Energy Engineering program in fall 2019

By Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   On June 5, SFU’s new Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) program was approved by the B.C ministry to be hosted...

Memorandum of Understanding signed between SFU and NATO Defense College

By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   On March 29, SFU achieved a first for Canadian civilian universities when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...

SFU smart jewellery start-up keeps wearers safe

By: Amal Abdullah, Staff Writer    SFU computing science and mathematics student Georgiy Sekretaryuk has co-founded a company that focuses on public safety. NERO, completely self-financed...

Senate debates the creation of a school of environmental science at SFU

By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   A lengthy debate around the motion that “the Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors the establishment...

World News Beat

By: Trevor Steele, SFU Student   Ethiopia accepts peace deal to end twenty year dispute with Eritrea Ethiopia’s recently elected government has announced that it will accept...

Beedie MBA grad guides Kanaka Bar Indian Band toward self-sufficiency

By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   Zain Nayani, an alumnus of SFU’s Beedie School of Business, is the CEO of economic and business development for...

SFU researchers investigate ecological and human health

By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate     B.C. coastal waters contain high levels of plastic SFU’s Ecotoxicology Research group has found high levels of microplastic in the waters of the...

SFU professor weighs in on a zero-waste Vancouver

By: Wendy Yu, SFU Student   In light of Vancouver’s recent vote to ban plastic straws and foam cups and containers by June 2019, The Peak...

SFU students report incidents of serial harassment and trespassing

By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor   On May 30, several SFU students took to the Facebook page “‘Must Knows’ for courses at SFU”, to spread...