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SFU hosts its first ever blood drive
March 4, 2019On March 1, 2019, an inaugural blood drive was held at the Simon Fraser University Burnaby campus. The event was organized by the SFU Blood, Organ, and Stem Cell Club, formerly known as SFU Blood For Life. The blood drive took place in the Lorne Davis Complex from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. with approximately 160 SFU students, faculty, and staff in attendance. Staff from the Canadian Blood Services were also present to administer the blood collection. The Peak had the opportunity to interview Iman Baharmand, who is the executive director of SFU Blood, Organ, and Stem Cell Club, about…
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SFU obtains poster collection covering 40 years of Vancouver culture
November 13, 2018Written by: Michelle Gomez, Staff Writer SFU has received a poster collection which documents the past 40 years of Vancouver history, mainly through event promotion posters. The poster collection belonged to Perry Giguere, a Vancouverite who spent the past four…
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Student-run science camps for kids get funding boost from Rogers
September 3, 2017The youth science camps held at the SFU Burnaby campus this summer hosted some big names on a recent tour. Executives from the communications giant Rogers and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby North-Seymour, Terry Beech, visited the Science…
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Blood: it’s in everyone to give
September 28, 2015“Blood, it’s in you to give.” We have all heard this advertising pitch from Canadian Blood Services before, but what we don’t hear is the invisible asterisk for the fine print regarding who can and cannot donate blood. There are…
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SFU receives donation for autism research
November 17, 2014Darryll Frost and his wife Lee have donated $500,000 to SFU to support research on atypical brain development and the potential for oxygen therapy to treat autism. In 2012, when their then three-year-old son Callum was diagnosed with autism, the…
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