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Hackathon improves cancer patients’ lives
September 26, 2016It was a cloudy Saturday night, and SFU’s Burnaby campus was quiet — except for the 300 students frantically coding as part of the lumohacks 24-hour hackathon. Lumohacks was the first big health hackathon in Canada. For those unfamiliar with what a hackathon is, it is an intensive session with a set time limit where groups come together to think up a new idea via computer programming. All participants, from first-year students to PhD candidates in all disciplines, were invited to create a product or technology to improve treatment and everyday life for cancer patients. The event was organized by…
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Student wins street banner contest
June 1, 2015An SFU student is making the streets of downtown Surrey a little bit more cheerful. In her second year in SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, student Nancy Chen won Surrey’s 2015 Public Art Street Banner Design competition with…
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SFU won’t accept Bitcoin anytime soon
April 7, 2014SFU recently announced that it won’t be accepting Bitcoin as payment for student services in the near future — however, the university is open to the possibility. Mark McLaughlin, executive director of SFU ancillary services, said that the university must…
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SFPIRG group hosts Pancakes not Pipelines event
March 30, 2014The newly launched SFU action group Wild Salmon Creative Action sought to spread environmental activism and awareness last week through a medium everyone could enjoy: pancakes. The Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG) affiliate’s breakfast fundraiser “Pancakes Not Pipelines,”…
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SFU cracks down on academic dishonesty
March 17, 2014A recent CBC survey has shown that SFU punishes over ten times the number of cheaters as UBC. Rob Gordon, criminology professor at SFU, explained that the survey results, based on the 2011/2012 school year, measure the level of faculty…
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Terms and conditions may apply
March 17, 2014A film screening at SFU Burnaby suggests that Internet users are signing up for more than the latest iPhone app when they check off “I agree” to the Terms and Conditions. Before leaving on vacation to the US, Irish tourist…
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Perogies, sauerkraut, and borscht, oh my!
March 3, 2014Confession time: I have no idea how to spell perogy. Pierogi? Pirogi? Whatever the spelling, smother it in fried onions and sour cream and it’s guaranteed to be delicious, which is why I was so excited to hear about the…
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