Esther Tung
SFU grad launches Vancouver’s first affordable 3D printer
May 20, 2014Lego pieces, forks, guns, medical models, and makeup; with capabilities to create everyday items, 3D printers are poised to disrupt mass production and the manufacturing sector as a whole. Leading the charge is SFU graduate Eugene Suyu, who recently put Vancouver on the map with the launch of his company, Tinkerine, and its revolutionary printer DittoPro. The DittoPro is a prosumer-level 3D printer that, according to Suyu, is meant to “sit in your office or home and not look like it’s out of place.” Suyu graduated two years ago from the SIAT program, where he encountered his first 3D printer…
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Community engagement pays off
January 6, 2014Two first-year SFU students are putting our university’s motto of “engaging the world” to practice, as each have been awarded a $60,000 scholarship for their community service while in high school. Now environmental science major Deven Azevedo and biomedical physiology…
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University Briefs
November 25, 2013UBC student attacked in attempted robbery An 18 year-old UBC student is recovering after a failed early morning robbery attempt that left him with several injuries. The attempted robbery occurred just after 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 19. The student was…
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The Buck Stops Here
November 25, 2013In the span of a single day, Bitcoin has gone from being seen as “fake online money” (as succinctly described to me by an Electric Owl bouncer), to being recognized by the US Senate as a force to be reckoned…
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Student pushes for adoption of Bitcoin on campus
November 12, 2013Since its unveiling one week ago, almost $100,000 in Canadian dollars has been exchanged for bitcoins at the world’s first Bitcoin ATM, located at Waves Coffee House on Howe Street in downtown Vancouver. Bitcoin is a virtual currency which has…
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Former SFSS board members come forward after incident
October 28, 2013Last week, The Peak reported SFSS environmental representative Monique Ataei’s allegations of a physical altercation with member services officer Moe Kopahi on Oct. 11 (“SFSS internal conflict follows alleged physical altercation”). Ataei claims that Kopahi inadvertently struck her with a…
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Why is feminism all about men?
October 28, 2013Renaming the feminist movement is a hot topic, particularly among those in the equal rights movement. The more politically correct among us wax on about being inclusive to trans, intersex, and other kinds of self-identified women who don’t want to…
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New Burnaby campus Starbucks offers fair trade coffee
October 15, 2013After almost two years of negotiation, Starbucks finally opened at SFU, offering students an opportunity to order their grande-extra-hot-soy-latte-with-extra-foam while on the mountain. The new coffee shop has opened its doors in MBC, replacing the old SFU Security and Parking…
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Youth tackle BC economy at Community Summit
October 7, 2013On Saturday, Sept. 28, SFU Surrey played host to “Our Future, Our Voice,” the first event of the week-long 2013 Community Summit: Charting BC’s Economic Future, hosted by SFU Public Square. The day-long forum invited youth between 16 and 25…
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You Should Have Stayed Home: A G20 Romp
September 30, 2013For 36 hours, Mississauga native Tommy Taylor was part of the largest mass arrest in Canadian history at the G20 protest. Twenty-three of those hours were spent with almost 40 other men in a 10 by 20 foot cell, without…
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