Henry Tran
Senate Report
September 18, 2017CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that senator Paul Percival was once a student at SFU. Percival came to the university as a professor in 1979, though he did not study here. Senate discusses university revenue Simon Fraser University senators reviewed the 2017 financial report at the SFU Senate meeting on September 11. According to the report, the institution has earned $689 million in revenue with students making up the bulk of the contributions followed by the provincial government at 36% and 31% of the total amount, respectively. Senator Paul Percival commented that when he first started as…
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SFU Connect email software to be replaced by Microsoft Exchange
September 13, 2017There are big changes ahead for those with an SFU email account. The university has decided to leave behind SFU Connect, powered by the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and adopt Microsoft Exchange as its new email platform. According to the university…
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Board Shorts
September 1, 2017By Cecile Favron and Henry Tran U-Pass referendum coming this fall The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) will ask undergraduate students in a referendum this fall if they want to keep their U-Pass beyond the end of the school year.…
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Knowing the price puts a damper on consumer enthusiasm
August 2, 2017The enjoyment of activities and new items decreases as time goes on — the twenty-fifth bite of a chocolate bar is often less enjoyable than the first. However, researchers wondered how knowing the price of a given product might affect…
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SFU professor leads research on sexual health for people with HIV
July 31, 2017A Simon Fraser University health sciences professor, at the leading edge of global research on the sexual health of people affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has secured substantial funding to continue her work. Epidemiologist Angela Kaida, whose research…
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Report: Canada has the tools to lower vehicle emissions
July 27, 2017A pair of researchers from Simon Fraser University recently released a report asserting that the time is now for the country to move vehicles away from producing carbon emissions. The report by master’s student Tiffany Vass and professor Mark Jaccard…
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Increasing demand for solar power stirs up environmental concerns
July 26, 2017As global demand for solar panels and other green technology grows, so will pressure on Canada’s mining sector to produce the minerals and metals required to harness clean energy. This means that the mining sector needs to focus on environmentally-responsible…
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Graduate Student Society marks 10-year anniversary
July 25, 2017The SFU Graduate Student Society (GSS) is marking 10 years since it became independent from the Simon Fraser Student Society and began to offer services geared towards master’s and PhD students at the university. “During those 10 years, we grew…
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Graduate students find LGBTQ+ newcomers in Surrey lack support services
July 17, 2017A team of graduate students at Simon Fraser University uncovered a major gap in support services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) immigrants and refugees. Despite being one of the largest receivers of refugees and immigrants in…
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Professor’s work on housing crisis brings big recognition
July 10, 2017SFU professor and director of the City Program Andy Yan was recently honoured by the Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) for a decade of work on housing affordability and urbanization in Vancouver. A leading expert on the province’s housing…
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