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SFU student finds bumble bee species declining due to changing climate
September 11, 2022SFU biological sciences masters student Hanna Jackson and her research team recently published a paper in the scientific journal, Biology Letters, on how climate change affects bumble bee populations in BC. The Peak reached out to Jackson in an email interview to find out more about this landmark study. According to Jackson, BC has a higher speciation of bumble bees and given their importance in the ecosystem and food production, it was important to understand how they’re being affected. Jackson explained, “Bumble bees are particularly effective pollinators. Many plants rely on them for pollination that allows them to reproduce and…
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SFU Student Updates: June 7–13
June 6, 2021Key Updates SFU campus to remain a source of reassuring consistency We understand that the upcoming fall semester will be a time of transition and uncertainty for all. As such, SFU is committed to ensuring returning students’ comfort when in-person…
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The “Leave Meeting” button: The red forbidden fruit
March 23, 2021English 404W class. Week 2. When I first hath heard of Topics in Medieval Literature, I was told tales of its lethality, and its lethargy, of its length without end. My superiors uttered to me dreaded tales of the horror,…
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How quarantine has completely destroyed my socialization skills
January 25, 2021I can’t leave people on read IRL? (Madeleine) I think I realized that human interaction isn’t for me anymore when I said “LOL” out loud, forgetting that, no, I’m not reacting to yet another pandemic meme that my aunt sent…
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The best places to isolate at SFU
January 19, 2021Are you an SFU student without the heart to go long-distance with your partner, the university? Need a place to isolate on campus? True, SFU is quite deserted as of now, but here are some locations to hide in to…
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The Bright-er Side: Catching a cold might not be so bad afterall
September 25, 2020Did you know that in some sense of the word, every so often we experience another form of a pandemic? It’s the cold and the flu. So while the word “pandemic” might sound scary, did you also know that catching…
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Rejected ideas for the Student Union Building (SUB)
September 21, 2020Escape room (By Juztin) As any SFU student knows, being on campus is already kind of like being in an escape room: you’re anxious, have the overwhelming need to escape, and you can’t help but feel like you’ve wasted money…
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SFU students working on study-group app, StudyHubble
September 15, 2020A multidisciplinary team of SFU students are creating an app that enables undergraduate and graduate students to find study partners. The ultimate goal of the app is to connect isolated students through an online platform to create communities. The team,…
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SFU to launch social data analytics minor in Spring 2021
September 8, 2020A new social data analytics (SDA) minor will be catered to students in the faculty of arts and social sciences. According to the SDA website, the program is the first in Canada to teach students how to harness the concepts…
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Think twice about taking a gap year during the COVID-19 pandemic
July 24, 2020I am going to just straight up say it at the start: unless you have a well-thought-out, rock-solid plan, it is probably not a good idea to take a gap year from school just because of remote learning. What does…
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