Nathaniel Tok
SFU alum named Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25
March 2, 2023Mireta Strandberg-Salmon, a recent graduate of SFU’s resource and environmental management and dialogue program was recently awarded as a Top 25 Environmentalists under 25. The Peak reached out to Strandberg-Salmon to discuss her time at SFU and what the award means to her. Strandberg-Salmon began her environmental work in high school working to stop the sales of single-use plastic water bottles from vending machines. She continued her initiative at SFU while leading the Ban the Bottle campaign. The group successfully helped to set up 168 water bottle refill stations across the SFU campuses and campaigned for the phasing out of…
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Animal meeting concludes humans are garbage at recycling
August 8, 2022Dear humans, We strongly encourage you to read the latest meeting minutes for the weekly Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area Bear Community Meeting as part of the Burnaby Mountain Neighborhood Committee. We trust you will enact changes to your garbage disposal…
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Researcher finds increase of traumatic brain injuries among precariously housed population
March 21, 2022Dr. Tiffany O’Connor, SFU’s recent psychology alum and now a clinical neuropsychologist at Hamilton Health Sciences, has found a relationship between the precariously housed population in BC and high rates of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). The Peak reached out to…
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SFU researcher publishes first study on climate change’s effects on mental health
March 8, 2022SFU health science assistant professor Kiffer Card and a team of health and psychology researchers from the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance recently concluded a study outlining the effects of climate change on British Columbians’ mental health.The research is…
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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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Research Roundup: SFU researchers develop AI tool to better diagnose COVID-19 cases
July 1, 2020SFU Researchers and Providence Health Care (PHC) are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better understand how to detect COVID-19 cases. The tool, which is currently under testing in St. Paul’s Hospital, will help clinicians distinguish between COVID-19 pneumonia and non-COVID-19…
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Faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing kits are being developed by SFU researchers
May 19, 2020SFU Post-Doctoral Fellow Lena Dolgosheina and Professor Peter Unrau of molecular biology and biochemistry are using their previously developed imaging technology called Mango to help produce cheaper and faster COVID-19 testing kits. In an email interview with The Peak, Dr.…
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SODIUM PODIUM: Nine salty opinions to bring a tiny raging light to your life
March 21, 2020Please stop asking me if I know someone you know from SFU SFU is a very large academic institution. We span over three campuses, offer a whole slew of programs, and have over 30,000 students. So what I truly don’t…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Sodium Podium
November 24, 2019This first-year class cost you $500, the least you could do is pay attention! As a fourth year filling up her breadth courses with first year classes, I have made some observations, and I am worried. As I sit in…
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Overly friendly professor destroys students’ lives for forgetting to call him by first name
November 6, 2019Assistant professor Michael McManfred, a recent hire for the Department of Legal, Ethical, and General Investigative Technology (LEGIT), has been censured by the university for destroying the well-being of his first year LEGIT 105 students. Reportedly, the LEGIT professor’s tyranny…
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