Oxford Global Challenge

SFU students score top prize at Oxford Global Challenge

A team of SFU undergraduate students earned first place at the Oxford Global Challenge, an international social innovation competition, earlier this month for their research on reducing medical waste. The trio — science students Iman Baharmand and Alec Yu, and business student Kimberley Venn — beat out 14 other teams from around the world. “The experience at the international championships was very encouraging,” said Baharmand, who is in third year biological sciences. “We met individuals from around the world who had passionately devoted time to researching a problem that had impacted their communities.” The students took home a prize of…

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