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Professors get cyberbullied, too
November 24, 2014Cyberbullying in our school systems is usually understood as one student projecting their antagonisms upon another student, but what many do not realize is that cyberbullying can also be directed towards professors. Lida Blizard, a nursing instructor who recently completed her PhD in educational leadership at SFU, conducted a study that looks at the cyberbullying of faculty staff members. Blizard stated, “This study found that the platforms commonly used by students to target staff members were emails, end of term online evaluations, and faculty calling sites — for example, RateMyProf.” The study also found that the most common factors behind…
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SFU receives donation for autism research
November 17, 2014Darryll Frost and his wife Lee have donated $500,000 to SFU to support research on atypical brain development and the potential for oxygen therapy to treat autism. In 2012, when their then three-year-old son Callum was diagnosed with autism, the…
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Unexplained dark spots raise questions about Venus’ surface
November 10, 2014The surface of Venus may be more complex than previously thought. Elise Harrington, an SFU earth sciences undergraduate student and intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, has made new discoveries as to how radar properties change along Venus’ mountain…
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Researchers highlight need for better bike safety
November 10, 2014Although Vancouver has become known as a cycling hotspot, cycling around the city is not without its risks. According to Meghan Winters, associate professor of health sciences, cycling is a great way to get around, but when incidents and injuries…
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Undersea pig carcasses provide forensic breakthrough
November 3, 2014New research from SFU’s criminology department shows that the level of oxygen in the ocean has a significant impact on the decomposition of submerged bodies. The study involved the three-year observation of three underwater pig carcasses in the Saanich…
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SFU researcher develops allergy-fighting database
November 2, 2014While you may be stuck with that annoying cat allergy for some time longer, the face of allergy research is about to change in a big way. The Allergy and Asthma Portal (AAP), an online database and search engine developed…
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CLIVE takes People’s Choice Award at MIT contest
October 20, 2014CLIVE (Coastal Impact Visualization Environment) is a project co-directed by an SFU professor. The project won the People’s Choice Award at a major MIT-sponsored contest that concluded in early October. The contest, entitled ‘Communicating Coastal Risk and Resiliency,’ focused on…
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