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SFU PhD student awarded Wendy McDonald “Women to Watch” Diversity Award

Peak Web June 21, 2018

By: Kitty Cheung, SFU Student   The Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards, hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle, celebrates gender and diversity in leadership. This year, an SFU engineering PhD student has won in the "Women to Watch" category.      Careesa Liu, a biomedical engineer and co-founder of the Surrey Collaborative Outreach and Research Experience (SCORE), is the 2018 recipient. She has earned the award for her research in brainwave-based technologies to assess brain function, as well as for her leadership in a healthcare training program for youth.   On women’s empowerment Named after Wendy…

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Students win national award for their innovative STEM training program

Peak Web November 21, 2017

Two Simon Fraser University PhD students are getting recognized locally and nationally for their innovative student training program, one that combines the fields of engineering, entrepreneurship, and science. Sujoy Ghosh Hajra and Careesa Liu, PhD candidates in biomedical engineering, were…

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