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SFU student company racks up first place prizes for health-care solutions
July 10, 2017It is only half way through the year, but a company founded by SFU students has already claimed the top place in a number of entrepreneurship competitions — racking up more than $40,000 in prizes. Orello Hearing Technologies, a startup working to create affordable hearing aids, took first place at the Hong Kong-Canada Investment Pitch Competition last month. A total of three out of the six teams in the national finals were from the university, and Orello won $10,000 in cash and $5,000 in legal assistance. The company CEO and alumnus from the Beedie School of Business William Brenner told…
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SFU athletes clinch best season yet in collegiate sports
July 3, 2017By: Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Simon Fraser University athletes are setting the bar high for themselves next season, having just come off their most successful year ever in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) division. The university secured a 15th place finish…
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SFU engineer tests technology for youth mental health, addiction recovery
July 3, 2017A Simon Fraser University neural engineer is getting noticed for her research combining engineering and psychiatry to improve youth mental health. Faranak Farzan is currently involved in two technology trials, one soon to be underway at Surrey Memorial Hospital testing…
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University researchers make a breakthrough with tiny, biodegradable battery
July 3, 2017A team of researchers have developed an innovative solution to electronic waste, inventing a biodegradable battery that packs enough power to replace the average lithium ion cell battery. SFU researcher Erik Kjeang, who is the Canada Research Chair in Fuel…
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SFU researchers develop novel method for predicting hockey performance
July 2, 2017A software program designed by two computing science researchers has proven successful in predicting player performance. When sport scouts look for young talent, they have to observe players across a number of games in order to assess their skills and…
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A breakdown of the new SFSS elections policies
June 30, 2017SFU students are bound to notice some differences come the next annual student society election in contrast to previous years. The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) unveiled a new set of elections and referenda policies passed by the previous board…
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SFU club to host sold-out sports analytics hackathon
June 26, 2017A student-run sports analytics club will be hosting the inaugural Vancouver Sports Analytics Symposium and Hackathon (VanSASH), a two-day event running from July 8–9 at Harbour Centre. The event is currently sold out as students from SFU, UBC, BCIT, the…
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Students gather for community dinners during Ramadan
June 26, 2017By: Hamza Malik Simon Fraser University’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) hosted a series of weekly iftaars, special dinners involving the breaking of the fast, for students on campus during the month of Ramadan. Many students of diverse backgrounds gathered each Friday…
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SFU museum returns Indigenous artifacts to the north
June 26, 2017A collection of Indigenous artifacts from the museum at Simon Fraser University was officially repatriated to its home communities at a ceremony on National Aboriginal Day last week. The Tse’K’wa artifacts are part of the Donaldson collection held by the…
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“O Canada,” we need to remember you — all of you
June 23, 2017Written by Zach Siddiqui, Opinions Editor Woven together in Quebec City in the 19th century and swiftly setting a previously dark void in our country’s identity alight, the verses of “O Canada” resonate across this country’s collective consciousness with alacrity.…
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