2019 Archives

Occasionally, one of Shivanand Balram’s students nods off in class. Balram doesn’t call them...

Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) were interviewed by the New Yorker...

Eugene McCann’s Geog 261 'Encountering the City' class recently welcomed Vancouver activist and...

Eugene McCann’s Geog 362W course on Urban Built Environments recently enjoyed a guest lecture from...

Congratulations to Taylor who recently received the Best Paper Award during the International...

The deadline for application submission is extended to March 8th, 2019.

During the Fall 2018 term, 53 students of the GEOG251 Quantitative Geography course taught by Dr....

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The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, visited SFU today to announce the...

Professor Kirsten Zickfeld is an internationally recognized climate scientist who is...

A new co-edited book by Shivanand Balram has now been published. "GIScience Teaching and...

Geography students Alysha van Duynhoven (graduate student) and Chris Yee (undergraduate student)...

The winner of the 2019 SFU Esri Canada Center of Excellence (ECCE) in GIS Scholarship is Cameron...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Kimberley Geeves for the successful...

Eleven students from the GEOG 351 (Multimedia Cartography) course participated in the 2019 Esri...

A teaching pedagogy based on carefully balanced formative and summative student assessments can...

A graduate degree from SFU Geography can open up a world of employment opportunities. The...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize that Geoff Mann was awarded 2019 FENV Dean’s...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize that Suzana Dragicevic was awarded 2019 FENV...

The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Ruslan Rydvanskiy, Geography student...

The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Anthony Lee, Geography student, has...

The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Russell Copley, Geography student, has...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize and, more importantly, congratulate the...

Congratulations to Jin Zhang!!! Jin was awarded 3rd place in the student...

Dr. Nicholas Blomley has received an Award of Excellence from the Association of Law, Property and...

Dr. Shiv Balram has received the 2019 Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Teaching Excellence...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Margaret Valerio for the successful...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Mehdi Aminipouri for the successful defence of...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Taylor Anderson for the successful defence...

Alex Smith was awarded the Esri Canada Center of Excellence (ECCE) Student Associate Achievement...

Kirsten Zickfeld, a professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, is...

The community-based research project led by Eugene McCann and Chris Miewald that focused on food as...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Cora Cao for the successful defence of her Msc...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Shuoge Shen for the successful defence of his...

Geoff Mann has been awarded CAIT's 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize for his book: Geoff Mann...

Jeannine Johnstone has been named the August, 2019 ESRI GIS Ambassador! The ERSI GIS Ambassador...

On August 21st, Lecturer Andrew Perkins and SFU Geography tech staff made use of the recently...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Alysha van Duynhoven for the successful...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Liam Fox for the successful defence of his...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Maria Wallstam for the successful defence of...

We are pleased to report that Valorie Crooks’ Tier 2 CRC in Health Service Geographies has been...

As part of the Department’s commitment to reconciliation and Indigenization, undergraduates,...

Millions of students around the world have joined the #FridaysForFuture school strikes in a...

A new podcast series produced by the Centre for Educational Excellence offers first-person accounts...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Jin Zhang for the successful defence of her Msc...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize and, more importantly, congratulate the...

Eugene McCann’s Geog 442 course, A World of Cities, recently enjoyed a guest lecture from...

Eugene McCann’s Geog 442 course, A World of Cities, recently enjoyed a visit from three City of...

The Department of Geography was well-represented at the General Strike for Climate...

Geography Minor, Julie Han, has been awarded a Canadian Association of Geographers – Feminist...

If you missed the recent Travelogues event, you can catch the video recording of it here!

The 2019 Esri Canada Vancouver User Conference on October 22nd provided a unique professional and...

Congratulations to Ana Mendez, who has received this year’s Warren Gill Memorial...

A new podcast series produced by the Centre for Educational Excellence offers first-person accounts...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Science (GIScience) have come a long way since the...

Four SFU geography-archive undergraduate students, Karyn Nelson, Izzy Wang, Maggy Corrado and...

Professor Nick Blomley, member of the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, was...

This pilot project uses a repertoire of spatial interface technologies in order to implement an...

The Department of Geography would like to recognize Anika Vassell for the successful defence...