New research from SFU economics professor David Freeman shows that people can make better decisions by more carefully considering how their choices are interconnected. His recent paper, Revealing Choice Bracketing, looks at bias in how people perceive their choice set when making decisions.
 

Co-authored with Andrew Ellis from the London School of Economics, the study was published in the American Economic Review, one of the oldest and most respected economics journals.

SFU Distinguished Professor of Marine Biodiversity & Conservation Nick Dulvy collaborates with scientists worldwide to address global environmental challenges like the effects of climate change and overfishing on marine biodiversity.

His compelling research is consistently the within the most widely read from SFU, particularly his work on the status of sharks and rays.

His recent paper, Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks & rays, made the cover of Nature when published in spring.
 

On mountains all over the world and on Arctic and Antarctic snow, swaths of orange, green, or watermelon-red algal blooms appear on the icy landscape.

SFU molecular biology and biochemistry professor Lynne Quarmby is a leading expert on watermelon snow, an interest arising from her deep engagement with the climate crisis. Using innovative approaches to sequence the genome of red snow algae, Quarmby and her research team are making cool new discoveries.

SFU education professor and UNESCO Chair in Bio-cultural Diversity and Education David Zandvliet uses a Two-Eyed Seeing approach in his teaching and research, a concept developed by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall. 

His recent paper, A Two-Eyed Seeing Teaching and Learning Framework for Science Education, with Connie Cirkony and John Kenny from the University of Tasmania outlines ways to integrate the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing with the strengths of Western science into a pedagogy that benefits students, communities and the planet.

 

Canada’s ethnic media plays an essential role in uniting minoritized immigrant, ethnic and racial groups, and over time has evolved from analog to digital, while remaining relevant across generations. They play a vital part in shaping democracy by providing a voice and platform for underrepresented groups.

The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada, by communication professors Daniel Ahadi and Ahmed Al-Rawi with alumnus Sherry Yu explores the crucial role of ethnic media in the nation’s public sphere.

In 1977 nuclear physicist Erle Nelson and colleagues published a paper suggesting the use of accelerated mass spectrometry (AMS) to date archaeological artifacts. Almost five decades later, AMS is still used today to learn about past climates and cultures, in crime scene investigations, and more.

SFU professor and Canada Research Chair in Archaeological Sciences Mike Richards, and a former student of Nelson's, talks about the impact of this innovation and how it is used today. 

SFU School of Interactive Art and Technology professor Alissa Antle and postdoctoral researcher Alexandra Kitson are using the power of virtual reality and imagination to help young people learn emotional regulation. Their breakthrough research is changing how we think about technology and helping improve mental health.

What does it mean to be diagnosed with dementia caused by Alzheimer’s? Will the disease advance rapidly over a few years or more moderately over decades?

SFU engineering science professor Mirza Faisal Beg and statistics and actuarial sciences professor Jiguo Cao analyzed the data of over 400 individuals in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database to predict time-to-conversion for DAT.

This is the first known study that performs a comprehensive survival analysis for subjects in various stages of the disease.

Biomedical physiology and kinesiology professor and chair Max Donelan co-leads SFU's WearTech Labs, a state-of-the-art Core Facility that researches and develops wearable technology to improve lives. His recent collaboration, Why animals can outrun robots, discusses why biology outperforms engineering in all aspects of movement.

SFU molecular biology and biochemistry professor Ryan Morin uses cutting-edge molecular and computational methods to study the genetic architecture of cancer. 

For a recent study led by SFU postdoctoral fellow Kostiantyn Dreval, researchers at the Morin Lab used machine learning to identify two genetically distinct subgroups of patients. This important finding can help better predict the risk and progression of malignancy using genetic testing.