SFU experts available for back-to-school season

As students embark next week on a new academic year, faculty at Simon Fraser University are available to share their expertise on various related topics:
 

AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS

ISSUES IN EDUCATION

DAN LAITSCH, professor, Dean, Faculty of Education  
dlaitsch@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Educational policy, social foundations of education, policy formation

TRAVERS, professor, sociology and anthropology  
atravers@sfu.ca
Expertise: LGBT children and youth, SOGI policies in schools, transgender kinds and gender affirming healthcare, transgender people and sport participation, urban and suburban transportation policy

STEVE DIPAOLA, professor, School of Interactive Arts & Technology  
sdipaola@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI ethics, AI for social good, AI bots and character agents, AI and art, digital fine art, virtual reality and augmented reality, digital art

ALISSA ANTLE, professor, School of Interactive Arts & Technology  
aantle@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Child computer interaction, interaction design for children, co-design with children, interactive technologies for children, children’s media, children’s digital mental health

ANDREY PAVLOV, professor, finance 
apavlov@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Housing shortages and affordability challenges in the rental housing market for students, cost of living, inflation and how those create additional pressures on families

TAMMARA SOMA, associate professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management (Planning); research director, Food Systems Lab  
tammara_soma@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Food system planning, healthy food in schools including a project with partners at Farm to School BC and the Coalition for Healthy School Food. Recently finished an international field school in Tanzania where students worked to support and learn more about a school food garden initiative led by the Maasai community

NEHA SHIVHARE, instructor, executive leadership, Continuing Studies  
nshivhar@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Using neuroscience-based techniques and mindfulness as a tool to deal with back-to-school anxiety

STUART POYNTZ, professor, director, School of Communication  
spoyntz@sfu.ca  
Expertise: Teenagers in informal learning spaces and art institutes, children’s media cultures, social care and urban youth cultures


NEW PROGRAMS AND CLASSES AT SFU

ARNE EIGENFELDT, professor, contemporary arts, Associate Dean, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
arne_e@sfu.ca
Expertise: New interdisciplinary Certificate in Sound consisting of courses in sound in each of FCAT’s three schools.

NICHOLAS BLOMLEY, professor, geography
blomley@sfu.ca
Expertise: New collaborative Bachelor of Arts in Urban Worlds between the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Environment, addressing the growing need to tackle the world’s urban issues and improve upon its possibilities

MEI FANG, assistant professor, urban studies
mei_fang@sfu.ca
Expertise: New collaborative Bachelor of Arts in Urban Worlds between the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Environment, addressing the growing need to tackle the world’s urban issues and improve upon its possibilities

GOPOLANG MOHLABENG, assistant professor, physics
gmohlabe@sfu.ca
Expertise: The mysteries of the dark universe, Mohlabeng gives the first in a series of SFU’s free, public Café Scientifique presentations on the topic September 24

SAMI KHAN, assistant professor, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering
s_khan@sfu.ca
Expertise: Taught SEE 893 "Advanced Carbon Capture Engineering" as a new addition to the graduate curriculum and an expanded undergraduate version of the course. Students designed innovative carbon capture facilities – harnessing beetle-infested trees from Quesnel, B.C. as a sustainable biomass input for a gasification process, followed by CO2 capture and transportation to a urea production facility to utilize the captured CO2

ANDREA REIMER, instructor, dialogue and civic engagement
andrea.reimer@citizenandrea.ca
Expertise: Teaching climate justice, climate leadership, building community resilience and developing environmental solutions. Climate Action Certificate (Continuing Studies) returns for its second year

CONTACT

MATT KIELTYKA, SFU Communications & Marketing 
236.880.2187 | matt_kieltyka@sfu.ca

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