Faculty and Staff

From SEE News: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors worldwide have faced the challenge of translating their course materials for online learning. The unexpected circumstances are particularly difficult for courses that require a lab component as a part of their curriculum – SFU’s SEE 342 was no exception.

Staff and faculty are invited to share their input to help inform future institutional anti-racism policies.

From SIAT News: SIAT associate professor Dr. Sylvain Moreno has recently been named Digital Health CEO of the Year by CEO Monthly magazine.

From Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies: Congratulations to Dr. Jen Marchbank, who was recently honoured with a YWCA Women of Distinction Award!

From SFU News: WearTech Labs, a new core facility hosted at Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Surrey campus, has received $1.8 million in federal funding from the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada (PacifiCan) to help invent, test and create wearable technology that improves the quality of our lives.

From SFU News: Meet SFU’s superstar scheduling team! Despite the confusion caused by the global pandemic, schedulers from across the university made sure SFU’s return to campus was relatively smooth for students.

SFU’s vision to be Canada’s engaged university was established in 2013. That vision has taken us far, but as we return to campus after two years of learning and working remotely, President Joy Johnson asks: SFU, what’s next?

From SIAT News: The audiovisual project titled "Body as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection" conjoins artificial intelligence, poetry, ecology, and the human body.

From SFU News: SFU health sciences professor Meghan Winters is partnering with the City of Surrey to advance health equity in B.C.’s fastest growing city. Newly named to a $1.15 million Applied Public Health Chair in the area of Sex, Gender and Healthy Cities, Winters and her collaborators are developing ways to integrate health equity considerations into the city’s urban planning and population health interventions.

Your generous support of this event will go towards the United Way, BC Flood Relief, and BC SPCA.

Steve Dooley is the inaugural recipient of the Canada India Network Society (CINS)-Drishti Award for building Canada-India links.

Here we grow again! We’re thrilled to announce some recent promotions in Facilities at the Surrey campus.

In case you missed it: highlights and announcements from the Fall 2021 campus-wide meeting on October 29.

With the return to campus, new crew members have joined the Facilities Services team at SFU Surrey.

From SFU News: With many staff and faculty returning to SFU campuses after almost two years of mostly working and teaching remotely, SFU launched a ‘bring a friend to coffee’ initiative to help employees connect socially again.

From SFU News: SFU professor Sami Khan is determined to find a solution to the ongoing climate crisis by combining his expertise in chemical engineering with his passions for sustainability and public policy.

From SFU News: Janice OBriain, Director of Coast Capital Savings Venture Connection and Programs Director, Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship, has won the 2020 SFU Staff Achievement Award for Innovation.

From SFU News: SFU's Human Resources team recently hosted a workshop on anti-racism and allyship in the workplace. We talked to three workshop participants about what they learned and how they plan to practice anti-racism at work.

From SFU News: A new national research and training program will help to jumpstart the development of greener and more resilient energy grids—the networks that deliver our power— while increasing skills critical to advancing our sustainable energy future.

From SFU News: As part of the People of SFU series, meet Trisha Dulku volunteer wrangler extraordinaire and coordinator of civic and community engagement.

A national team of researchers led by SFU professor Behraad Bahreyni will design the tools needed to collect unprecedented new details about the moon’s surface, as part of the Canadian Space Agency’s plans for lunar exploration, announced on May 26.

From SFU News: SIAT's Chantal Gibson is among the recipients of the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

From SFU News: A virtual pilot study to investigate how music therapy can improve the mental health of healthcare workers has been launched by Simon Fraser University and Music Heals.

From SFU News: Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future.

Join us on February 25 for our very first Book Chat! Our theme for February is Black History Month.

From SFU News: As we start the Spring 2021 semester, here are some safety tips for all of us to take into consideration so that we can all protect against COVID-19.

From SFU News: Air maintenance crews can soon check their engines virtually thanks to a new research collaboration between SFU and the National Research Council of Canada.

From SFU News: SFU researchers Steve DiPaola and Jeremy Turner are using a new, open source virtual reality platform to experiment with advanced and cutting-edge VR techniques and create a virtual classroom for their students.

From SFU News: Advanced virtual training simulations are being created by an international tech team based in Vancouver to train healthcare workers on the correct application of personal protective equipment (PPE) in long-term care facilities.

From SFU News: MSE professor Woo Soo Kim is developing a portable ventilator in answer to the potential need for future resources as the fight against COVID-19 continues.

From SIAT News: Dr. Diana Gromala has been honoured with the title of Distinguished SFU Professor along with six other leading academic scholars.