Research

From FAS News: With an aim for a more sustainable future, SEE students are working with CityStudio and the City of Vancouver to electrify the Stanley Park Train.

From SFU News: A Q&A with SIAT's Sylvain Moreno, chief executive officer and scientific director for the new B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation, to discuss what impacts it will make and how it will support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to scale-up and commercialize agritech in the region.

From SFU News: A new B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation—to be housed at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus—will further position British Columbia as a world leader in agriculture technology (agritech) by improving food security—locally and globally—while creating hundreds of new jobs.

From SFU News: New digital tools developed and tested at Simon Fraser University have the potential to revolutionize wilderness search and rescue efforts.

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: Advances in technology that will help grow B.C.’s agriculture sector and produce ‘wearable’ healthcare solutions will be possible through federal funding for two new Simon Fraser University initiatives.

From SFU News: A Simon Fraser University researcher has received nearly $1 million for a unique study exploring the circuit function of the brain, specifically the differences seen in autism.

From SFU News: Empowering small, humanoid-sensing robots to take a patient’s blood pressure—using only a simple touch—is Simon Fraser University researcher Woo Soo Kim’s latest health care technology development.

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.

From SFU News: Researchers in Simon Fraser University’s Additive Manufacturing Lab are replicating a distinctive artform—the subtle folding of origami—to create 3D printable technologies to aid in the fight against COVID-19, and help doctors to identify and diagnose various health conditions.

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: The Quantum Algorithms Institute, hosted at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus, will benefit from $2,210,000 million in federal funding from Western Economic Diversification Canada.

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.

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: 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.

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 PhD students in SIAT create and launch Body RemiXer, a free online, immersive virtual reality installation that transforms participants into virtual ethereal auras.

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 FAS News: With COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic in March, faculty members and students from SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering (MSE) felt a need to act and help meet the high demand for medical devices and personal protective equipment (PPE).