I am very pleased to announce that the Board of Governors has
approved the appointment of Dr. John O'Neil as Dean, Faculty of
Health Sciences, for a period of five years commencing August 1,
2007. Dr. O'Neil is a medical anthropologist who is currently Head
of the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Faculty of
Medicine at the University of Manitoba. I believe SFU's Faculty of
Health Sciences will be well served by his impressive background in
First Nations health, international programming and in the
application of anthropological research methods to the study of
infectious diseases such as HIV Aids.
I look forward to working with Dr. John O'Neil once he joins the
University community later this summer.
Sincerely,
Dr. John Waterhouse
Vice-President, Academic and Provost
Grad Caucus | Information for Biology graduate students at Simon Fraser University.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Dafur Talk tomorrow (Thurs Mar 29)
Michael Stevenson, will moderate a
talk entitled “The Real Situation in Darfur: What Can Canada and Canadians
Do?” on March 29 from 3:30-5:30 at SFU Burnaby. The talk is part of the 2nd
annul SFU Humanitarian Fair which will run from the 28-29 of March in the
AQ. The fair provides an avenue for SFU student and campus groups with
humanitarian mandates to promote their work to the SFU community.
The fair is focusing on the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Western Sudan.
Organizers of the week, Canadian Students for Darfur, will host a fundraiser
on March 30th with Burnaby-Douglas MP, Bill Siksay as the guest of honor.
The student group has now collected $14,000 for Oxfam’s work in Darfur and
hopes to collect more.
CSFDarfur invites members of the public to the Darfur talk featuring the
speakers listed below.
What: The Real Situation in Darfur: What Can Canada and Canadians Do?
Moderator: Dr. Michael Stevenson, President, Simon Fraser University
Speakers: Miriam Palacios, Oxfam Canada's Vancouver office.
Ahmed Amit, from Darfur and President of Sudan-Canada Association
Bill Cunningham, Burnaby-Douglas Liberal Candidate
Rev. Susan Kerr, Youth for Humanity International
Where: SFU Burnaby, MBC 2295-6, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6
When: 3:30-5pm Thursday, March 29, 2007
Sponsored by the Simon Fraser Student Society.
For more information and media interviews contact:
Clement Apaak (778) 895-9242
talk entitled “The Real Situation in Darfur: What Can Canada and Canadians
Do?” on March 29 from 3:30-5:30 at SFU Burnaby. The talk is part of the 2nd
annul SFU Humanitarian Fair which will run from the 28-29 of March in the
AQ. The fair provides an avenue for SFU student and campus groups with
humanitarian mandates to promote their work to the SFU community.
The fair is focusing on the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Western Sudan.
Organizers of the week, Canadian Students for Darfur, will host a fundraiser
on March 30th with Burnaby-Douglas MP, Bill Siksay as the guest of honor.
The student group has now collected $14,000 for Oxfam’s work in Darfur and
hopes to collect more.
CSFDarfur invites members of the public to the Darfur talk featuring the
speakers listed below.
What: The Real Situation in Darfur: What Can Canada and Canadians Do?
Moderator: Dr. Michael Stevenson, President, Simon Fraser University
Speakers: Miriam Palacios, Oxfam Canada's Vancouver office.
Ahmed Amit, from Darfur and President of Sudan-Canada Association
Bill Cunningham, Burnaby-Douglas Liberal Candidate
Rev. Susan Kerr, Youth for Humanity International
Where: SFU Burnaby, MBC 2295-6, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6
When: 3:30-5pm Thursday, March 29, 2007
Sponsored by the Simon Fraser Student Society.
For more information and media interviews contact:
Clement Apaak (778) 895-9242
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Climate Change Presentation: Some Inconvenient Truths
Thursday Mar 29, 2007 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: RCB 8100
Join Andrea Reimer (Executive Director of The Wilderness Committee) for a compelling and insightful look at the facts behind global warming and how we can all take action. Brought to you by SFPIRG's newest group on campus, the Climate Change Action Group.
Tuesday March 29, 3:00 pm, RCB 8100, right off the northwest corner of the AQ.
Andrea Reimer joined the Wilderness Committee in 1992 and over the years has worked in every department within the organization, making her a natural choice for the role of executive director when the position opened up in January of 2002. Andrea has a diverse background in community development, social justice and the environmental movement, and is a passionate grassroots organizer. Andrea has recently received training from Al Gore about how to deliver his presentation about global warming, featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. She now shares that message as often as possible.
SFPIRG's Climate Change Action Group was formed in the spring of 2007. Our work focuses on raising awareness and involvement around the issue of global warming within the SFU community, and bringing about change on campus. We're also striving to build connections with off-campus organizations that have similar goals, to imbed SFU within a network of organizations that push for action on global warming. We always welcome new members, so feel free to come out, get informed, and get involved! climatechange@sfpirg.ca
Join Andrea Reimer (Executive Director of The Wilderness Committee) for a compelling and insightful look at the facts behind global warming and how we can all take action. Brought to you by SFPIRG's newest group on campus, the Climate Change Action Group.
Tuesday March 29, 3:00 pm, RCB 8100, right off the northwest corner of the AQ.
Andrea Reimer joined the Wilderness Committee in 1992 and over the years has worked in every department within the organization, making her a natural choice for the role of executive director when the position opened up in January of 2002. Andrea has a diverse background in community development, social justice and the environmental movement, and is a passionate grassroots organizer. Andrea has recently received training from Al Gore about how to deliver his presentation about global warming, featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. She now shares that message as often as possible.
SFPIRG's Climate Change Action Group was formed in the spring of 2007. Our work focuses on raising awareness and involvement around the issue of global warming within the SFU community, and bringing about change on campus. We're also striving to build connections with off-campus organizations that have similar goals, to imbed SFU within a network of organizations that push for action on global warming. We always welcome new members, so feel free to come out, get informed, and get involved! climatechange@sfpirg.ca
One World Pubnight (mar 23)
Hey guys, it's almost time for the finals. Time to unwind a little...at the One World Pubnight!
Enjoy International Musics and Dance to the Rythms of DJ Apaak | Make New Friends and Get to Know More About the ISG | Win Door Prizes | Blow off Some Steam Before Your Finals!!
When? Friday March 23 8:00PM - 12:30AM
Where? SFSS Highland Pub
How much? $2 cover only!
For more information, please contact intl-exec@sfu.ca or visit our website at www.sfu.ca/~isgroup
Surrey Forum: Chinese Religions in British Columbia (Mar 24)
SFU Seniors Saturday Forums Hosted by the SFU Seniors Lifelong Learners Society
Saturday March 24, 1 pm
SFU Surrey, at Central City
Chinese Religions In British Columbia
Host: Professor Paul Crowe, Department of Humanities
A look at some of the approaches Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religious groups are taking to maintain their traditions while relating to members of broader Canadian society.
Free and open to people of all ages. No reservations required.
For more information:
http://www.sfu.ca/seniors/forums.htm
or call 604-291-5212.
Thank you,
Anna Kalfa, Program Assistant
Seniors Program
Centre for Integrated and Credit Studies
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Saturday March 24, 1 pm
SFU Surrey, at Central City
Chinese Religions In British Columbia
Host: Professor Paul Crowe, Department of Humanities
A look at some of the approaches Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religious groups are taking to maintain their traditions while relating to members of broader Canadian society.
Free and open to people of all ages. No reservations required.
For more information:
http://www.sfu.ca/seniors/forums.htm
or call 604-291-5212.
Thank you,
Anna Kalfa, Program Assistant
Seniors Program
Centre for Integrated and Credit Studies
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Post-Impeachment Working Group
The Working Group that has been tasked with reporting last year's events, the SGM and the Impeachment will be having its first meeting this thursday at 4:00pm. I am tentatively scheduling the meeting in the board office (MBC 2250), unless the amount of RSVPs warrants a larger room. If you wish to attend this meeting please rsvp to joseph_paling@sfu.ca
Here's the deal: the working group is tasked with putting a report together. It will be chaired by someone elected by the group, the chair will be tasked with doing the edit of the report and will be paid an honorarium of $400 upon completion. The chair will also be expected to divide this honorarium up if the other participants provide much work on the report.
Those who contribute to the report may be able to use it for course and resume credit, and will gain some valuable research experience. This will be a fun project, and will be a way for students to use their research skills for something locally relevant! Students in the History, Sociology, Political Science and Communications disciplines are especially encouraged to participate, but all are welcome and encouraged to be involved.
For more information please check out:
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2007-1/issue10/ne-impeach.html
or email me at joseph_paling@sfu.ca
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Thanks everyone, I hope to see some of you this thursday,
Joe Paling
Your At-Large Director
Here's the deal: the working group is tasked with putting a report together. It will be chaired by someone elected by the group, the chair will be tasked with doing the edit of the report and will be paid an honorarium of $400 upon completion. The chair will also be expected to divide this honorarium up if the other participants provide much work on the report.
Those who contribute to the report may be able to use it for course and resume credit, and will gain some valuable research experience. This will be a fun project, and will be a way for students to use their research skills for something locally relevant! Students in the History, Sociology, Political Science and Communications disciplines are especially encouraged to participate, but all are welcome and encouraged to be involved.
For more information please check out:
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2007-1/issue10/ne-impeach.html
or email me at joseph_paling@sfu.ca
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Thanks everyone, I hope to see some of you this thursday,
Joe Paling
Your At-Large Director
Lecture: Junaid S. Ahmad -- Prophetic Religion and Solidarity (Apr 1)
Hosted by The Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements and the J. S. Woodsworth Lecture Series at SFU
Sunday, April 1, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1800
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
3:30 p.m.- 5: 00 p.m.
Reserved seating is recommended: call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
Junaid S. Ahmad is a JD candidate in law at the College of William and Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, VA. He is on the Executive Board of the Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). For the past few years, he has worked with the National Interfaith Committee on Worker Justice - building alliances with some of the leading religious figures - of all faith backgrounds - who are working on issues of worker and social justice. He has presented on this theme of interfaith solidarity for worker justice at the previous two annual meetings of the largest gathering of Muslims in North America, the Islamic Society of North America convention. In addition, he has worked as a labor organizer in Washington , DC , on two principal campaigns, the "Justice for Janitors" campaign and the Hotel and Restaurant Workers campaign, as part of the national organization, Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He has been active in campus and community living wage campaigns, and is at present part of the Williamsburg, VA-based group, Tidewater Labor Support Committee (TLSC), a group advancing the rights of workers on the campus of the College of William and Mary.
Junaid is an editor of the Richmond Independent Media Centre. He has been a longtime activist on issues related to corporate-led globalization, HIV/AIDS and gender justice, and militarism and war, working in organizations such as Amnesty International and the Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ). He writes for webzines (such as ZNet, Counterpunch, Hot Coals, Left Hook, etc) and has written for magazines and journals such as Left Turn, Chowrangi (progressive Pakistani-American magazine), Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Studies in Contemporary Islam, and Islamic Studies. In Pakistan, he has worked with groups such as Educate Pakistan and the Peoples Rights Movement, the latter being at the forefront of issues related to social and economic justice in Pakistan. He continues to maintain an association with Positive Muslims, the Cape Town-based organization working on issues related to Muslims, HIV/AIDS, and gender justice, a group with which he worked while he was in South Africa in 2004.
He is currently involved in a collaborative project with the International Islamic University, Islamabad, on developing an annual "State of the Muslim World" report. Most recently, he, along with other Muslims, has formed the Abu Dharr Collective, which is committed to the ideal of social justice and to articulating an Islamic theology of liberation.
Junaid Ahmad's visit to Vancouver is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the SFU Economic Security Project.
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Trish Graham
Institute for the Humanities
Sunday, April 1, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1800
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
3:30 p.m.- 5: 00 p.m.
Reserved seating is recommended: call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
Junaid S. Ahmad is a JD candidate in law at the College of William and Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, VA. He is on the Executive Board of the Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). For the past few years, he has worked with the National Interfaith Committee on Worker Justice - building alliances with some of the leading religious figures - of all faith backgrounds - who are working on issues of worker and social justice. He has presented on this theme of interfaith solidarity for worker justice at the previous two annual meetings of the largest gathering of Muslims in North America, the Islamic Society of North America convention. In addition, he has worked as a labor organizer in Washington , DC , on two principal campaigns, the "Justice for Janitors" campaign and the Hotel and Restaurant Workers campaign, as part of the national organization, Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He has been active in campus and community living wage campaigns, and is at present part of the Williamsburg, VA-based group, Tidewater Labor Support Committee (TLSC), a group advancing the rights of workers on the campus of the College of William and Mary.
Junaid is an editor of the Richmond Independent Media Centre. He has been a longtime activist on issues related to corporate-led globalization, HIV/AIDS and gender justice, and militarism and war, working in organizations such as Amnesty International and the Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ). He writes for webzines (such as ZNet, Counterpunch, Hot Coals, Left Hook, etc) and has written for magazines and journals such as Left Turn, Chowrangi (progressive Pakistani-American magazine), Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Studies in Contemporary Islam, and Islamic Studies. In Pakistan, he has worked with groups such as Educate Pakistan and the Peoples Rights Movement, the latter being at the forefront of issues related to social and economic justice in Pakistan. He continues to maintain an association with Positive Muslims, the Cape Town-based organization working on issues related to Muslims, HIV/AIDS, and gender justice, a group with which he worked while he was in South Africa in 2004.
He is currently involved in a collaborative project with the International Islamic University, Islamabad, on developing an annual "State of the Muslim World" report. Most recently, he, along with other Muslims, has formed the Abu Dharr Collective, which is committed to the ideal of social justice and to articulating an Islamic theology of liberation.
Junaid Ahmad's visit to Vancouver is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the SFU Economic Security Project.
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Trish Graham
Institute for the Humanities
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