FASS@SFU e-Newsletter

April 2012

Welcome to the April edition of FASS@SFU, your guide to news and events in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. If you’re not already receiving this newsletter directly and would like to be added to the distribution list, please email FassComm@sfu.ca. Don’t forget to check out FASS on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SFUFASS. We’re also on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SFUfass.

FASS News

First Nations Studies

The First Nations Studies program at Simon Fraser University has been granted department status effective April 1, 2012.

Read more here. Photos of the celebration here.

New Certificate in Liberal Arts Requirements

Starting in May 2012, new completion requirements will come into effect for the Certificate in Liberal Arts (CLA). Students (in any Faculty) will complete the same number of courses and units as before for this popular certificate, but with greater ease in choosing the courses (fewer sets, less guesswork). More information is available on our advising web site here.

FASS Research

National Aging Study Begins at SFU Surrey

A new lab at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus will play a key role beginning this spring in an exhaustive study of aging in Canada.

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), the most comprehensive study of its kind in Canada, will follow 50,000 Canadians over the next 20 years, including 8,500 men and women in B.C. – 1,500 of them, within a 25 km radius of SFU Surrey.

Read more here.

Around FASS

Yes, We Speak German

Students Maggie Chow, Katie Hearn, Whitney Szabo, Alannah St. Pierre, Sarah Brett, Lena Brockhoff and Michael Poon

In a Canadian first, seven SFU students who have studied German for five semesters through SFU’s Language Training Institute (LTI) all passed the Zertifikat Deutsch, an internationally recognized exam of German language ability.

Read more here.

FASS IT

New Internal Speech Directory

The Network Services team of IT Services put the finishing touches on a new internal speech directory, ASKME. “What’s an internal speech directory?” you ask.

Read more here.

FASS in the Community

FASS Alumnus Derek Milloy Honoured at Concert for Caregiving

One of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band’s most stalwart pipers was honoured for receiving a national caregiver award during the band’s 30th anniversary concert in Vancouver on April 15.

Derek Milloy, who has competed with the band at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow 23 times, has been recognized by the Canadian MS Society with the Opal Award for Caregiver.

Read more here.

SFU Open House

FASS People in the Media

Murray Munro, Linguistics, in Time, How To Speak Like A Native.
André Gerolymatos, Hellenic Studies, on News 1130 after bomb-threat caused a Korea-bound airliner to land at Comox BC.
Doug McArthur, Public Policy, in NewWestminster NewsLeader, on proposal to twin pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby.