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Enactus SFU teams demonstrate innovation and impact at Canada Western Regional Exposition

Apr 10, 2024

Enactus SFU teams showcased their impact at the Enactus Canada Western Regional Exposition, a competition where teams present the results of applied community impact projects and business ventures to a judging panel. This year’s exposition took place March 14-15 in Calgary with 15 additional post-secondary institutions competing. As a global network of chapters in 33 countries, Enactus provides an experiential learning opportunity for young people to use innovation and entrepreneurship to solve the world’s most […]

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SFU Beedie professor June Francis selected to chair B.C.’s new anti-racism data committee

Oct 3, 2022

June Francis, professor of marketing at SFU’s Beedie School of Business, has been selected to lead B.C.’s new anti-racism data committee, signalling another major stride in her efforts to advocate for anti-racism in British Columbia and make the province a more inclusive place. Out of 160 applicants to join the committee, 11 were selected, with Francis appointed chair of the committee. “We’ve selected 11 members who will help us identify how we can improve government […]

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SFU Beedie professor June Francis at heart of city’s redevelopment plan for Hogan’s Alley

Sep 21, 2022

A new city project hopes to reclaim some of the hope that was lost when city planning in the early 70s led to the displacement and erasure of Hogan’s Alley, Vancouver’s historic Black neighbourhood. The City of Vancouver has signed a historic agreement with the Hogan’s Alley Society to become home to new apartments and a potential cultural centre. At the heart of this project is June Francis, co-chair of the Hogan’s Alley Society and […]

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SFU Beedie prof leads the way in revitalization project for a once vibrant Vancouver neighbourhood

May 6, 2019

Hogan’s Alley Society, an initiative co-chaired by SFU Beedie professor June Francis, is working with the City of Vancouver, PHS Community Services Society and B.C. Housing to help bring a temporary housing project with culturally relevant programming to a once vibrant neighbourhood in Vancouver. For decades starting in the 1920’s, in what was then known as Hogan’s Alley, centered between Prior and Union and Main and Jackson, was a cultural hub for Vancouver’s Black community. […]

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Opportunity Fest 2015 to showcase interdisciplinary innovation

Mar 6, 2015

Students from across Simon Fraser University will step under the spotlight to demonstrate their talents as entrepreneurs and innovators at the fifth annual Opportunity Fest.

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