Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, maintaining three campuses in Greater Vancouver, at Burnaby (the main campus on top of Burnaby Mountain), at Surrey in Central City and across downtown Vancouver.西蒙弗雷泽大学(Simon Fraser University,简称SFU)是加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的一所公立研究型大学,在大温哥华地区设有三个校区:本拿比主校区(坐落于本拿比山顶)、位于素里中央城的素里校区,以及散布于温哥华市中心的温哥华校区。
The university was created after John B. Macdonald's 1962 report Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future recommended a new university in the Lower Mainland, the British Columbia Legislature gave formal assent on March 1, 1963, and SFU opened on September 9, 1965 with 2,500 students.学校的设立源自John B. Macdonald于1962年发布的《不列颠哥伦比亚的高等教育与未来规划》报告,该报告建议在低陆平原新建一所大学,不列颠哥伦比亚省议会于1963年3月1日正式批准设校,1965年9月9日西蒙弗雷泽大学以2500名学生开学。
SFU is placed 312th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, runs undergraduate and graduate programs on a year-round three-term schedule, and in 2025 became the first university in Canada to adopt university-wide open scholarship principles.西蒙弗雷泽大学在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第312名,本科与研究生课程均按全年三学期制运转,并于2025年成为加拿大首所在全校层面采纳开放学术原则的大学。
History
- The idea of a new university grew out of the 1962 report Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future by educator John B. Macdonald, who recommended a second institution for the largely unserved Lower Mainland.创办新大学的构想源于教育家John B. Macdonald于1962年发布的《不列颠哥伦比亚的高等教育与未来规划》报告,他建议为几乎无高校覆盖的低陆平原增设一所大学。
- The British Columbia Legislature gave formal assent on March 1, 1963 to establish the university in Burnaby, and the new institution was named after Simon Fraser, the North West Company fur trader and explorer who charted the Fraser River region.不列颠哥伦比亚省议会于1963年3月1日正式批准在本拿比设立这所大学,新校以曾勘察弗雷泽河流域的西北公司毛皮贸易商兼探险家西蒙·弗雷泽命名。
- In May 1963 Gordon M. Shrum was appointed the university's first chancellor, taking office on January 1, 1964, and he held the post until May 31, 1968.1963年5月,Gordon M. Shrum被任命为首任校监,并于1964年1月1日就职,校监任期至1968年5月31日结束。
- From the sites that were offered, Chancellor Shrum recommended the summit of Burnaby Mountain, 365 metres above sea level, and the provincial government accepted the recommendation.在各方提供的备选地块中,Shrum校监推荐了海拔365米的本拿比山顶,省政府采纳了这一建议。
- Architects Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey won the competition to design the university, construction began in the spring of 1964, and the campus faces northwest over the Burrard Inlet.建筑师Arthur Erickson与Geoffrey Massey赢得校园设计竞赛,工程于1964年春动工,校园朝向西北俯瞰布拉德内湾。
- On September 9, 1965 the university began its first semester on Burnaby Mountain with 2,500 students, and the Academic Quadrangle stood as the centre of the young campus.1965年9月9日,大学在本拿比山迎来首个学期,入学学生2500名,学术方庭(Academic Quadrangle)成为这座年轻校园的核心。
- SFU was created during the premiership of W. A. C. Bennett, leader of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia, and the main library on the Burnaby campus still bears his name.西蒙弗雷泽大学在不列颠哥伦比亚社信党领袖W. A. C. Bennett任省长期间创立,本拿比主校区的中心图书馆至今以其姓名命名。
- In May 1967 SFU became the first university in Canada to seat students on its board of governors, part of a campaign for democratic university governance led by activist students.1967年5月,SFU成为加拿大第一所让学生进入理事会的大学,这是学生激进分子推动大学治理民主化运动的一部分。
- In 1968 SFU became the first Canadian university to offer an executive MBA for working managers, and in 1991 it was again first among Canadian universities to offer a master's programme in sociology.1968年,SFU成为加拿大第一所为在职经理人员开设EMBA课程的大学,1991年又成为加拿大最早提供社会学硕士课程的高校。
- The campus acquired a reputation in the 1960s and early 1970s as a hotbed of political activism, and sit-ins and disputes over sensitive teaching topics unsettled the young institution in its first years.1960年代至1970年代初,校园以政治激进主义的温床著称,静坐抗议与围绕敏感教学话题的争论在建校初期曾令学校动荡不安。
- The activism culminated in a crisis in the Department of Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology over ideological differences among faculty, and the settlement dismantled the merged department into today's separate departments.激进思潮最终酿成政治学、社会学与人类学系的危机,教职员之间的意识形态分歧以合并学科拆分、设立如今各自独立学系的方式收场。
- In those same years, Thelma Finlayson became the university's first female faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences and, on retiring in 1979, its first professor emerita.正是在那些年,Thelma Finlayson进入生物科学系成为学校首位女性教职员,并于1979年退休后成为首位名誉退休女教授。
- In 2002 the Surrey campus opened to absorb the students and programmes of the Technical University of British Columbia, which the provincial government had closed.2002年,素里校区开办,接收被省政府关闭的卑诗科技大学的学生与学科。
- In March 2006 the senate approved an affiliation agreement with a private college housed adjacent to the Burnaby campus, and Fraser International College began taking international students into pathways onto the university.2006年3月,校务评议会通过在本拿比校园旁设立私立学院的协定,菲莎国际学院自此招收国际学生并对接大学本科课程。
- In 2007 the Board of Governors voted to adapt the original coat of arms, replacing two crosslets with open books, and in 2007 the revised arms were registered together with a white-on-block-red marketing logo.2007年,理事会表决通过修改建校以来的纹章,以两册打开的书取代原来的十字小饰件,修改后的纹章与白字红色块的新标识同年注册。
- Beginning in 2007, SFU launched dual and double degrees with partner universities, including a dual computing-science degree with Zhejiang University in China and a double Bachelor of Arts degree with Monash University in Australia, and it also partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.自2007年起,SFU陆续与伙伴大学开设双学位与联合学位项目,包括与中国浙江大学合办的计算机科学双学位、与澳大利亚蒙纳士大学合办的文学学士双学位,并与印度理工学院孟买分校建立合作。
- On July 10, 2009 the NCAA announced it had accepted SFU as a Division II member, the first Canadian university admitted at any level, with competition in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference from the 2011-2012 season and full membership in 2012.2009年7月10日,NCAA宣布接纳SFU为第二级别会员,使其成为首所加入NCAA的加拿大大学,2011至2012赛季起参加西北大区体育联盟(GNAC)赛事,2012年转为正式会员。
- On September 9, 2015 SFU celebrated its 50th anniversary, by which time the university had educated more than 130,000 graduates, and in the same year it became the second Canadian university accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.2015年9月9日,SFU迎来50周年校庆,此时大学已培养逾13万名毕业生,同年它还成为第二所获得美国西北大学学院与大学协会(NWCCU)认证的加拿大大学。
- A February 2020 ransomware breach exposed records of 250,000 students, a second cyberattack in February 2021 exposed about 200,000 records of students, staff and alumni, and a class action lawsuit was filed in March 2021.2020年2月,勒索软件攻击泄露25万名学生的记录,2021年2月的第二次网络攻击又泄露约20万条学生、教职员与校友信息,2021年3月针对学校的集体诉讼被提起。
- In early 2022 Burnaby City Council officially supported the SFU gondola as part of the TransLink expansion under the regional Transport 2050 strategy.2022年初,本拿比市议会正式支持作为TransLink扩建项目一部分的SFU空中缆车,该项目纳入区域交通2050战略。
- In early 2025 the School of Interactive Arts and Technology debuted a Virtual Ambassador Program of animated avatars, hailed as the world's first official university VTubers.2025年初,互动艺术与技术学院推出虚拟形象大使项目,被称赞为全球首批正式的大学VTuber。
- In 2025 SFU became the first university in Canada to adopt university-wide open scholarship principles, completing six decades from a radical new campus to a leader in open research culture.2025年,SFU成为加拿大首所在全校范围采纳开放学术原则的大学,完成了从六十年前激进的新校园到开放研究文化引领者的转变。
Academics
- SFU organises its teaching in ten faculties: Applied Science, Arts and Social Sciences, the Beedie School of Business, Communication Art and Technology, Education, Environment, Graduate Studies, Health Sciences, Science, and the Stephens Family School of Medicine.学校教学由十大学院构成:应用科学学院、文学与社会科学学院、比迪商学院、传理艺术与技术学院、教育学院、环境学院、研究生院、健康科学院、理学院,以及斯蒂芬斯家庭医学院。
- In the Fall 2021 semester SFU enrolled 25,595 undergraduates, of whom 12,812 studied full-time and 12,783 part-time, and 4,701 graduate students, while headcount figures for Fall 2022 stood at 25,690 undergraduates and 4,690 graduate students.2021年秋季学期,SFU注册本科生25,595名,其中全日制12,812人、非全日制12,783人,研究生4,701名,按2022年秋季口径则分别为本科生25,690人与研究生4,690人。
- International students made up 21 per cent of undergraduates in Fall 2021, with over 85 per cent of them from Asia and the largest group, 43 per cent, from China, while international students formed 32 per cent of the graduate population.2021年秋季,国际学生占本科生总数的21%,其中逾85%来自亚洲,中国学生以43%居首,研究生阶段国际学生占比为32%。
- All degree programmes operate on a year-round three-term schedule with terms beginning in September, January and May, a calendar paired with one of Canada's largest work-term co-operative education programmes.全部学位课程按全年三学期制运转,学期分别始于9月、1月与5月,这一学制与加拿大规模最大的带薪实习教育项目之一相配合。
- Continuing Studies offered more than 300 courses and 27 certificate and diploma programmes as of 2016, mostly online or part-time at the Vancouver and Surrey campuses, alongside the SFU NOW degree-completion programme for working adults.继续教育学院截至2016年提供逾300门课程与27个证书及文凭课程,多在线上或以非全日制形式在温哥华与素里校区授课,另设面向在职人士的SFU NOW学位完成项目。
- SFU received sponsored research income of C167.256 million from external sources in 2020, the 17th highest in Canada, with faculty averaging C188,600 and graduate students C$34,000 each.2020年SFU从外部来源获得科研资助1.67256亿加元,居加拿大第17位,教职员人均科研资助18.86万加元,研究生人均3.4万加元。
- In 2008 SFU recorded the highest publication impact among Canadian comprehensive universities and the highest per-faculty success rates in competitions for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funding.2008年,SFU在加拿大综合类大学中论文影响力最高,且教职员人均中标加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会与社会科学与人文研究理事会资助项目比率居首。
- SFU co-operates TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics near Vancouver, which houses the world's largest cyclotron.SFU参与运营位于温哥华附近的TRIUMF加拿大粒子与核物理国家实验室,实验室内拥有全球最大的回旋加速器。
- The Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on Vancouver Island, run jointly with other universities, is a major field station for teaching and research in marine biology.与多所大学合办的班菲尔德海洋科学中心位于温哥华岛,是海洋生物学教学与研究的重要野外实验站。
- The national field centre of MITACS, the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems network linking universities with industry, is headquartered at SFU, and the university is a partner in Great Northern Way Campus Ltd in Vancouver.联结大学与企业的“信息技术与复杂系统数学”国家卓越网络中心(MITACS)总部设在SFU,学校还是温哥华大北路校园公司的合作伙伴。
- In 2022 SFU created the cross-disciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology research hub to connect neuroscience work across the university, and the MODAL Research Group partners with Canadian universities and arts organisations on artistic learning and engagement.2022年,SFU创建跨学科的神经科学与神经技术研究院,整合全校神经科学相关研究,MODAL研究组则与加拿大高校及艺术机构合作开展艺术学习与参与度研究。
- In 2017 the university entered an agreement with Huawei to receive cloud computing equipment for research and teaching.2017年,学校与华为签署协议,获得用于教学科研的云计算设备。
- Fraser International College and the Discovery Parks Trust site beside the Burnaby campus provide a pathway and research-park interface between the university and external partners.本拿比校园旁的菲莎国际学院与探索公园信托园区,构成学校与外部伙伴之间的升学通道与研究园区界面。
- At the School of Computing Science, the official rankings dashboard cites CSRankings placing SFU fourth among Canadian universities overall and second in Canada in computer vision and computer graphics.在计算机科学学院方面,学校排名页面援引CSRankings数据,SFU整体居加拿大高校第4位,计算机视觉与计算机图形学分列加拿大第2位。
- Teaching is supported by the W. A. C. Bennett Library at Burnaby holding over 2.7 million print and microform volumes, the Belzberg Library downtown and the Fraser Library at Surrey.教学科研由三座图书馆支撑:本拿比的W. A. C. Bennett图书馆藏有逾270万册印刷与缩微文献,市中心有贝尔兹伯格图书馆,素里有弗雷泽图书馆。
- The Faculty of Environment, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Applied Science deliver Canada-scale programmes in sustainability, including the Sustainable Energy Engineering degree based at the Surrey campus.环境学院、健康科学院与应用科学学院提供加拿大国内规模领先的可持续发展类课程,其中可持续能源工程学位课程设在素里校区。
- Governance follows the British Columbia University Act: the Board of Governors, chaired by a government appointee, runs the university, the Senate holds academic authority, and Convocation elects four senators, with Joy Johnson serving as president and vice-chancellor since September 1, 2020, and Elio Luongo installed as thirteenth chancellor on June 12, 2026.学校依《不列颠哥伦比亚大学法》治理:理事会由政府任命者主持负责全校管理,参议会掌学术权力,学位授予大会选出四名参事;Joy Johnson自2020年9月1日起出任校长(vice-chancellor),Elio Luongo于2026年6月12日就任第十三任校监。
- In its published accounts the university reported an endowment of C772 million in 2025 and an operating budget of C653 million in the 2022-23 budget documents.学校公开账目显示,其2025年捐赠基金规模为7.72亿加元,2022至2023年度预算文件所载运营预算为6.53亿加元。
Campus
- The 170-hectare (420-acre) Burnaby campus spreads across the summit of Burnaby Mountain at 365 metres elevation, about 15 kilometres from downtown Vancouver, and its interconnected brutalist buildings were designed by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey.本拿比校区占地170公顷(420英亩),铺展在海拔365米的本拿比山顶,距温哥华市中心约15公里,由Arthur Erickson与Geoffrey Massey设计的连体式粗野主义建筑贯穿其间。
- Named buildings on the mountain include the Academic Quadrangle at the campus core, the Robert C. Brown Hall, Shrum Science Centre, Saywell Hall, Blusson Hall housing the Faculty of Health Sciences, the two Technology and Science Complexes with the 4D LABS laboratories, the Maggie Benston Centre and the Convocation Mall.山上的标志性建筑包括居于校园核心的学术方庭、罗伯特·C·布朗楼、舒鲁姆科学中心、赛韦尔楼、容纳健康科学学院的布卢森楼、装有4D实验室的两座科技楼、玛吉·本斯顿中心以及毕业典礼长廊。
- The campus's concrete architecture won the 2007 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Prix du XXe siècle and a gold medal at the 2009 Lieutenant-Governor Awards in Architecture, and buildings such as the W. A. C. Bennett Library and the Academic Quadrangle have served as filming locations for films and television series.校园的混凝土建筑获2007年加拿大皇家建筑师学会“二十世纪奖”与2009年副总督建筑奖金奖,W. A. C. Bennett图书馆与学术方庭等楼群还多次成为影视外景地。
- At the heart of the campus sit the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology with totem poles transferred from the Royal British Columbia Museum, collections of Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppets and an image archive of over 120,000 slides, plus three art galleries.校园中心坐落着考古与民族学博物馆,馆内有从皇家不列颠哥伦比亚博物馆移来的图腾柱、印度尼西亚皮影戏藏品和逾12万件幻灯图像档案,周边另有三座美术馆。
- Library digital collections include Harrison Brown's Xi'an Incident papers, documents of the Doukhobor migration assembled by John Keenlyside, the Vancouver Punk Collection with more than 1,200 posters, a British Columbia postcards collection and over 9,800 Canadian editorial cartoons.图书馆数字馆藏包括Harrison Brown的西安事变文献、由John Keenlyside汇集的杜霍博尔人迁移文书、藏有逾1200张海报的温哥华朋克收藏、不列颠哥伦比亚明信片集,以及9800余幅加拿大报纸漫画。
- SFU Galleries stewards an art collection of over 5,500 works across the SFU Gallery founded in 1970, the Teck Gallery at Harbour Centre founded in 1989 and the Audain Gallery at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts founded in 2010, while the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies holds some 50,000 objects documenting First Nations art and culture.SFU画廊体系藏有逾5500件作品,包括1970年创设的本拿比SFU画廊、1989年创设于海港中心的泰克画廊与2010年创设于高德宝艺术中心的奥丹画廊,比尔·里德西北海岸艺术研究中心另藏约5万件记录原住民艺术与文化的物件。
- The Vancouver campus was launched in the 1980s with a storefront classroom, the first urban university teaching space in British Columbia, its first permanent home at the rebuilt heritage Harbour Centre opening on May 5, 1989, and its eight downtown buildings include the Segal Graduate School of Business, the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the Charles Chang Innovation Centre and the 130,000-square-foot Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, where the School for the Contemporary Arts moved in September 2010 into the restored Woodward's building with the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre.温哥华校区始于1980年代的一间店面教室,是不列颠哥伦比亚第一座城市大学课堂,1989年5月5日改建后的历史建筑海港中心成为其永久校舍,市中心八座楼宇包括西格尔研究生院、莫里斯·J·沃斯克对话中心、陈查理创新中心,以及13万平方英尺的高德宝艺术中心——当代艺术学院于2010年9月迁入修复后的伍德华兹大楼,内设费明与黄懋礼实验剧场,整个校区每年服务逾7万人,其中约1万名注册学生。
- The Surrey campus occupies the Central City complex designed by architect Bing Thom and opened in 2006 beside Surrey Central SkyTrain station, plus a second five-storey LEED Gold building opened on April 25, 2019 across the street, housing the Sustainable Energy Engineering programme with labs for 440 full-time students.素里校区主体为建筑师甘本铭设计、2006年启用的中央城大楼,紧邻素里中央天车站,街对面另有一座2019年4月25日启用、获LEED金级认证的五层新楼,容纳440名全日制学生的可持续能源工程课程实验设施。
- UniverCity, the sustainable community adjoining the west end of the Burnaby campus, began construction in 2000 on about 81 hectares envisioned in Erickson and Massey's 1963 plan, and by September 2011 housed roughly 3,000 residents, University High Street shops, a 20,000-square-foot Nester's Market and University Highlands Elementary, opened September 1, 2010, with up to 4,500 dwellings planned.与校园西端相接的可持续社区UniverCity于2000年在约81公顷土地上动工,其构想可追溯到埃里克森与梅西1963年的规划,至2011年9月已居住约3000人,设有大学高街商铺、2万平方英尺的Nester's超市与2010年9月1日开学的大学高地小学,规划住宅多达4500套。
Reputation
- Simon Fraser University is placed 312th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, thirteenth in Canada in the 2024 edition of the same ranking.西蒙弗雷泽大学在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第312名,在该榜2024年版中列加拿大第13名。
- In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings SFU sits in the 351-375 band, and the university's own rankings dashboard reports a 301-350 band placing it eleventh in Canada.在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中,SFU处于351至375区间,学校官网排名页则显示其在301至350区间、列加拿大第11位。
- U.S. News placed SFU 444th in the world in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities ranking, twelfth in Canada in the 2022-2023 edition, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 lists the university in the 401-500 band.在2026至2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名中SFU居世界第444位,2022至2023年版曾列加拿大第12位,软科世界大学学术排名2026年版将其列在401至500区间。
- Maclean's 2026 rankings again rate SFU the number one comprehensive university in Canada, a category it has topped in 1993, 1996 to 1998, 2000, 2008 to 2013 and 2015 to 2020, though the university has declined to take part in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.《麦克林》2026年排名再次将SFU评为加拿大综合类大学第一,此前它曾在1993年、1996至1998年、2000年、2008至2013年以及2015至2020年蝉联该类别榜首,不过学校自2006年起拒绝参加该杂志的研究生调查。
- In the World's Universities for Real Impact 2022 rankings SFU ranked 18th in the world and first in Canada, and in the 2019 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities it placed 378th, fifteenth to sixteenth among Canadian universities in the 2018-2019 University Ranking by Academic Performance.在2022年“全球现实影响力大学排名”(WURI)中SFU居世界第18、加拿大第1,在2019年科研论文世界大学排名中列第378位,在2018至2019年学术绩效大学排名中列加拿大第15至16位。
- Subject strengths are led by computer science: CSRankings places SFU fourth in Canada overall and second in computer vision and computer graphics, and the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025 rate it second in Canada for sustainable cities and communities and for climate action, fifty-second overall on that measure.学科优势以计算机科学为首,CSRankings列SFU加拿大总体第4、计算机视觉与图形学第2,泰晤士高等教育影响力排名2025年版则将其列为加拿大可持续城市与社区第2、气候行动第2,该口径下总名次为世界第52。
- According to OpenAlex the university has produced 87,205 research works that have attracted 6,334,256 citations, and in 2023 it drew C$150 million in research funding by its own accounting.据OpenAlex统计,SFU已产出87,205项研究成果并被引用6,334,256次,学校自述2023年科研经费达1.5亿加元。
- SFU faculty and alumni have won 43 fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada and one Pulitzer Prize, and graduates named Rhodes Scholars include Joel Bakan.SFU教职员与校友已获43个加拿大皇家学会院士席位与1项普利策奖,获罗德学者称号的校友包括Joel Bakan。
- On April 20, 2004 SFU conferred honorary degrees on three Nobel Peace Prize laureates: the 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi, adding to an honorary roll opened in 1967 when media theorist Marshall McLuhan received the university's first honorary doctorate.2004年4月20日,SFU向三位诺贝尔和平奖得主——第十四世达赖喇嘛、德斯蒙德·图图与希琳·伊巴迪——授予名誉学位,而该校名誉学位名录始于1967年媒介理论家马歇尔·麦克卢汉获颁首个名誉博士。
Student life
- The university motto is Nous sommes prêts in French, meaning We are ready, and the revised coat of arms registered in 2007 replaced two crosses with books so that no one would mistake the public, secular university for a religious college.学校格言为法语“Nous sommes prêts”,意为“我们已准备好”,2007年注册的修改纹章以书卷取代十字饰件,以免人们误把这套世俗公立大学当作宗教院校。
- Student government rests with the Simon Fraser Student Society, which funds more than 300 campus clubs, while the student newspaper The Peak has been published since shortly after the university opened in 1965 and CJSF 90.1 FM has broadcast as the campus community radio station since the early 1970s.学生自治由西蒙弗雷泽学生社承担,其资助校园社团逾300个,学生报纸《The Peak》创刊于1965年开学后不久,CJSF 90.1 FM则自1970年代初起担任校园社区电台。
- Campus festivals include the annual Terry Fox Run, Clubs Week and Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a January party that fuses Burns Night with Chinese New Year begun by students in the 2000s.校园节庆包括一年一度的泰瑞·福克斯跑步义跑、社团周,以及由学生创办于2000年代、把彭斯之夜与中国春节合办的“Gung Haggis Fat Choy”晚会。
- Residence on the Burnaby mountain houses 1,766 students in six areas: the three eight-storey Towers with 713 single rooms, Shell House for 143 students, McTaggart-Cowan Hall for 200, an eleven-townhouse complex for 396, graduate Hamilton Hall for 104 and the former women-only Madge Hogarth House, now a community centre.本拿比山宿舍区在六个生活区容纳1766名学生:三栋八层的Towers提供713间单人间、贝壳楼143人、麦克塔格特-考恩堂200人、11栋联排别墅楼群396人、研究生公寓汉密尔顿堂104人,早年只收女生的麦柱·贺格夫楼现改为社区中心。
- In Fall 2004 the introduction of a compulsory meal plan for residence students, whose unused balances were initially forfeited, provoked sit-in protests outside the residence office and forced a partial policy reversal.2004年秋季,宿舍强制购餐计划上线且剩余餐费一度作废,引发学生在宿舍办公室外静坐抗议,校方被迫部分撤回政策。
- Six Greek-letter organisations maintain chapters on campus, including Delta Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Pi Phi and Alpha Kappa Psi, but none is recognised by the university under a policy enacted in 1966.六个希腊字母社团在校园设有分支,包括德尔塔·卡帕·伊普西隆、阿尔法·派·派与阿尔法·卡帕·派赛,但依据1966年出台的政策均不受学校承认。
- The Tau chapter of the social-service club Phrateres was installed at SFU in 1966, one of 23 chapters founded at North American universities between 1924 and 1967, including the Theta chapter at nearby University of British Columbia.服务型姐妹会Phrateres的Tau分堂于1966年在SFU设立,该会1924至1967年间在北美的大学共设23个分堂,邻近的不列颠哥伦比亚大学即有Theta分堂。
- The decades-old Clan nickname was retired in 2020, and in September 2022 the varsity teams were renamed the Simon Fraser Red Leafs, keeping the Scottish Terrier McFogg the Dog as the longstanding mascot and light red and dark red as the colours.沿用数十年的“Clan”队名于2020年弃用,2022年9月运动队正式定名“西蒙弗雷泽红叶队”(Red Leafs),苏格兰梗犬“McFogg the Dog”是其长期吉祥物,队色定为浅红与深红。
- The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has won the World Pipe Band Championships in 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2001, the World Drum Corps Championship in 1999 and 2004, and North American titles in 1982, 2002 and 2001 in Australia.西蒙弗雷泽大学风笛队曾于1995、1996、1999与2001年四夺世界风笛乐队锦标赛冠军,1999与2004年获世界鼓乐锦标赛冠军,并于1982、2002年夺得北美冠军、2001年夺得澳大利亚管乐冠军。
Notable people
- Educator John B. Macdonald, whose 1962 report set the university in motion, Gordon M. Shrum, appointed first chancellor in May 1963, who chose the Burnaby Mountain summit and later became a Liberal senator of British Columbia, and W. A. C. Bennett, the Social Credit premier under whom the legislature approved the university, form its founding trio.推动建校的教育家John B. Macdonald是1962年报告的作者,首任校监Gordon M. Shrum于1963年5月受任、选定本拿比山顶校址并后任不列颠哥伦比亚省自由党联邦参议员,批准设校的社信党省长W. A. C. Bennett,三人构成学校的创始组合。
- Patrick McTaggart-Cowan served as the university's first president from January 1, 1964 until 1968, and Pauline Jewett, later a member of Parliament, led SFU as president from 1974 to 1978.Patrick McTaggart-Cowan自1964年1月1日起出任大学首任校长至1968年,后任联邦议员的Pauline Jewett则于1974至1978年间执掌SFU。
- Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist of the global village, received the first honorary degree ever conferred by SFU in 1967, on April 20, 2004 the university conferred honorary doctorates on three Nobel Peace Prize laureates, the 1989 awardee the 14th Dalai Lama, the 1984 awardee Desmond Tutu and the 2003 awardee Shirin Ebadi, and the honorary roll later welcomed primatologist Jane Goodall, psychologist Steven Pinker, economist Jeffrey Sachs and science broadcaster Bill Nye.提出“地球村”概念的媒介理论家马歇尔·麦克卢汉于1967年获颁SFU历史上第一个名誉学位,2004年4月20日学校又向三位诺贝尔和平奖得主——1989年度第十四世达赖喇嘛、1984年度德斯蒙德·图图与2003年度希琳·伊巴迪——授予名誉博士学位,其后的名誉学位名录还纳入灵长类学家珍·古道尔、心理学家史蒂芬·平克、经济学家杰弗里·萨克斯与科学节目主持人比尔·奈。
- Thelma Finlayson, the university's first female faculty member, built a career in aquatic biology at SFU and marked its centenary of sorts in 2014 when the university celebrated its first professor emerita turning 100.学校首位女性教职员Thelma Finlayson在SFU开创水生生物学研究,2014年学校为她这位首位名誉退休教授的百岁寿辰举行庆祝。
- Three premiers of British Columbia are SFU alumni: Glen Clark, Gordon Campbell and Ujjal Dosanjh, while Pakalitha Mosisili served as prime minister of Lesotho and Mahamudu Bawumia, an SFU-trained economist, became vice president of Ghana.不列颠哥伦比亚省三位省长出自SFU校友:Glen Clark、Gordon Campbell与Ujjal Dosanjh,莱索托前首相Pakalitha Mosisili同样在此就读,经济学科班出身的Mahamudu Bawumia则官至加纳副总统。
- In business, alumnus Francesco Aquilini owns the Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Arena, Minh Le created the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike, Mark Okerstrom rose to chief executive of Expedia Group, Zabeen Hirji served as chief human resources officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Robert Turner directs the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.商界方面,校友Francesco Aquilini拥有温哥华加人冰球队与罗渣士体育馆,Minh Le创作了半衰期模组《反恐精英》,Mark Okerstrom官至Expedia集团首席执行官,Zabeen Hirji曾任加拿大皇家银行首席人力资源官,Robert Turner主持马克斯·普朗克人类认知与脑科学研究所。
- In science, SFU-connected researchers include environmental chemist Elsie Sunderland of Harvard, interventional cardiologist John G. Webb who performed the first transapical TAVI procedure in 2006, and genomist Marco Marra, director of the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre of the BC Cancer Agency.科学界,与SFU相关的学者有哈佛的环境化学家Elsie Sunderland、2006年完成首例心尖入路经导管主动脉瓣植入术的介入心脏病学医生John G. Webb,以及不列颠哥伦比亚癌症机构迈克尔·史密斯基因组科学中心主任Marco Marra。
- Olympic champions from the varsity programmes include freestyle wrestlers Daniel Igali, gold medallist at Sydney 2000, and Carol Huynh, gold medallist at Beijing 2008 in the first Olympic women's freestyle weight, with canoe medallist Sue Holloway and rower Hugh Fisher also alumni.校队出身走出奥运冠军:自由式摔跤选手Daniel Igali夺得2000年悉尼奥运金牌,Carol Huynh在2008年北京赢得首届奥运女子自由式摔跤金牌,皮划艇奖牌得主Sue Holloway与赛艇名将Hugh Fisher亦为校友。
- Chinese-speaking alumni include the Taiwanese actor and singer Calvin Chen, who studied economics, actress Sonija Kwok, Miss Hong Kong 1999, who read psychology and economics, filmmaker Vincent Kok of the comedy Lost in Tokyo, and Isabel Ge Mahe, vice president of Apple and managing director for Greater China.华语校友包括修读经济学的台湾艺人辰亦儒、1999年香港小姐冠军并修读心理与经济学的郭羡妮、导演谷德昭,以及苹果副总裁兼大中华区董事总经理葛越(Isabel Ge Mahe)。
- Humanitarian Terry Fox studied kinesiology at SFU and played its secondary basketball team before starting the Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980, running 5,052 kilometres across Canada until his cancer recurred near Thunder Bay on September 12, 1980, and in 2001 the university conferred an honorary degree on his mother Betty Fox, honorary chair of the Terry Fox Foundation.人道主义者泰瑞·福克斯就读于SFU人体运动系并入选校二级篮球队,1980年4月12日从圣约翰斯发起“希望马拉松”,横穿加拿大奔跑5052公里,直至1980年9月12日在桑德贝附近因癌症复发停下,2001年学校向他的母亲、泰瑞·福克斯基金会名誉主席贝蒂·福克斯授予名誉学位。