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Former ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Surrey executive director Joanne Curry in 2008 at the Surrey launch of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s flagship startup incubator program, Venture Connection (now the Incubator program within the Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship), the longest running entrepreneurship initiative at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. 

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In 2013, the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Surrey-TD Community Engagement Centre (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV CEC) launches. The centre fosters engagement between ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV and the ethnically diverse and growing South Fraser community through programs in partnership with community groups.

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In December 2013, the eBrain Lab at Surrey Memorial Hospital opens. The NeuroTech Lab is a venue for ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers to collaborate with technology experts and hospital clinicians to advance research in the areas of brain injury, concussion measurement, surgical simulation, rehabilitative devices and spinal cord injury prevention.

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Community Leaders Igniting Change (CLIC) was initiated under the direction of the Surrey Poverty Reduction Coalition. After a pilot offering, CLIC has been funded through the financial support of Envision Financial and remains in partnership with the Surrey Poverty Reduction Coalition. Taught by Dr. Kathleen Burke (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Beedie School of Business), CLIC is a 12-week, grass-roots program which builds upon participants’ existing skills and knowledge to foster problem solving to local issues to promote social well-being and belonging. To date, over 100 participants have completed the CLIC program.

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On September 18, 2018, the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV ImageTech Lab, a world-class clinical research facility, opens its doors. The ImageTech Lab is the first-of-its-kind in Western Canada and will be a cornerstone in Surrey’s Health Technology District. It provides the critical combination of high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) together with high-density magnetoencephalography (MEG)—uniquely embedded within Surrey Memorial Hospital—an emerging academic health sciences centre.

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¶¡ÏãÔ°AV unveils the first phase of its $126 million, 221,000 square foot, 5-floor campus expansion. Located near the original campus building, the building houses the new Sustainable Energy Engineering program, the first of its kind in western Canada.

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¶¡ÏãÔ°AV received $17 million to establish a Quantum Algorithms Institute to be based at the Surrey campus. The institute will be one of the first facilities of its kind that focuses on building quantum computing software and algorithms.

COVID-19 impacted our ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV community, which required us to pivot to the online learning and working environment. Despite the fact that we were apart, the Surrey community remained busy and active, including many community-oriented projects.

As part of the Student Experience Initiative, many of the open study spaces on campus received an upgrade, including new furniture and cubicles.

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Surrey, the heart of innovation in the community, celebrated an incredible milestone - its 20th Anniversary, marking two decades of groundbreaking progress.

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The provincial government announced $4.9 million in start-up funding for a new medical school on ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's Surrey Campus, the first new medical school to be built in western Canada in more than 50 years. The school is aiming to start its charter class in fall 2026, and students will attend classes at the Surrey campus and other interim spaces before a new building is built. Residency programs are anticipated to start in 2028. 

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