A16-Sunday News, Jane 8, 1980

community roundup [II

Daniel Jed Harrison,
winner of the Gordon M.
Shrum Medal and $500 Prize
at Simon Fraser University,
didn't attend the University’s
Convocation ceremonies on
Saturday, June 7. Instead, he
was travelling through
Morocco, Tunisia and
Europe on a vacation before
entering a PhD program at
the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Sep-
tember.

Harrison, oldest of three
children of Mr. and Mrs.
Roland Harrison of 4960

in the basement,” says Mrs.
Harrison. “Tt was
deafening.”

The music world wasn’t
ready for Baby Strange and
Harrison returned to his
academic pursuits. “He has
always been good at math
and said chemistry just
‘came naturally’,” Mrs.
Harrison says.

At SFU he did honors in
chemical physics, working
on a project dealing with the
photoelectrochemical con-
version of solar energy under

op. SFU prizewinner to study solar energy —

the joint supervision of Drs.
B. Lionel Funt of the
chemistry department and
Konrad Colbow of the
physics department.

In addition to his work on
the car pool, Harrison
organized a series of Friday
noon science’ research
lectures, was president of
the Chemical Sciences
Student Union, served on
the faculty of science un-
dergraduate curriculum
committee, was a member of
the University Senate and
served on the _ Senate

committee on scholarships,
awards and burssaries.

His father, an electrical
engineer, accepted
Harrison's medal and award
at the convocation
ceremonies.

Harrison has also been
awarded a Dr. E.J. Wells
Chemistry Book Award. In
addition, he is the recipient
of a Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research
Council scholarship in the
amount of $9,400 and has
been given an $11,000
scholarship by MIT.

Redonda Drive, North
Vancouver, will continue
research on solar energy
conversion. .

The Shrum award, named
after SFU’s first chancellor,
is given annually to the
graduating student who has
maintained a high scholastic
standing over at least six
semesters while showing
“outstanding qualities of
character and _ unselfish
devotion to SFU” through
participation in = extra-
curricular activities.

Harrison’s mother says he
has always been interested in
the environment -- in
conservation and in ecology.

“That, combined with his
imterest in administration,
was what ied him to
organizing a car pool at
SFU,” she says.

“When he (first started

DANIEL JED HARRISON... devotion to SFU.

going there he didn’t have a
car. I would loan him mine
once a week or so -- and part
of the time it went to his
sister, Sheila Jean, who was
attending UBC. So Jed did a
lot of ride-sharing and
wanted to find better ways
of utilizing what was already
available, rather than
covering trees and grassy
areas with more blacktop.”
Harrison began the SFU
car pool in 1977. Several
hundred students signed up

and Harrison, werking with
a computer, grouped par-

ticipants according to the .

locations of their residences.

After high = school,
Harrison played guitar with a
group of friends who put
together a band called “Baby
Strange”. They bought a van
to carry all their electronic
gear and set out to become
professional musicians.

“We were the only parents
who would let them practise

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