#MFA

#MFA

The School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver takes a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to studies in the arts, offering an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, an MA in Contemporary Arts, and a PhD in Contemporary Arts. The internationally-recognized artists and scholars that make up our faculty work at the generative fringes of Dance, Film, Music & Sound, Theatre & Performance, Performance Production & Design, and Visual Art, with a focus on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary practices.

The Master of Science in Visualization integrates art and technology to prepare students to become creative and pragmatic leaders. The program fosters the development of focused expertise and a broad foundation of knowledge in the artistic, scientific, cognitive, and technical aspects of the discipline. Students select an area of focus and complete a research thesis or capstone project. Areas of emphasis include augmented and virtual reality, computer animation, computer graphics, data visualization, game design and development, virtual production, interactive design, and user experience design.

In a blog post, Redmond said a cybercrime crew it tracks as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees since March 2025, hijacking salaries by breaking into HR software such as Workday. The attack is as audacious as it is simple: compromise HR and email accounts, quietly change payroll settings, and redirect pay packets into attacker-controlled bank accounts. Microsoft has dubbed the operation "payroll pirate," a nod to the way crooks plunder staff wages without touching the employer's systems directly.

The attack, a continuation of a campaign conducted in July, involves fraudulent messages asking users to verify their email address for security purposes, and claiming that accounts may be suspended due to lack of action. "This email is fake, and the link goes to pypi-mirror.org which is a domain not owned by PyPI or the PSF [Python Software Foundation]," PSF security developer-in-residence Seth Larson warns. Setting up phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), Larson explains, helps PyPI maintainers mitigate the risks associated with phishing attacks.