She was instrumental in designing and implementing the innovative Sto:lo/SFU certificate in First Nations Language and Culture and is currently conducting research involving aboriginal languages and new technologies. Gardner and colleague Mark Fettes, who is leading a five-year project aimed at helping B.C. aboriginals attain greater academic, social and economic success, talk about their work when they give the President's faculty lecture on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Halpern Centre in Burnaby. President’s Lecture Series