Pipe band sergeant David Hilder (r) and leading drummer Andre Tessier.

The junior Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band takes first in its class at the world pipe band championships in Glasgow, while the famed SFU Pipe Band places second. The senior band is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It has won four World Championship titles and a World Drum Corps Championship, produced nine recordings and two concert/documentary videos, and runs the "Piping Hot Summer Drummer" program each summer that brings more than 200 people to Silver Star Mountain resort near Vernon for a learning program.

WHEN I'M CALLING YOU-OO-OO-OO-OO-OO
It’s not Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, it’s one moth calling another, according to PhD student Melanie Hart. Most moths court by using pheromones, but the peach twig borer moth that infests Okanagan orchards uses acoustics, so researchers cannot lure them into traps by smell. Hart and her thesis supervisor, Gerhard Gries, are patenting the research that will see the moths lured by tape recordings of mating sounds.

“ Good design is the best means to improve the social, physical, and economic well-being of all Canadians” – Rob Woodbury (above)

Good Design I The Surrey campus becomes home to a new Canadian Design Research Network supported by the Networks of Centres of Excellence program. Interactive arts and technology professor Rob Woodbury says the network will bring together more than 100 researchers from across the country working in all aspects of design.

Diversity Award
SFU is one of five Canadian employers recognized by The Canadian Immigrant magazine for its commitment to workplace diversity. Other recipients are RBC Financial Group, Safeway, Channel M Television, and the CBC.

Burnaby Mountain secondary school student Candace Wong spent a week in May in the SFU museum helping to prepare the puppets for the Open House event.

Shadow Puppets
A rare collection of Indonesian shadow puppets, known as wayang kulit, is donated to the university's museum of archaeology and ethnology. Nearly 600 intricately designed and brightly painted puppets dating from the 1870s to the 1920s are catalogued by student volunteers and museum staff.

Lawyer Abuse No Joke
Criminology student Karen Brown surveyed 1,152 lawyers and found 60% of them had been victims of some form of abuse. Only one percent had been physically attacked, but others reported inappropriate emails, explicit threats, death threats, and approaches, including face-to-face confrontations. Family lawyers, prosecutors, and civil litigators reported the most abuse.

Coming Up Trumps

Good Design II

The Design Group

REAL GAMES
Terry Lavender, Surrey graduate student and public affairs and media relations officer, develops two video games addressing social issues. In Homeless: It’s No Game, the
participant takes on the persona of a homeless woman navigating Vancouver’s mean streets. In St. Paul’s Invaders, the player tries to get enough public support to keep St. Paul’s Hospital in the West End, rather than having it moved to False Creek Flats.

DREAM COMES TRUE

Daniel Igali's home village now has its school. Fundraising continues and you can help.

It's All About Food

Continuing studies program director Debbie Bell and food security initiative poster.

Column Art by: SFU Pipers, Shadow Puppets and Daniel Igali photo: Marianne Meadahl/PAMR. Rob Woodbury photo: Barry Shell. Moth photo courtesy of www.msstate.edu. Brad Bart photo: Barry Shell. Design Group photo: Susan Jamieson-Mclarnon. Debbie Bell photo: Diane Luckow/PAMR.

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