JACK AND TERRY LEE
DOCTORS of FINE ARTS, HONORIS CAUSA
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2:30 PM

Brothers Jack Lee (left) and Terry Lee, two of the world's most accomplished bagpipers, have spent the past 30 years developing and leading the SFU Pipe Band to six world championships. Under their direction, the band caputered the 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2008 and 2009 championships in Glasgow, Scotland and is one of only two bands in history to win both the Medley and MSR events more than once (MSR five times, Medley five times). See our feature story.

BARRY DOWNS
DOCTOR of LAWS, HONORIS CAUSA
Tuesday, JUNE 11, 2:30 PM

Barry Downs has been practicing architecture in B.C. for more than five decades, and pioneered the West Coast modernist architectural style known for simple unadorned designs that are sensitive to site and context. In 1969, he co-founded Downs Archambault Architects (now D&A Architects+Planners), designing some of B.C.’s most prominent buildings, including Lester Pearson College of the Pacific, Kwantlen University’s Langley campus, Beatty Mews, the North Vancouver Civic Centre and, in association with Moshe Safdie, the Vancouver Library and Library Square. Downs has put his stamp on Vancouver’s built environment through his commitment to residential affordability, diversity and establishing connections between the built and natural environments. This philosophy is notable in the Champlain Heights and False Creek residential developments and in the post-Expo development of False Creek lands. Downs continues to work from his home studio in West Vancouver.

SHABANA AZMI
DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS, HONORIS CAUSA
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2:30 PM

Shabana Azmi is an acclaimed Indian actor who has appeared in more than 140 Hindi films and several international films, winning several national and international “best actress” awards. A respected social activist and member of the upper house of the Indian parliament, she is a passionate advocate for the rights of women, minorities and displaced slum dwellers. She has fought relentlessly against religious fundamentalism of all hues, and is respected as a vocal upholder of India’s secular liberal values. Her numerous international awards include the Gandhi International Peace Prize, the Martin Luther King Rosa Parks Chavez award, an International Human Rights award and the World Economic Forum’s 2006 Crystal Award, which honours artists who have used their art to improve the state of the world.

SENATOR KELVIN OGILVIE
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE, HONORIS CAUSA
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 9:45 AM

The Honourable Kelvin Ogilvie, Senator, is a past president of Acadia University and a leading international expert on biotechnology, bio-organic chemistry and genetic engineering. He is the inventor of the antiviral drug Ganciclovir, used worldwide to fight infections in weakened immune systems, and also developed the Gene Machine, an automated DNA manufacturing process. Admitted to the Order of Canada in 1991, he has served in the Canadian senate since 2009 and chairs the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology. He has received numerous awards for his scientific innovations, including the 1992 Manning Principal Award, and the 2012 Biomedical Science Ambassador Award from Partners in Research. He was an inaugural inductee into the Nova Scotia Discovery Centre Science and Technology Hall of Fame in 2002 and in 2011 he was inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in Ottawa.

ANDY MACKINNON
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA,
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 9:45 AM

Andy MacKinnon is a research ecologist with the BC Forest Service where he is involved in forest ecology research, ecosystem classification and mapping, and land use planning, for some of B.C.’s most sensitive environmental areas, including Clayoquot Sound, the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii. An SFU adjunct professor of resource and environmental management since 1991, he has served as an advisor to more than 20 graduate students. He also teaches field courses for UBC and University of Victoria at Bamfield and Haida Gwaii. MacKinnon is the co-author of six best-selling field guides to plants of western North America. In 2010 he received the Habitat Acquisition Trust’s Conservation Legacy Award for his work with Victoria’s regional land trust.

BISHOP MICHAEL INGHAM
DOCTOR OF LAWS, HONORIS CAUSA
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2:30 PM

In 2002 The Right Reverend Michael Ingham, Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster, became the first bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion to authorize the blessing of same-sex unions. Since then, he has been the subject of many feature articles and profiles, in B.C. and around the world. In 2003 Maclean’s Magazine named him the third most important newsmaker in Canada, and in 2008 Britain’s Daily Telegraph named him one of the 25 most influential Anglicans in the world. He is the author of the 1985 book Rites for a New Age, and Mansions of the Spirit (1997), which explores Christianity and the world’s religions. Bishop Ingham, who has served the diocese of New Westminster since 1994, is the longest-serving active Anglican bishop in Canada, and will retire in August 2013.