George Weisz is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of comparative medical history. His work has analyzed major developments in the history of modern and contemporary healthcare. These include medical specialization, chronic disease, quantification, medical professions and medical training, holism and reductionism in medical science, and variation and standardization in healthcare. He currently works on the history of global health.

George Weisz est un chercheur renommé dans le domaine de l’histoire médicale comparée. Il a analysé les développements majeurs de l’histoire de la médecine moderne et contemporaine, notamment la spécialisation médicale, les maladies chroniques, la quantification, les professions médicales et la formation médicale, l’holisme et le réductionnisme en science médicale, ainsi que la variation et la standardisation des pratiques. Il travaille actuellement sur l’histoire de la santé mondiale.

Awet Weldemichael is a scholar of Northeast Africa and island Southeast Asia with a focus on contemporary history and political economy. He is a former refugee goatherd turned professor and award-winning author of several books. Ranging from 20th century colonialism to 21st century maritime piracy, his multidisciplinary scholarship challenges conventional wisdom by amplifying the voices of the unheard, the weak, and the unrepresented.

Awet Weldemichael est un spécialiste de l’Afrique du Nord-Est et de l’Asie du Sud-Est insulaire, qui s’intéresse à l’histoire contemporaine et à l’économie politique. Il est un ancien chevrier réfugié devenu professeur et auteur primé de nombreux livres. Allant du colonialisme du 20e siècle à la piraterie maritime du 21e siècle, son travail multidisciplinaire remet en question les idées reçues en portant la voix des personnes non entendues, faibles et non-représentées.

Jennifer Welsh holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University. She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Her research focuses on humanitarian intervention, the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsibility to protect’ in international society, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy.

Jennifer Welsh est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche Canada 150 en gouvernance et sécurité mondiales à l'Université McGill. Elle était auparavant professeure et présidente des relations internationales à l'Institut universitaire européen et professeure en relations internationales à l'Université d'Oxford, où elle a cofondé l'Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Ses recherches portent sur l'intervention humanitaire, l'évolution de la notion de « responsabilité de protéger » dans la société internationale, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU et la politique étrangère canadienne.

Werstine, Paul - English Literature - University of Western Ontario Paul Werstine has edited Shakespeare’s plays and poems with Barbara A. Mowat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. He also serves, with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin, as general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, the most comprehensive of Shakespeare editions. ------------------ Werstine, Paul - English Literature - King's University College at the University of Western Ontario Paul Werstine has been credited with transforming the field of Shakespeare editing and textual criticism. He has edited Shakespeare with Barbara A. Mowat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (1992-2010), the edition published in forty-two books by Simon and Schuster and aimed at a general audience. He has also served since 1996, with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin, as the general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, published by the Modern Language Association of America. The most comprehensive of Shakespeare editions, the Variorum contains reference to all significant writing about and performance of the works.

WEST, Lori - Department of Pediatrics, Department of Surgery, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta Dr. Lori West, clinician scientist at the University of Alberta, has focused her career on finding treatments for infants with lethal cardiac malformations. Through rigorous scientific and clinical investigations, Dr. West discovered that blood group mismatched heart transplants could be carried out safely during infancy, which saves hundreds of newborn babies worldwide each year and has profoundly transformed our understanding of the human immune system.

John Whalley of the University of Western Ontario has a worldwide reputation as a leading exponent of quantitative general equilibrium theory, a body of analysis which is currently revolutionizing economists' approaches to problems of tax, trade, and development policy. Whalley has been at the forefront both in creating this body of techniques and in applying them to the policy problems of advanced countries such as Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and to those of less developed countries too. His work is as notable for its sensitiviey to political and institutional realities as it is for its exceptional technical quality. He has thus made fundamental contributions to one of the most important bodies of applied economic analysis to appear since World War II.

Dr. J. 0. Wheeler is probably Canada's foremost authority on the regional structural geology of the Canadian Cordillera. At present, as head of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Survey of Canada, he is responsible for the scientific direction and co-ordination of all the work undertaken in the area by the Geological Survey. His personal research at present is concerned primarily with the unravelling of the depositional and orogenic evolution of the southern Cordillera. He is also co-ordinator of the structural research project in the southern Cordillera sponsored by the National Advisory Committee on Geological Sciences. Wheeler has recently completed a synthesis of the geology of the southern Cordillera, a synthesis that is immeasurably superior to any published up to the present.

Anne Wheeler began her career as a filmmaker in Edmonton in the 1970s and has gone on to establish herself as one of Canada's leading filmmakers in the fields of feature film, documentary film, and television drama. She has adapted stories by major Canadian writers, created three important films dealing with Canada and WWII. She has won numerous professional awards and distinctions, holds six honorary doctorates, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Ian Whishaw, Department of Psychology, The University of Lethbridge, has made many outstanding contributions to the relatively new discipline of behavioural neuroscience which investigates the connections between brain systems and behaviour. Much of his research, as exemplified by the finding that differentiated digit use is present in rats as well as primates, has refined our understanding of neural control systems for motor activity. This, in turn, has facilitated the study of selective brain damage and its effect on motor behaviour as well as therapeutic strategies to heal the injured brain. Publications describing this impressive body of work are of the highest quality and have appeared in the most prestigious scientific journals.

White, Lydia - Linguistics - McGill University Lydia White is internationally recognized as a pioneering scholar in the field of generative second language acquisition. Her work has resulted in a new research framework, guided by the hypothesis that second language acquisition can be explained in terms of a combination of the operation of universal linguistic principles and mother tongue influence. ------------------ White, Lydia - Linguistics - McGill University Lydia White is internationally recognized as the leading scholar in the field of generative second language acquisition. Her pioneering work is acknowledged to have created a new framework for second language research, guided by the hypothesis that universal principles and parameters which underlie the acquisition of a native language apply also to the attainment of a non-native language by adult learners. In addition, her research has provided crucial theoretical and methodological tools for investigating how the native language may affect the learning of a second language. She has published more than 100 scholarly articles and is the author of two acclaimed textbooks that have influenced the training of researchers world-wide.

Mary Anne White is a world leader in experimental investigations of thermal properties of materials, at the overlap of chemistry, physics and materials science. Her contributions to the basic understanding of thermal conduction in solids and phase stability in complex systems have advanced science and led to new directions in applications such as more efficient thermoelectric materials and thermally erasable paper.

Mary Anne White est une experte mondiale en matière de recherches expérimentales sur les propriétés thermiques des matériaux, spécialité qui se situe au croisement de la chimie, de la physique et de la science des matériaux. Ses découvertes relatives à la conduction thermique des solides et à la stabilité de phase de systèmes complexes ont fait faire un bond à la science et ont donné lieu à de nouvelles applications, comme des matériaux thermoélectriques plus rentables et du papier effaçable sous l’effet de la chaleur.