Susan Dick is recognized nationally and internationally as an outstanding editor of Virginia Woolf's novels and shorter fiction, a major field of contemporary English studies. Her 1972 edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" revealed her outstanding skill as an editor, later proved in her 1982 edition of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and 1985 edition of Woolf's "Shorter Fiction". To her reputation as an editor, there is her reputation as a critic shown in her forthcoming book on Woolf's fiction, an expanded edition of "The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf" which was published in 1989 ("Virginia Woolf"). She was one of the editors of "Omnium Gatherum: Essays for Richard Ellmann", which also appeared in 1989. She is a member of the eitorial committee of the Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf. In 1992, she published an edition of "To the Lighthouse" for the series. She is currently co-editing "Between th Acts" for the series.

Gordon H. Dixon is one of the world' s leading protein chemists. In addition to determining the amino acid sequence of the active center (catalytic site) of the enzyme chymotrypsin, the first enzyme for which this was done, and showing the way by which similar studies might be applied to other enzymes, he was one of the leaders of a group of workers who determined the structure of haptoglobins and drew attention to chemical differences in genetically different haptoglobins. A few years ago, a group of protein chemists in Pittsburgh, Pa., succeeded in synthesizing the A & B chains of insulin, and they sent these chains to Dixon in Canada for assembly into a complete insulin molecule, which he successfully accomplished.

Lubomir Dolezel has contributed with distinction to a number of areas of study: Czech, Russian and comparative literary history, linguistics and linguistic studies of literary works, post-structural and semiotic approaches to texts. He has also been the scholar who has done the most to initiate and develop the theory of possible worlds, i.e. the narratological approach permitting the precise analysis and interpretation of the means used in the "creation" of fictional worlds in literary works. The number of references to his books and other major statements, including a very great number of his articles, is truly staggering. All his accomplishments, but especially the possible world theory, have given him the highest international profile in literary theory and methodology held by any Canadian scholar since Northrop Frye.

Murray Donnelly has made an extraordinary contribution In scholarship, in university government and in the application of his wide and thorough knowledge of political science to the services of both federal and provincial governments. He has written two highly commended books, "The Government of Manitoba" and "J.W. Dafoe of the Free Press", has contributed to other volumes of studies on government and has written many articles. Provost of University College of the University of Manitoba and a member of the university's Board of Governors, he has been and is currently a member of two important Royal Commissions.