John McNeill has made important contributions to several areas of pharmacological research. During the past decade, he has concentrated on the effects of diabetes on the heart. His laboratory has been able to demonstrate pathological changes in hearts of diabetic animals, which resemble the cardiomyopathies seen in human diabetics. They have made the important discovery that oral administration of vanadium salts can lower blood sugar and prevent the secondary complications of diabetes in these animals. This observation has opened up a whole new area of investigation. Dr. McNeill and his group are currently studying several synthetic vanadium compounds which have the potential to be useful therapeutic agents. It is possible that oral administration of these agents will be able to substitute for insulin injections in the treatment of diabetic patients.

Kenneth Douglas McRae is former chairman of the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, in which he is a Professor, and former Chairman of the Publications Committee of the Social Science Research Council of Canada. Kenneth McRae is Canada's foremost student of the ethnic politics of multi-national states. Starting his academic career as a political philosopher with the definitive editing of Jean Bodin's "The Six Bookes of a Commonweale", Harvard (1962) he became increasingly engrossed in political problems arising from the heterogeneity of the populations of modern states. He made a major contribution to, and is author (with Louis Hartz and others) of "The Founding of New Societies", 1964; wrote a perceptive and popular study of Switzerland ("Switzerland: Example of Cultural Co-existence", 1964); edited and wrote important parts of "The Federal Capital: Governmental Institutions", 1969; and recently edited and wrote parts of the best available presentation of current theories of a well-known group of scholars concerned with methods of reconciling differences in mixed states ("Consociational Democracy: Political Accommodation in Segmented Societies", 1974). His work has received international recognition; he is currently co-directing, with Arend Lijphart, the first joint workshop of the European Consortium for Political Research and the Canadian Political Science Association on 'Conflicts and Policy Options in Multinational Societies,' to be held in Louvain in 1976.

Joseph Melançon, professeur de littérature et de théorie littéraire à l'Université Laval, est connu pour ses travaux de recherches en didactique institutionnelle et en axiologie. Il a publié trois livres et contribué à seize ouvrages collectifs, de même que plus de quarante articles parus dans des revues canadiennes et étrangères, notamment en France, en Belgique, en Italie, en Israël, au Brésil et aux États-Unis. Il a dirigé la revue « Études littéraires » et a été membre du comité de rédaction de « Protée ».

Dr. Ronald Melzack is a professor of psychology at McGill University. He is concerned with understanding the nature of pain. His neurophysiological and psychological investigations have established the importance of higher-level neural control systems on the perception and tolerance of pain. The resulting Melzack-Wall gate-control theory has replaced older neurological and psychological ideas about pain and offers a new approach to the understanding and treatment of chronic pain. His work is original, significant, and influential. It has stimulated new lines of fundamental neurological and psychological research, and has suggested novel practical applications.

LONG CITATION Alberto Mendelzon is an international leader in database theory and the preeminent Canadian researcher in data management. His pioneering work on database dependencies has been influential in both the theory and practice of data management. His work has inspired numerous applications in database design, query processing, and data integration. He has made fundamental contributions in the areas of graphical and visual query languages, knowledge-base systems, and online analytic processing. His work has provided the foundation for languages used to search web and XML data. SHORT CITATION Alberto Mendelzon is an international leader in database theory and the preeminent Canadian researcher in data management. He has made fundamental contributions in the areas of graphical and visual query languages, knowledge-base systems, and online analytic processing. His work has provided the foundation for languages used to search web data.

Dr. Geoffrey Meyerhof, Dean of Engineering at the Nova Scotia Technical College, is still an active research worker in soil mechanics and foundation design. Following experience at the British Building Research Station, he has worked in Canada for forty-five years and continued the production of notable papers on theoretical soil action and allied experimental subjects. Eminent as teacher and research leader, he is the author of many outstanding papers in his special field that are amongst those most frequently quoted in international geotechnical literature.