PETER RAND, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, first demonstrated and measured a ubiquitous new force between biological membranes and other hydrated surfaces, the hydration repulsion. Rand showed that hydration repulsion must now be added to the traditionally accepted forces of electrostatic repulsion and van der Waals attraction to account for the stability of large particles in solution. Rand's work stimulated much research by others. He opened a new field and his research is of fundamental importance in biophysics. Hydration repulsion force has applications to the behaviour of large particles that aggregate out of solution. Rand revolutionized thinking about interactions between membranes and other large surfaces in water.

Dr. Stephen J. Randall has been making a significant contribution to the study of American foreign policy, United States-Latin American relations, and Canadian-American relations for almost twenty years. Dr. Randall's strength as a scholar and historian is apparent in all of his scholarly writing. He has a reputation for balance, judicious analysis, and fairness. His work is consistently based on extensive research in American and non-American sources. All of it is placed in appropriate contexts. Dr. Randall is also a social historian, and works in business history, economic history, and Canadian-Latin American relations. He has been very active in attempting to strengthen Canadian academic relations with Mexico and Latin American countries, and he has worked hard both at McGill University and at The University of Calgary in broadening University contacts with the larger community. Widely praised by both graduate and undergraduate students as an excellent teacher and supervisor, he has a large number of successful Masters and Doctoral students to his credit. Dr. Randall is a scholar of broad national and international reputation, greatly in demand as an author and speaker in Canada, the United States and Latin America, whose opinions on Canadian-American relations, petroleum policy, and American-Latin American relations have been increasingly sought by the scholarly and business community over the last decade.

Lisa Rankin has significantly advanced our understanding of North Atlantic archaeology and Labrador Inuit history, bringing Indigenous agency to the complexities of Inuit-European contacts. Her ground-breaking approach to community-based research is recognized globally for its impacts on Indigenous communities, scholars and policy-makers. Lisa’s collaborative study of the deep-past inspires and educates Inuit youth and instils pride in heritage, while training new generations of northern archaeologists and bolstering local community economies.

Lisa Rankin a considérablement fait progresser notre compréhension de l’archéologie de l’Atlantique Nord et de l’histoire des Inuits du Labrador, en mettant l’accent sur la complexité des contacts entre les Inuits et les Européens. Son approche novatrice de la recherche communautaire est reconnue dans le monde entier pour son impact sur les communautés autochtones, les chercheurs et les décideurs politiques. L’étude collaborative de Lisa sur l’histoire profonde inspire et éduque les jeunes Inuits et leur inculque la fierté du patrimoine, tout en formant de nouvelles générations d’archéologues nordiques et en soutenant les économies des communautés locales.

LONG Professor C.N.R. Rao is an outstanding scientist who has made important contributions to many fields of physical and solid state chemistry. He has been intensely active in research for more than four decades. He is the author of more than 1000 research papers and has authored/edited more than 35 books. He has received a very large number of awards and is a Foreign Fellow of almost every academy. He has been a builder of institutions and has also been a leading force in science policy not only in India but also in the international arena. He is probably the most quoted and noted chemist from the Third World. He has also been quite instrumental in developing a close relationship between the Royal Society of Canada and the Indian National Science Academy. SHORT Professor Rao is an outstanding scientist who has made important contributions to many fields of physical and solid state chemistry. He has been a builder of institutions and has also been a leading force in science policy not only in India but also in the international arena. He is probably the most quoted and noted chemist from the Third World.

RASMUSSEN, Joseph B. – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge Joseph B. Rasmussen has contributed significantly to the development of tracer approaches to modeling energy flow in food webs based on fractionation and kinetics of naturally occurring isotopes. These approaches have yielded fresh insights, and technical inroads, into important ecological problems such as the biomagnification of persistent contaminants and the impacts of heavy metals and mining practices. Rasmussen’s research has important applications to conservation problems, including invasive species, habitat modeling and fragmentation.

Joseph B. Rasmussen a contribué d’une façon majeure au développement des méthodologies et approches écologiques basées sur des traceurs isotopiques naturels, leurs fractionations et cinétiques, pour la modélisation du flux d’énergie dans les réseaux trophiques. Ces approches ont généré des aperçus nouveaux et des solutions techniques pour résoudre des crises écologiques telles que la bio magnification de contaminants persistants et les répercussions des métaux lourds et d’exploitation minière. Les travaux de recherche de Rasmussen ont des applications directes à la conservation de la biodiversité et la lutte contre les espèces exotiques, la modélisation des habitats et leur fragmentation.

Dr. Ratzlaff's achievements as a choral conductor and educator, already recognized by the Alberta Award of Excellence and the Order of Canada, emerge from his innovations in choral technique, which he has drawn from the bel canto singing tradition. The strength and distinctiveness of the sound he brings about in performance and recording give his choirs a recognizable, singular, and widely admired personality. ------------------ RATZLAFF, Leonard –Department of Music, University of Alberta Dr. Ratzlaff's achievements as a choral conductor and educator, already recognized by the Alberta Award of Excellence and the Order of Canada, emerge from his innovations in choral technique, which he has drawn from the bel canto singing tradition. The strength and distinctiveness of the sound he brings about in performance and recording give his choirs a recognizable, singular, and widely admired personality. As a result, his choirs have won an unmatched record of prizes at choral festivals and competitions. Dr. Ratzlaff directed the first and still most important Canadian graduate program in choral conducting, whose graduates are active all over the world.

A.J. Ray is a historian and historical geographer whose work reflects his broad interests in aboriginal-white relations, the fur-trade, and the adaptive capacities of aboriginal peoples. He has also contributed importantly to the understanding of disease and population decline, diet, and the impact of agriculture and industrialization on the aboriginal-white relationship.

Isabelle Raynauld is a screenwriter, film director and Full Professor at the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. Her research on the history and theory of screenwriting practices has had a major impact on the advancement of knowledge in cinema and on the research of her peers in America and Europe. She has written and directed Jutra and Gémeaux award-winning fiction and documentary films. She is a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology just released the documentary «De la musique pour le cerveau/Tuning the Brain with Music» produced by the Oscar winning company Bunbury films.

Isabelle Raynauld est scénariste, réalisatrice et professeure au Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques de l’Université de Montréal. Ses recherches sur l’histoire et la théorie des pratiques d’écriture scénaristique ont eu un impact majeur sur l’avancement des connaissances en cinéma et sur les recherches de ses pairs en Amérique et en Europe. Elle a écrit et réalisé des fictions et films documentaires récipiendaires de Prix Jutra et Gémeaux. Elle est Fellow à l'Open Documentary Lab au Massachusetts Institute of Technology et elle vient de terminer le documentaire «De la musique pour le cerveau/Tuning the Brain with Music» produit par la compagnie oscarisée Bunbury films.

RAYSIDE, David – Department of Political Science, University of Toronto David Rayside is internationally recognized for his comparative studies of sexual diversity politics in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He was one of the first political scientists to publish on this topic, and this work, alongside that on gender inequity and religious contention, remains distinctive for its detailed attention to local, regional, national, and international contexts. He has combined this scholarship with a commitment to expanding the recognition of diversity in university settings, Canadian and American academic networks, labour unions, the media, and the broader community.

RAYSIDE, David – Department of Political Science, University of Toronto David Rayside est mondialement reconnu pour ses études comparatives sur les politiques de diversité sexuelle au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Il a été l’un des premiers politologues à publier sur le sujet et, ses travaux, tout comme ceux sur l’inégalité entre les sexes et les conflits religieux, restent déterminants en raison de l’attention particulière que l’auteur accorde aux contextes locaux, régionaux, nationaux et internationaux. Parallèlement à ces recherches, David Rayside milite pour la reconnaissance de la diversité dans le monde universitaire, dans les réseaux académiques canadiens et américains, les syndicats, les médias et la société dans son ensemble.

Donald Bruce Redford, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Toronto, has distinguished himself as philologist, historian and archaeologist. Author of a score of articles and three books, he has also participated in numerous excavations in Jordan and Egypt. He is Director of the Akhenaten Temple Project which is reconstructing the scenes on the walls of a temple dismantled in antiquity. This vast jigsaw is being assembled from over 35,000 scattered limestone blocks. Professor Redford's contributions in the field and in his publications have played an important part in putting the University of Toronto in the forefront of Egyptological studies.