Patricia Martens, Professor of Community Health Sciences, Director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy is an internationally-known researcher whose work on health equity, mental health, and health status/ healthcare use of Manitoba’s rural & northern residents, Aboriginal people, and children has impacted the health of Manitoba communities and beyond. A Member of the Order of Canada (2013), she has given over 400 presentations and published over 250 articles, books and abstracts.

Patricia Martens est professeure en sciences de la santé communautaire et directrice du Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. De réputation internationale, elle a mené des recherches sur l’équité en santé et sur la santé mentale. Elle a aussi comparé l’état de santé et l’utilisation des services de santé par les résidents des collectivités du Nord et des régions rurales du Manitoba, par les peuples autochtones et par les enfants. Ses travaux ont contribué à améliorer l’état de santé des collectivités du Manitoba et d’ailleurs. Reçue membre de l’Ordre du Canada en 2013, elle a donné plus de 400 conférences et publié au-delà de 250 articles, ouvrages et résumés.

Professor Satoru Masamune is one of the world's most truly gifted and productive chemists. His outstanding international reputation was earned through highly creative synthetic accomplishments in the field of natural products and through many important contributions for improvement of chemical theory through the synthesis and study of numerous highly strained structures and polyene systems. Through the development of ingenious new methodology based in the most advanced modern instrumentation, he has characterized a wide number of short-lived reaction intermediates and thereby accomplished basic contributions to mechanistic aspects of photolysis, thermolysis, solvolysis and metal ion catalysis.

The studies of Dr. Matheson have spanned a period of 25 years. During this time, he has published approximately 60 full papers on subjects related to the structure and function of proteins. His major contributions have been in establishing the existence of a peptidase associated with ribosome particles and in determining the structural amino sequences of several ribosomal proteins from eucaryotic, eubacteria and archebacteria. These latter studies have provided support for the recently established finding that there exists a third kingdom of microorganisms termed archebacteria. His laboratory is well known for its work with halophilic bacteria which have been the experimental system used in much of his work. He has also contributed to the literature on the structure of 5S ribosomal RNA and to the question of evolutionary relatedness of species.

Spécialiste en droit international aérospatial, Me Nicolas Mateesco Matte est auteur de neuf livres et de nombreux articles dans ce domaine. Il a été le premier en Amérique à enseigner en français ce domaine particulier du droit à l'Université de Montréal en 1951. Président du Conseil permanent du Club des relations internationales à l'Université de Montréal (dès 1951), il fonda les « Annales de droit aérien et spatial ». Il a été l'organisateur et le président du congrès de l'International Law Association à Montréal en 1982 et il est, depuis, vice-président à vie de cette organisation. Il a été directeur de l'Institut et du Centre de droit aérien et spatial de l'Université McGill (1976-1989) et il y est actuellement directeur émérite. Il publiait en 1982, en anglais et en français, à Scarborough et à Paris, son ouvrage : « Droit aérospatial : les télécommunications par satellites; Aerospace Law. Telecommunications Satellites ». Il est actuellement vice-président de l'International Space University et avocat-conseil du bureau d'avocats Brouillette Charpentier Fortin de Montréal.

Born in the U.S., resident in Canada since 1957, Armand Maurer, C.S.B., received his licentiate in medieval studies in 1945 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1947. In a busy academic life, with direction of unusually numerous doctoral theses, he has edited and published a number of manuscript texts of medieval thinkers, along with critical studies, translations, and commentaries. His histories of medieval and of modern Anglo-American philosophy likewise continue this priceless tradition of scholarship in which past wisdom is recovered, preserved, clarified for the present age, and brought to bear upon our understanding of our own contemporary thought.