Jeremy N. McNeil, was born in England, and received his primary and secondary education in Newfoundland and England, respectively. He moved to Canada in 1964, received a B.Sc. Hon. in Zoology at the University of Western Ontario in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Entomology and Ecology at North Carolina State University in 1972. During his graduate studies Jeremy received both a regional and a national award from the Entomological Society of America for his research. In 1972 Jeremy took a position in the Department of Biology at Laval University, where he was a professor for 30 years, until the end of 2002. He received a Humboldt Prize and spent 2003 at Hamburg University, then in 2004 was named the Helen Battle Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. McNeil’s research interests are in behavioral and chemical ecology, studying fundamental aspects of mate choice, migration, as well as plant-insect and host-parasitoid interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has trained 32 M.Sc., 17 Ph. D. students, as well as 12 PDFs, most now well established researchers in Universities and Government agencies around the world.Together they have published >190 papers in primary international journals and > 10 book chapters. He was received a number of research awards, including the C. Gordon Hewitt Award and Gold Medal from the Entomological Society of Canada, The Fry medal from the Canadian Society of Zoologists, The Silver Medal of the International Society of Chemical Ecology, the L. O. Howard Award from the Entomological Society of America (Eastern Branch) and the Delwart Prize in Chemical Ecology (Belgium). Professor McNeil has been heavily involved in teaching, giving both undergraduate and graduate courses in entomology and ecology, as well as developing a course, "Communication in Science" discussing the preparation of manuscripts, posters and oral presentations. In the last decade he has given short versions of this course in France, Portugal, Thailand and China, as well as annually at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. He was named "Professuer etoile" in the Faculty of Science at Laval University and in 1985 was the Eastern Branch Nominee for the Entomological Society of America's Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. Jeremy has served on editorial boards of The Canadian Entomologist, The Canadian Journal of Zoology, Entomologia experimentalis et applicata, The Journal of Chemical Ecology, Chemoecology and the Journal of Economic Entomology. He regularly serves on committees for granting agencies (Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, The Canadian Foundation of Innovation, The Canada Research Chairs program), as well as a referee for international journals, granting agencies and Universities. Dr. McNeil is a member of several learned Societies and served as President of the Entomological Society of Canada, the Entomological Society of Quebec, the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies and the International Society of Chemical Ecology. He is currently a councillor for the Entomological Society of Ontario. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is currently the RSC Foreign Secretary. Dr. McNeil is also been very active in the public awareness of science and each year, for the last 20 years, has spoken to > 500 school children in North America, Europe and Australia. He also gives regular presentations at public institutions, as well as to amateur science and gardening clubs. Jeremy has received several regional and national awards for his outreach activities, including The Faculty of Science Outreach award at UWO, the McNeil Medal from the RSC (no relation!!) and the Gordin Kaplin Award from the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies. ------------------ Jeremy N. McNeil, was born in England, and received his primary and secondary education in Newfoundland and England, respectively. He moved to Canada in 1964 when he enrolled in an honours degree in Zoology at the University of Western Ontario. Upon graduation in 1969 he enrolled as a graduate student in Entomology and Ecology at North Carolina State University and received his Ph.D. in 1972 under the direction of Professor R. L. Rabb. During his graduate studies Jeremy received a regional and a national award from the Entomological Society of America for his research on the diapause of hyperparasitoids of the tobacco hornworm. Following his Ph.D. Dr. McNeil immediately moved to the Department of Biology at Laval University in Quebec City, where he was a professor for 30 years, until he took early retirement at the end of 2002. At this time he received a Humboldt Prize and spent 2003 at Hamburg University working with Professor W. Francke in the Department of Organic Chemistry. Having decided retirement was not for him, Jeremy accepted a position as the Helen Battle Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Western Ontario in 2004. From 2008-2011 he was the Scientific Director of the Biotron, a research facility on campus, set up to study different aspects of climate change. Dr. McNeil’s research interests are in behavioral and chemical ecology, studying fundamental aspects of mate choice, seasonal migration, as well as plant-insect and host-parasitoid interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within his research program Professor McNeil has trained 32 M.Sc., 17 Ph. D. students, as well as 12 PDFs, most now well established researchers in Universities and Government agencies around the world. With his students and collaborators Jeremy has published >190 papers in primary international journals and > 10 book chapters. He was received a number of research awards, including the C. Gordon Hewitt Award and Gold Medal from the Entomological Society of Canada, The Fry medal from the Canadian Society of Zoologists, The Silver Medal of the International Society of Chemical Ecology, the L. O. Howard Award from the Entomological Society of America (Eastern Branch) and the Delwart Prize in Chemical Ecology (Belgium). Throughout his career Professor McNeil has been heavily involved in teaching, giving both undergraduate and graduate courses in entomology (Introductory Entomology, Integrated Pest Management) and ecology (Introductory Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Chemical Ecology). In addition he developed a course, "Communication in Science" discussing techniques for the preparation of manuscripts, posters and oral presentations, which he taught regularly for a number of years. In the last decade he has been invited to give short versions of this course at Universities in France, Portugal, Thailand and China, as well as giving it regularly for the last 6 years at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. He was named "Professuer etoile" in the Faculty of Science at Laval University (based to student evaluations) and in 1985 was the Eastern Branch Nominee for the Entomological Society of America's Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching (a nomination prepared by the undergraduate and graduate students in Biology). Jeremy has/does serve on several editorial boards: The Canadian Entomologist, The Canadian Journal of Zoology, Entomologia experimentalis et applicata, The Journal of Chemical Ecology, Chemoecology and the Journal of Economic Entomology. In addition he annually serves on committees for national granting agencies (Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, The Canadian Foundation of Innovation, The Canada Research Chairs program), as well as a referee for international journals, granting agencies and Universities. Dr. McNeil is a member of several learned Societies and has served as President of the Entomological Society of Canada, the Entomological Society of Quebec, the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies and the International Society of Chemical Ecology. He is currently a councilor for the Entomological Society of Ontario. Since being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Jeremy has chaired several RSC committees, organised an international symposium on GM plants in collaboration with the l’Academie Francais and represented the RSC in nationally funded collaboration with the Senegalese Academy. Currently he serves as the RSC Foreign Secretary. Dr. McNeil is also been very active in the public awareness of science and each year, for the last 20 years, has spoken to > 500 school children in North America, Europe and Australia. He also gives regular presentations at public institutions, as well as to amateur science and gardening clubs. Jeremy has received several regional and national awards for his outreach activities, including The Faculty of Science Outreach award at UWO, the McNeil Medal from the RSC (no relation!!) and the Gordin Kaplin Award from the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies.

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.