Hélène Deacon, Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University, is a world-leading researcher into reading development. Her work’s ground-breaking impact is recognised with awards across multiple disciplines, including from Speech-Language & Audiology Canada, the March of Dimes Foundation, and the US National Academy of Education. In Canada, she is co-Director of a new Partnership Grant: Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World.

Hélène Deacon, professeure en psychologie et neurosciences à la Dalhousie University, est une chercheuse renommée dans le développement de la lecture. L’impact révolutionnaire de son travail est reconnu par des prix dans de nombreuses disciplines, y compris ceux de l’organisation Orthophonie et Audiologie Canada, de la fondation March of Dimes et de l’Académie nationale d’éducation des États-Unis. Au Canada, elle est codirectrice d’une nouvelle bourse de partenariat intitulée Assurer l’alphabétisation complète dans un monde multiculturel et numérique.

Charles Deber has advanced the application of chemical and biophysical techniques to molecular medicine, thereby increasing our understanding of the structural implications underlying diseases involving membrane proteins. His group employed designer linear and cyclic peptides, and libraries of mutant viral proteins, to elucidate fundamental features of peptide/protein structure in membrane environments.

DEDHAR, Shoukat, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia Shoukat Dedhar’s pioneering work in the field of cell adhesion have uncovered the molecular basis of how cells in the body adhere to the surrounding matrix and how cell adhesion regulates fundamental aspects of cellular physiology. His discovery of Integrin-Linked Kinase has generated a large body of work which has demonstrated fundamental roles of this protein in normal tissue function and pathologies such as cardiovascular dysfunction, renal failure, and cancer.

Long Citation M. Jamal Deen is a scientific leader internationally recognized for his research in the analysis, modeling and applications of microelectronic and optoelectronic devices. He has developed powerful physics-based models for the accurate analysis and design of high-performance semiconductor devices. These outstanding seminal contributions build on his innovative experimental techniques to study important device properties. A highly accomplished researcher, inventor and a prolific scholar, his device models and experimental innovations are used worldwide. Outstanding examples include: • algorithms and models for computation of key semiconductor device performance parameters; • the gated-lateral bipolar transistor and novel circuits for modulation and amplification; • and the solid-state microscope used in biomedical applications. Short Citation M. Jamal Deen is internationally recognized for his research in the analysis, modeling and applications of microelectronic and optoelectronic devices. A highly accomplished researcher, inventor and a prolific scholar, his device models and experimental innovations are used worldwide.

DEI, George Jerry Sefa, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto George Dei is an international renowned educator, researcher and writer considered by many as one of Canada’s foremost scholars on race and anti-racism studies. His work in the sociology of race and ethnicity in education, the challenges of inclusive schooling and minority education in pluralistic contexts, and Indigenous knowledge systems have contributed to shaping critical debates on equity and decolonial education in Canada and beyond. A key contribution to education is his scholarly investigation of how educators in multiple contexts engage links of identity, knowledge production and schooling. Dei has been a major proponent and a pioneering voice in the establishment of African-centred schools in Canada.

Erick Delage is recognized worldwide in the field of Operations Research with high-impact contributions to his credit. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Decision Making Under Uncertainty and is known for having pioneered distributionally robust optimization, a dominant mathematical modeling paradigm with vast applications in transportation, healthcare, finance, etc. He is also a leader in the development of numerical methods for treating limited information about the decision maker’s preferences.

Erick Delage est reconnu sur le plan international dans le domaine de la recherche opérationnelle. Il est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la prise de décision en incertitude et est pionnier de l’optimisation robuste aux fluctuations distributionnelles, un paradigme de modélisation mathématique prédominant avec des applications dans les transports, les soins de santé, la finance, etc. Il est également chef de file dans le développement de méthodes numériques de traitement d’informations limitées relatives aux préférences d’un décideur.

Michel Delfour's work involves a balance between the creative developments of mathematical tools and their application to problems of practical interest. He has made fundamental contributions to the theory of delay systems, the numerical solution of Riccati equations, the control of flexible structures and shape analysis and optimization. His work is characterized by mathematical elegance and economy. He has also made significant contributions in the areas of telecommunications, the Canadian space program, hydroelectric power distribution, applied elasticity and disease control.

Patricia Demers of the University of Alberta has performed major service to the humanities as Chair of her department and Vice-President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. However her best claim to distinction is as a scholar of range and subtlety. Her critical studies of early women writers, her literary biography of the prominent eighteenth-century woman of letters, Hannah More, are models of balanced investigative scholarship, and her critical editions of early works for children are landmarks in the serious study of formative literary works. She has now returned to her primary area, the renaissance, with a major study in progress of Women Writers of the English Renaissance.

Using modern crystallographic and mineralogical methods Dence and his research group confirmed the existence in Canada of 23 craters due to hypervelocity impact, with numerous other suspected sites yet to be investigated in detail. As principal investigator of lunar samples he has, with others, demonstrated the essential similarity of shocked material and crater forms on the earth and moon. These results, together with recent planetary photographs, provide powerful evidence for a common history for the inner planets of the solar system, from initial accumulation to later intense bombardment by planetesimals with profound influence on primeval crustal composition and structure.

Jean-Louis Denis est professeur titulaire à l'Université de Montréal et chercheur de renommée internationale dans le domaine de la transformation et de la gouverne des organisations de santé. Il a défini avec ses collègues un modèle particulier de leadership collectif et il a analysé le changement dans les organisations de santé et les processus de décentralisation du système de soins. Il s'intéresse également au rôle des connaissances scientifiques dans la prise de décision.

A dynamic researcher and educator who has elucidated the important metabolic roles of non-green plastids in plants. His research established the occurrence of glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway in plastids and demonstrated the importance of these pathways to the supply of carbon compounds for fat synthesis. Through diligent effort he has established that the isozymes in the plastid have regulatory properties that are distinctively different from their cytoplasmic counterparts. He is actively investigating the genetic relationships of the various isozymes and the import of one of the isozymes into the plastid. Through his extensive work he has established the importance of compartmentation in the regulation of metabolism in plants.