S.J. Rachman, University of British Columbia, is a leading investigator in the areas of personality, clinical psychology and behavioural medicine. He has contributed significantly to the assessment of the effects of psychotherapy; to the understanding of the relationships between normal and neurotic cognition and emotion; and to the development of increasingly sophisticated techniques of behavioural therapy. His integrative theoretical and empirical work produced advances both in basic theory and in treatment. He is the Director of a major Canadian program in clinical psychology, holds important editorships, and has received numerous honors.

René Racine a commencé sa carrière d'astronome par l'étude des amas d'étoiles. Il s'est servi de ces objets pour déterminer l'échelle des distances extragalactiques et aussi l'évolution de la composition chimique dans les galaxies rapprochées. Ensuite, il s'est transformé en bâtisseur de télescope, d'abord au Québec avec celui du Mont Mégantic, puis à Hawaii comme premier directeur canadien du Télescope France-Canada-Hawaii. Aujourd'hui, il s'intéresse à l'optique active qui peut permettre à un télescope terrestre d'approcher la qualité d'image d'un télescope spatial.

Judy Radul is an award-winning and internationally renowned new media artist and scholar whose research investigates how technologies shape perceptions of reality. Her complex, large-scale installations provoke reflection on the nature of truth, power, and representation. Radul’s practice has had a significant impact in the areas of legal aesthetics, representation and perception, and camera motion technology. Her many high-profile residencies, exhibitions, and scholarly contributions reflect her national and international profile.

Judy Radul est une artiste des nouveaux médias et une chercheuse primée et de renommée internationale dont les travaux portent sur l’influence qu’ont les technologies sur la perception de la réalité. Ses installations complexes à grande échelle suscitent une réflexion sur la nature de la vérité, du pouvoir et de la représentation. La pratique de Radul a eu un impact considérable dans les domaines de l’esthétique juridique, de la représentation et de la perception, ainsi que de la technologie du mouvement de caméra. Ses nombreuses résidences, expositions et contributions scientifiques de haut niveau témoignent de son envergure nationale et internationale.

Nigel Raine is internationally recognized for his pollinator behaviour, ecology and conservation research. He is broadly engaged with policy and media discussions on pollinator health. Raine’s world-leading studies have driven a shift in understanding how pollinators, and the ecosystem services they provide, are affected by pesticides. His work reveals the importance of learning and memory in bee foraging and navigation in complex landscapes, and tracks changes in wild pollinator biodiversity.

Nigel Raine est renommé dans le monde entier pour ses recherches dans les domaines du comportement, de l’écologie et de la conservation des pollinisateurs. Il est activement engagé dans les débats politiques et médiatiques sur la santé des pollinisateurs. Ses études ont permis de mieux comprendre les effets des pesticides sur les pollinisateurs et les écosystèmes. Ses travaux font ressortir l’importance de l’apprentissage et de la mémoire chez les abeilles qui butinent dans des paysages complexes. Ils portent aussi sur les changements qui se produisent dans les milieux naturels sauvages où évoluent les polinisateurs.

LONG Ray V. Rajotte is a world leader in islet transplantation. His pioneering work in islet isolation, cryopreservation, and transplantation in various animal models allowed the Islet Transplantation Group, which he started in 1982, to take their basic research to the bedside in 1989 by carrying out Canada's first clinical islet transplant to the standard of care for brittle diabetes in 2000. Using what has become known as the Edmonton Protocol, clinical success was improved from 8% to 100% of the diabetic patients becoming insulin independent following an islet transplant. The Edmonton Protocol has set the standard for islet transplantation, which other centres around the world are now trying to emulate. SHORT Ray V. Rajotte’s pioneering work in various animal models allowed his Islet Transplantation Group to take their basic research to the bedside by carrying out Canada's first clinical islet transplant. Using what has become known as the Edmonton Protocol, clinical success allowed diabetic patients to become insulin independent following an islet transplant.

Dr. Julie Rak is a field leader in the study of autobiography and life writing in Canada and internationally. Her fierce commitment to socially-engaged research shifted the study of autobiography away from a focus on famous literary figures to writers and artists who are marginalized. The power and purpose of life stories across media, especially by those who have been excluded from the body politic because of their gender, race, class or sexual orientation, motivates her scholarship and her advocacy.

Julie Rak est une sommité dans l’étude de l’autobiographie et du récit de la vie au Canada et à l’étranger. Son fervent engagement envers la recherche socialement engagée a fait en sorte que l’étude de l’autobiographie s’est détournée des figures littéraires célèbres en faveur des écrivains et des artistes marginalisés. Le pouvoir et la finalité des histoires vécues exprimées dans l’ensemble du spectre médiatique, en particulier par les personnes qui ont été exclues du corps politique en raison de leur sexe, de leur race, de leur classe sociale ou de leur orientation sexuelle, motivent ses recherches et sa mission de plaidoyer.

Dr. Ramachandran is a Distinguished Researcher and Researcher Emeritus at the National Research Council. He is an international authority in the fields of cement science and technology, and a world leader in concrete admixture science and technology. Dr. Ramachandran has established interrelationships between chemistry, surface chemistry, microstructure and physicomechanical phenomena in cement systems that are of great theoretical and practical significance and, is the author/editor of twenty books on cement and concrete.

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.