RAGHAVAN, Vijaya - Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University Vijaya Raghavan is a research scientist and engineer who studies and develops pre- and post-production technologies and processes for growing and handling crops and horticultural produce. His work on soil management, controlled environment storage, drying, and thermal processing have led to the development of technologies and techniques that are being applied in developmental work in India and potentially in Africa to address issues of food security and safety, and poverty.

RAGHAVAN, Vijaya - Département des bioressources, Université McGill Ce chercheur et ingénieur étudie et développe des technologies et procédés de pré - et post-production destinées aux semis, aux soins et au traitement des récoltes et produits horticoles. Ses travaux sur la gestion des sols, sur l’entreposage sous atmosphère contrôlée de même que sur les procédés de séchage et de traitement thermiques ont mené à la mise au point de technologies et de techniques que l’on applique aujourd’hui dans des projets de développement en Inde, et - éventuellement - en Afrique, pour répondre aux besoins de ces régions en matière de sécurité alimentaire et pour combattre la pauvreté.

Parminder Raina is an internationally recognized epidemiologist and scholar whose work over the past two decades has advanced the fields of longitudinal research design, evidence synthesis, and aging research. His pioneering contributions have helped bridge the biological dimensions of aging with the social determinants of health, offering deeper insights into the trajectories of aging. In 2022, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition of his significant impact on aging research.

Parminder Raina est un épidémiologiste et universitaire de renommée internationale. Les travaux qu’il mène depuis plus de vingt ans ont fait progresser les domaines de la conception des recherches longitudinales, de la synthèse des données probantes et de la recherche sur le vieillissement. Ses contributions pionnières ont permis de relier les dimensions biologiques du vieillissement aux déterminants sociaux de la santé, offrant ainsi une meilleure compréhension des diverses trajectoires du vieillissement. En 2022, il a été nommé membre de l’Ordre du Canada en reconnaissance de son influence considérable sur la recherche sur le vieillissement.

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.

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.