Rui Wang is a pioneer in the field of H2 S biology and medicine who has discovered the endogenous production of H2 S in the cardiovascular system and its widespread physiological functions. He identified H2 S as an endothelium-derived relaxing and hyperpolarizing factor that dilates resistance arteries and control blood pressure. He has established the critical roles that H2 S plays in the pathogenesis of hypertension, angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and asthma.

Rui Wang est un pionnier dans le domaine de la biologie et de la médecine du sulfure d’hydrogène (H2 S). Prof. Wang a découvert la production endogène de H2 S dans le système cardiovasculaire et ses fonctions physiologiques répandues. Il a identifié le H2 S comme un facteur relaxant et hyperpolarisant dérivé de l’endothélium qui dilate les artères de résistance et contrôle la pression artérielle. Il a établi les rôles critiques que joue le H2 S dans la pathogenèse de l’hypertension, de l’angiogenèse, de l’athérosclérose, du diabète et de l’asthme.

Zhou Wang is internationally recognized for his ground-breaking work on perceptual image quality assessment and processing. His award-winning seminal paper has created a paradigm change in the field, and has resulted in the most widely used approach for visual quality assessment. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a 2014 recipient of the NSERC Steacie Memorial Fellowship.

Zhou Wang est reconnu internationalement pour ses travaux novateurs sur l’évaluation et le traitement de la qualité perceptuelle de l’image. Son article fondamental primé a créé un changement de paradigme dans le domaine et a permis de créer une méthode qui est la plus couramment utilisée pour déterminer la qualité visuelle. Le Dr Wang est chercheur à L’Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers et récipiendaire d’une bourse commémorative Steacie du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie (CRSNG) discernée en 2014.

Dr. Xiuquan Wang is internationally recognized for his contribution to the understanding of regional climate change impacts through his pioneering work in high-resolution regional climate modeling, statistical downscaling, and urban flood modeling. His research results provide scientific foundations to support the smooth transition from symbolic climate crisis declarations to real climate actions and have been widely used by thousands of researchers, resources managers, and climate practitioners around the world.

Xiuquan Wang est internationalement reconnu pour sa contribution à la compréhension des impacts régionaux des changements climatiques grâce à ses travaux avant-gardistes sur la modélisation climatique régionale à haute résolution, la réduction d’échelle statistique et la modélisation des inondations urbaines. Les résultats de ses recherches fournissent des bases scientifiques pour soutenir la transition en douceur des déclarations symboliques de crise climatique vers des actions climatiques concrètes et ont été largement utilisés par des milliers de chercheurs, de gestionnaires de ressources et de praticiens du climat dans le monde entier.

David Ward is a world leader in the study of high-spin states in atomic nuclei. He has made important discoveries with gamma-ray spectroscopy techniques about the structure of nuclei formed in states of extremely high angular momentum. He has also made major contributions to experimental techniques through his work in energy loss phenomena and hyperfine interaction of Ions in materials. A most notable contribution was the construction and subsequent use of a new-generation gamma-ray spectrometer, the "8¶ spectrometer" at Chalk River. With it, he and his coworkers have discovered among other things the first case of multiple superdeformed bands in a nucleus.

Norman Wardlaw, Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Calgary, is internationally recognized for his pioneering studies of the geochemistry of salt and potash deposits and for his innovative work on the flow of oil, gas and water in petroleum reservoirs. He has carried out ground-breaking research on the geometric properties of pore spaces in reservoir rock, and has adapted image analysis techniques for the study of complex interactions of three fluids moving in pore spaces. His work is being used for predicting amounts and rate of oil and gas reservoir recovery and the design of optimum recovery systems. The work also has applications to the transport of pollutants in groundwater, a problem of profound world-wide significance.

Leading interpreter of the historical and regional geography of Canada, John Warkentin has, through his wide-ranging scholarly work, provided the first modern geographical studies of our country. As the organizing head and the guiding light of the volume, "Canada: A Geographical Interpretation", and as co-author of "Canada Before Confederation", his concepts have influenced a generation of scholarship in this country. In his imaginative writing on the history of geographical ideas and their application in the exploration and mapping of the 'western interior of Canada' he has demonstrated clearly and forcefully the value in grounding our historical interpretation of man in his use of, and ideas about, the land.

WARSH, Cheryl Krasnick - Department of History, Vancouver Island University Cheryl Warsh is a leading social historian who has broken new ground in Canadian healthcare history. Her work has given voice to vulnerable populations including the mentally ill, the addicted, and children in the 19th century, and contextualized gender, health and popular culture in contemporary times. As editor of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, she introduced a generation of medical historians and shaped a flourishing field of research.

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David Waterhouse comes from the spa town of Harrogate, on the edge of the Yorkshire dales and moors; though his maternal grandfather, a relative of the painter J.M.W.Turner, was a Londoner. At Rossall School, where he was a major scholar, he specialized in Classics (Latin and Greek). During two years of military service he obtained a diploma in pianoforte from the Royal Academy of Music. For the next five years he was at King's College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner, and read successively Classics, Moral Sciences (i.e. Philosophy) and Oriental Studies Japanese and Chinese). He also worked as a Research Assistant for the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. On leaving Cambridge he joined the staff of the British Museum, as an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Oriental Antiquities; and wrote his first book, on the development of the Japanese colour print. In 1964 he left England for the University of Washington, in Seattle, partly to pursue interests in ethnomusicology. In 1966 he was invited to the University of Toronto, where since 1975 he has been a Full Professor, in the Department of East Asian Studies. He is also a Senior Member of University College; a faculty member of the Centre for South Asian Studies, the Centre for the Study of Religion, and the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies; and a Research Associate of the Royal Ontario Museum. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Danielle Way, a world leader in the field of global change biology, works to elucidate how climate change will impact plants, particularly the evergreen trees that comprise Canada’s boreal forest. Her research has revealed how rising temperatures and CO2 affect plant physiological processes, which not only increases our knowledge of how climate affects plants, but also provides the forestry industry with essential information on future forest productivity and function.

Danielle Way, une sommité mondiale en biologie du changement climatique, effectue ses recherches sur les répercussions du changement climatique sur les plantes, et en particulier sur les conifères de la forêt boréale canadienne. Ses recherches ont démontré l’influence de la hausse des températures et du CO2 sur les processus physiologiques des plantes. Ses travaux ont non seulement contribué à améliorer nos connaissances des interactions entre le climat et les plantes, mais aussi fourni à l’industrie forestière des données essentielles sur le rendement forestier à venir.

Dan Wayner has made seminal contributions to the electrochemistry, kinetics and thermochemistry of organic free radicals and radical ions. His innovative studies provided the first comprehensive compilation of standard potentials of radicals, dramatically increased the store of reliable bond dissociation energies and generated many novel chemical probes of reaction mechanisms.

Professor Weaver has written on many aspects of the social history of Canada and other countries. Studies of housing and crime in Canadian cities were followed by analyses of land acquisition and property rights in the New World colonies that resulted in his highly acclaimed book The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World 1650-1900 (2003). More recently, he has published on the subject of suicides.

Le professeur Weaver a traité de nombreux aspects de l’histoire sociale du Canada et d’autres pays. Après ses études sur le logement et la criminalité dans les villes canadiennes, il a effectué des recherches sur l’acquisition de biens fonciers et sur les droits de propriété dans les colonies du Nouveau-Monde. Ces travaux ont abouti à la publication, en 2003, d’un ouvrage qui a obtenu un énorme succès : The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World 1650-1900. Ses publications récentes ont porté sur le suicide.