LONG Mark Winston excels at both science and public communication of scientific concepts and controversy. He has pioneered research on honey bee demographics, swarming, division of labor and "killer" bees. His award-winning studies that elucidate how the queen uses her mandibular gland pheromone to control her retinue of workers have led to new products that enhance pollination and calm worker bees for international shipment. He is a prolific contributor to scientific journals. His recent writings on environmental issues and science policy have culminated in two highly acclaimed books, "Nature Wars: People versus Pests" and "Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone." SHORT Mark Winston has pioneered research on honeybee demographics, swarming, division of labour and "killer" bees. His award-winning studies that elucidate how the queen uses her mandibular gland pheromone to control her retinue of workers have led to new products that enhance pollination and calm worker bees for international shipment.

Elke Winter is a sociologist with expertise in Canadian and European societies. Her comparative studies on interethnic relations, multiculturalism and citizenship have earned her the reputation of leading expert in her field, as attested by several prestigious awards. She is an alumna of the German National Academic Foundation, the University of Ottawa’s Young Researcher of the Year, and a recipient of the Canadian Sociological Association’s John Porter Award.

Sociologue de formation, Elke Winter est une experte des sociétés canadienne(s) et européennes. Elle est désormais reconnue comme chef de file dans son domaine grâce à ses recherches comparatives sur les relations interethniques, le multiculturalisme et la citoyenneté, comme en témoignent les nombreux prix prestigieux dont elle a été récipiendaire. Ancienne boursière de la Fondation universitaire allemande, elle s’est également vue décerner le Prix jeune chercheuse de l’année de l’Université d’Ottawa et le Prix John Porter de la Société canadienne de sociologie.

Roy Wise has made important contributions to knowledge about the systems of the brain underlying rewarding properties of drugs. He was the first to formulate the hypothesis that drugs of abuse have as their common substrate the dopaminergic systems of the midbrain. He has combined behavioral and neurochemical techniques to determine the changes in this system that accompany drug self-administration. Wise's work has brought the study of drug abuse into the realm of the study of the brain mechanisms underlying natural rewards, and it has transformed both experimental and clinical approaches to drug abuse.

Sandra Witelson, Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, has an international reputation for the scientific study of brain-behaviour relations. She has established a unique bank of human brains for which there are prospective neuropsychological data, and has discovered that there are both sex and handedness differences in the morphology of the corpus callosum and the temporal cortex. She has developed techniques for assessing functional cerebral asymmetries through tactual stimulation, and has related these to language disorders. Her interests in sexual differentiation have also led to research on the neurobiology of sexual preference, and to major contributions in developmental neurobiology.

Victoria Wohl, Distinguished Professor of Classics at University of Toronto, is an internationally recognized scholar of classical Greek literature and culture. Her pioneering work on Greek drama, historiography, and law bridges disciplinary divides to illuminate the psychic life and political culture of democratic Athens. Combining rigorous literary analysis with theoretical sophistication, her innovative scholarship expands the boundaries of ancient Greek literature and sustains a conversation between ancient and modern thought.

Victoria Wohl, professeure émérite de lettres classiques à la University of Toronto, est une sommité internationale de la littérature et de la culture grecques classiques. Ses travaux pionniers sur le théâtre, l’historiographie et le droit grecs transcendent les frontières disciplinaires pour mettre en lumière la vie psychique et la culture politique de l’Athènes démocratique. Alliant une analyse littéraire rigoureuse à une grande sophistication théorique, ses recherches novatrices repoussent les limites de la littérature grecque antique et alimentent le dialogue entre la pensée antique et la pensée moderne.

H.C. Wolfart, University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human language. His writings draw on the classical languages (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic) and modern European evidence as well as the Algonquian languages of North America; they cover a wide range of linguistic, philological, bibliographic, historical, and literary topics. He has studied the maintenance of language boundaries among nomadic and sedentary populations, and his investigations of spoken languages are complemented by studies of early records and the analytical principles embodied in them. His most significant contribution has been in the field of linguistic analysis, especially in the grammatical and semantic analysis of spoken texts. He is best known for his grammar of the Cree language (1973) and for text editions, published in the Cree original accompanied by a translation, which present and document one of the major indigenous literatures of Canada.

Alexander Wong is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to operational artificial intelligence and computational medical imaging. As a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, his work on scalable and explainable deep learning aims at making AI technology accessible to everyone, and at gaining a deeper understanding in how neural networks think. A prolific innovator, his creative work in computational medical imaging has led to the invention of a new form of MRI designed for cancer detection, the first blood-flow imaging system for observing arterial and venous flow from a distance, and a spectral light-field fusion microscope without lenses.

Alexander Wong est reconnu sur le plan international pour ses contributions pionnières en intelligence artificielle opérationnelle et imagerie médicale informatisée. Titulaire d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada à la University of Waterloo, ses travaux sur l’apprentissage profond mesurable et explicable visent à rendre la technologie de l’intelligence artificielle accessible à tout le monde et à acquérir une meilleure compréhension de la manière de penser des réseaux neuronaux. Inventeur prolifique, ses travaux créatifs en imagerie médicale informatisée ont mené à la création d’une nouvelle forme d’IRM conçue pour la détection des cancers, le premier système d’imagerie du flux sanguin pour l’observation à distance des flux artériels et vénaux, et un microscope à lumière spectrale sans lentilles.

Professor Wong is one of the very top leaders internationally in the important, widely cultivated, extensively applied and extraordinarily difficult field of asymptotic analysis. His work is characterized by great power, strict rigour, deep insight, imaginative originality, remarkable clarity and by wide-ranging applicablity within mathematics and to physics, engineering and statistics. In the asymptotics of integrals containing a parameter, subsuming such important transforms as those of Hankel, Hilbert, Kantorovich-Lebedev and Stieltjes, his novel methods yielded complete expansions and computable error bounds, all completely rigorously.

Long Citation K. Max Wong is a leader in signal processing. His research ranges from fundamental theory and algorithms to applications and designs of signal processors in communication, radar, and sonar systems. His work brought high resolution array processing methods into practical use in non-ideal environments. He pioneered applications of convex optimization to signal processing and solved design problems in line and wireless communications previously considered impossible. Author of over 200 technical papers, his inventions include the transmultiplexer and the wavelet echo canceller used in daily telephone systems while his algorithms in target detection and estimation are implemented in our defence systems. Short Citation K. Max Wong is a leader in signal processing who pioneered applications of convex optimization to signal processing and solved design problems in line and wireless communications previously considered impossible. His research ranges from fundamental theory and algorithms to applications and designs of signal processors in communication, radar, and sonar systems.

James Woodgett is Head of Experimental Therapeutics at the Ontario Cancer Institute and a major contributor to our understanding of the mechanisms by which proteins can convey signals and regulate cell activity. He began with studies of a protein regulator of glycogen metabolism (GSK-3); he showed that GSK is part of the signal pathway that is important in hepatic apoptosis. Woodgett's major work has been the elucidation of the signaling pathway triggered by genotypic stress. The Stress Activated Protein Kinase (SAPK) pathway is important in cellular response to drugs and may play a key role in resistance to cancer chemotherapy. His accomplishments have been recognized by appointment as Senior MRC Scientist, early promotion to full professor and appointment as Head of Experimental Therapeutics at the Ontario Cancer Institute.

Arch Woodside, Professor of Marketing, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, is one of the world's leading authorities on marketing and consumer psychology. Among his 350 academic journal articles (published in some 35 different major scientific journals) and conference proceedings papers and 24 books, he has contributed many articles identified in the scientific literature as seminal studies. His citations count places him in the 99.99 percentile among full professors. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the Society for Marketing Advances. He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Marketing at 12 universities in Canada, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Colombia, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, the United States and the United Kingdom. Since 1974, he has served as the editor of a leading academic journal in his field, the Journal of Business Research.