Rabab K. Ward, Centre for Integrated Computer Systems Research, The University of British Columbia, is a leader in the application of digital signal processing theory to cable and high-definition television, medical images, restoration of astronomical images, and extraction of an infant's distress level from his/her cry signal. Being a highly accomplished researcher and a prolific inventor, she has an impressive list of publications and patents, and her work is used in various companies and laboratories worldwide. Examples include her non-intrusive method for measuring the picture quality in cable TV systems, the non-interfering video system used by the aqua-culture industry, and the fluorescence microscope system used by cell-biology researchers.

Germaine Warkentin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, is the leading exponent, editor, and theoretician of exploration writing in English about early Canada. Her obviously breathtaking range is matched by equally impressive depth: few scholars have increased more our knowledge of the history of manuscripts and printed books in Western Europe and the Americas from 1300-1700. ------------------ WARKENTIN, Germaine –Department of English, University of Toronto Germaine Warkentin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, is the leading exponent, editor, and theoretician of exploration writing in English about early Canada. Using the important Humanities perspective of "book history" to investigate, anthologize, and edit the writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson and other explorers, she inaugurated a new field of academic study in Canada. This is in addition to her major contributions as a scholar of Early Modern literature, and her foundational work editing and writing critically on major modern Canadian writers, from Northrop Frye to James Reaney. Her obviously breathtaking range is matched by equally impressive depth: few scholars have increased more our knowledge of the history of manuscripts and printed books in Western Europe and the Americas from 1300-1700.

WARREN, Jean-Philippe - Département de sociologie et anthropologie, Concordia University Gagnant du Prix du Gouverneur Général, en 2015, Jean-Philippe Warren est un auteur prolifique qui a su s’établir au plan national et international. Ses travaux ont permis de mieux situer l’évolution du Québec dans un monde globalisé en faisant ressortir les tensions entre nationalisme, libéralisme et démocratie.

Roderick Wasylishen, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, is a leading practitioner of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the most widely used technique for the determination of unknown chemical structures. He is distinguished for his brilliant work on the directional properties of chemical shifts, spin-spin coupling constants, electric quadrupolar interactions and the dipolar couplings of various nuclei, as well as for the establishment of some absolute shielding scales. His work forms a bridge between the spectra of liquids and solids, which theorists will be able to use to test their theories and approximations and to obtain an understanding of these critical properties of matter.

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.

Grégoire Webber has gained international recognition for his research on human rights, public law, and the philosophy of law. A Canada Research Chair at Queen’s University and committed public servant, he has worked for the Privy Council Office, served as Legal Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and received a Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General for founding the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute.

Grégoire Webber bénéficie d’une réputation internationale pour ses recherches en droits de la personne, droit public et philosophie du droit. Titulaire d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada à l’université Queen’s et fonctionnaire dévoué, il a travaillé pour le Bureau du Conseil privé et à titre de conseiller aux affaires juridiques de la ministre de la Justice et procureur général du Canada. Il a reçu une médaille du service méritoire de la part du gouverneur général du Canada pour l’établissement de l’Institut de plaidoirie devant la Cour suprême.

Jill R. Webster, professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto and a corresponding member of the Societat Històrico-Arqueològica of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, has published extensively on Francesc Eiximenis, the Franciscans and the Carmelites in the realms of Aragon and on related topics. Her most recent publications are: "Els menorets - The Franciscans in the Realms of Aragon from St. Francis to the Black Death" (1348), Toronto, 1993; "Per Déu o per diners - els mendicants i el dergat ol País Valencià", Valencia, 1998; "Carmel in Medieval Catalonia", Leider, 1999. She is considered the foremost authority on the Franciscans and Carmelites in the medieval Crown of Aragon, and continues to work in this area.

WEIS, Dominique – Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia Dominique Weis is internationally recognized for her insightful research on the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth’s mantle with major impact on our understanding of the world’s major Large Igneous Provinces, mantle plumes and arcs, including Kerguelen Archipelago, Hawaiian Islands, and Cascades. Her research has elucidated a crucial relationship between ocean island composition and deep mantle processes. Her work crosses traditional domains of Earth science to encompass pioneering studies tracking the source and fate of metals in the environment.

Dominique Weis est reconnue dans le monde entier pour ses recherches perspicaces sur la composition chimique et isotopique du manteau terrestre, qui a un impact fondamental pour l’étude des grandes provinces magmatiques, des panaches mantelliques et des arcs volcaniques – notamment l’Archipel des îles Kerguelen, Hawaii et les volcans des Cascades. Sur Hawaii, son modèle montre une relation entre la composition des îles et les processus dans le manteau profond. Sa recherche transcende aussi les domaines classiques des sciences de la Terre avec des études pionnières traçant la source et la distribution des métaux dans l’environnement.