MCCANCE, Dawne – Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba Dawne McCance is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar and critic. Her innovative and integrative research engages religion, bioethics, feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, architecture, animal and disability studies, and the history of academic freedom. As the eighteen-year Editor of Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, she published multiple interviews with leading scholars, organized four major international interdisciplinary conferences, and established Mosaic in Europe and North America as a pathbreaking critical forum.

Dawne McCance est une chercheuse et critique interdisciplinaire de renommée internationale. Ses recherches novatrices et intégrées portent sur la religion, la bioéthique, le féminisme, la philosophie, la psychanalyse, la critique littéraire, l’architecture, les études sur les animaux et les personnes handicapées et l’histoire de la liberté académique. En tant que rédactrice en chef depuis dix-huit ans de Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, elle a publié de nombreuses entrevues avec d’éminents chercheurs, organisé quatre grandes conférences interdisciplinaires internationales et fait de Mosaic un forum critique et innovant en Europe et en Amérique du Nord.

Kevin McCann is a leading theoretical ecologist that studies the role of biological structure in mediating the sustainability and functioning of whole ecosystems. His research has played a leading role in understanding the role species interaction strengths play in mediating the stable functioning of food webs. McCann is recently focusing his attention on sustainability under global change, working in fisheries, agro-ecosystems, human microbiome, and food production.

Kevin McCann est un théoricien de l’écologie qui s’intéresse au rôle joué par les structures biologiques dans la pérennité et le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Ses recherches ont été déterminantes pour comprendre l’importance des forces d’interactions dans le maintien d’un fonctionnement stable des réseaux trophiques. Récemment, McCann a concentré ses efforts sur la pérennité des écosystèmes dans le contexte des changements globaux, en travaillant notamment sur les pêcheries, les agro-écosystèmes, le microbiome humain et la production alimentaire.

Long Citation (for publication and press release) Dr. Edward McCauley is among the most productive and imaginative ecologists nationally and internationally, and is one of the few people who have undertaken groundbreaking research in both theoretical and empirical ecology. He has established mechanisms underlying the presence and absence of cycles in population size in several species, concentrating on zooplankton and algae as a model system. He has also developed models that provide the best predictions of the impacts of nutrient addition on the diversity and abundance of algae in lakes and has shown how the special characteristics of flowing water affect ecological interactions in streams and rivers. Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony) Dr. McCauley is among the most productive and imaginative ecologists nationally and internationally, and is one of the few people who have undertaken groundbreaking research in both theoretical and empirical ecology. He has established mechanisms underlying the presence and absence of cycles in population size in several species, concentrating on zooplankton and algae as a model system.

John William McConkey, Department of Physics, University of Windsor, is a physicist who has consistently demonstrated creativity and skill in designing and carrying out leading edge experiments involving electron-atom (molecule) collisions. He is recognized internationally as a world leader, and his data, covering many different types of electron interactions, are regarded as standards in the field. His work has demonstrated a keen awareness of the needs of the wider scientific community in addition to being carefully chosen to have maximum impact on the development of understanding in his own field at the most basic level. Recently, he has developed novel techniques to study the fragmentation of atmospherically important molecules via very specific dissociation channels.

Peter Joseph McCormick, Professor, Department of Philosophy, at the University of Ottawa, has made significant scholarly contributions in two areas of critical reflection on the perennially strained relations between philosophy and the arts. His books on rational interpretation, modernity and aesthetics, philosophical problems of poetics, and the appraisal of claims about the nature of language in modern poetry have substantially clarified the cognitive, affective, and pragmatic aspects of literary works of art. Conversely, these books have also demonstrated how understanding some literary artworks forces major conceptual revisions in many antecedent philosophical accounts of knowledge, emotion, and action.

Kathy McCoy is an internationally recognized leader in the field of microbiome and health research. She has made fundamental discoveries highlighting how the maternal and early life microbiome instructs development and function of the immune system. Her basic discoveries have also been instrumental in defining the mechanisms by which the microbiome regulates immune responsiveness during cancer immunotherapy.

Kathy McCoy est une chercheuse de renommée internationale dans les domaines du microbiome et de la santé. Ses découvertes fondamentales ont démontré le rôle déterminant du microbiome maternel et néonatal dans le développement et le fonctionnement du système immunitaire. De plus, ses études novatrices sur le rôle du microbiome dans la réponse aux traitements anticancéreux ont permis d’élucider des mécanismes fondamentaux par lesquels le microbiome module et régit la réponse à l’immunothérapie.

Susan A McDaniel has transformed sociology in Canada. She has devoted her considerable scholarly energies to rethinking, reconceptualizing and realigning the ways in which social structural constraints impinge on human social life most intimately. She has been a pioneer in studying arenas of human activity: illegal abortion, sexual assault and harassment, childbearing from women's point of view, women's work-related health issues, women's participation in technological innovation. Her most important contribution, however, is in her involved, passionate, and yet sharply analytical frameworks, frameworks which are generating unconsidered research hypotheses.

Arthur Bruce McDonald, Professor of Physics, Queen's University, has long been interested in the basic interactions between particles inside the atomic nucleus. He has performed many experiments designed to reveal the charge independence of nuclear forces in light nuclei. His interest in reflection symmetry led to a more precise determination of nuclear weak forces. He is now addressing the solar neutrino problem - too few neutrinos from the sun - by directing the construction of a major laboratory to detect neutrinos deep underground in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. His good judgement in choosing research endeavors, his exceptional skill in devising and building apparatus for difficult experiments, and his ability to encourage colleagues has long been recognized in Canada and internationally.

Christie McDonald has made major contributions to the theory and practice of both critical theory and interdisciplinary studies within the humanities. Based in the literary domain (as a respected expert in eighteenth-century French literature), she has consistently related her textual analyses to larger theoretical concerns, particularly in the fields of philosophy and music. Her recent work brings together anthropology, art history, political science, and the 'everyday' in a complex and important theorizing of the notion of 'change' in our culture.

Long Citation Ronald McElhaney is an international leader in research on the roles of lipids in biological membranes. He demonstrated that physical properties of lipids determine the permeability of membranes and modulate the activity of proteins. His work on the phase behaviour of lipids has direct relevance to the role of lipid rafts in cell signalling. His research has provided key insights into the mechanisms by which antimicrobial peptides disrupt bacterial membranes providing the basis for design of effective antimicrobial agents. He is a Fellow of the Biophysical Society (USA) and received the prestigious Avanti Award in Lipids from the Biophysical Society. Short Citation Ronald McElhaney, an international leader in research on the roles of lipids in biological membranes, has demonstrated that physical properties of lipids determine the permeability of membranes and modulate the activity of proteins. His research has provided key insights into the mechanisms by which antimicrobial peptides disrupt bacterial membranes providing the basis for design of effective antimicrobial agents.

LONG Dr. Grant McFadden is one of the most prominent figures in his field of virology, a view shared not only by many colleagues in Canada but by eminent virologists worldwide. His numerous scientific contributions and his many novel insights, shared so generously with colleagues, have had a huge impact on fundamental understanding of the molecular biology of DNA viruses and on virus and host-cell interactions. The four areas of his most significant contributions might be summarized as: (1) The discovery and analysis of multiple classes of virus-encoded virokines and viroceptors, (2) The discovery of inhibitors of apoptosis encoded by poxviruses, (3) The analysis of poxvirus molecular biology, and (4) The discovery of novel anti-immune mechanisms of poxviruses. His work and the numerous accolades it has generated have focused an international spotlight on Canadian biological science and, more generally, on Canadian research accomplishments. SHORT Grant McFadden is one of the most prominent figures in the field of virology. His scientific contributions include the discovery and analysis of multiple classes of virus-encoded virokines and viroceptors, the discovery of inhibitors of apoptosis encoded by poxviruses and the discovery of a novel anti-immune mechanisms of poxviruses.