Barbara Neis’ ground-breaking contributions to research and knowledge mobilization on the social and environmental issues facing coastal communities have had world-wide impact. She has helped explain why fish stocks collapse; shown how fishermen’s ecological knowledge can inform science and coastal governance; advanced our understanding of gender and fisheries; carried out community-engaged research on marine and coastal occupational health and is now studying the consequences of extended commuting for work.

L’apport exceptionnel de Barbara Neis à la recherche et à la collecte d’informations concernant les problèmes sociaux et environnementaux auxquels se heurtent les collectivités maritimes a eu des répercussions à l’échelle mondiale. La chercheuse a contribué à expliquer pourquoi les stocks de poissons tendent à diminuer et comment les connaissances écologiques des pêcheurs peuvent être utiles pour la gouvernance côtière et la science. Barbara Neis a aussi éclairé les rapports entre les sexes dans le secteur de la pêche et participé à des recherches sur la santé des travailleurs exerçant des métiers maritimes et côtiers. Actuellement, elle étudie les effets des déplacements chez les travailleurs ayant à parcourir de longues distances pour se rendre au travail et en revenir.

H.V. Nelles' opus consists of five books and 16 articles, all unfailingly marked by a writing style and conceptual force that is truly Creightonian, by massive research, and by the happy gift of new ways of looking at old questions. Nelles' major work, "The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines & Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1911" was a brilliant and path-breaking work that contributed substantially to the study of economics, business, politics and history, that sharply altered the usual views of Canadian-American relations and forced a re-interpretation of standard accounts of Ontario's relations with the federal government. His current work has expanded in focus and looks at the development of electric utilities in Canada and at Canadian investment abroad. The results to date confirm Nelles' stature as the very ablest of the younger generation of Canadian historians.

Charmaine Nelson received her PhD in Art History from the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on postcolonial and black feminist scholarship, critical (race) theory, Trans Atlantic Slavery Studies and Black Diaspora Studies. She has expanded the canon of art history to include race and representation, in particular the representation of Black female subjects in Western art, and the visual culture of slavery.

Charmaine Nelson a reçu son doctorat en histoire de l'art de l'Université de Manchester. Ses recherches portent sur la recherche postcoloniale et féministe noir, la théorie critique, et études de l'esclavage transatlantique et de la diaspora noire. Elle a élargi le canon de l'histoire de l'art d’inclure la race et de la représentation, en particulier la représentation des sujets féminins noirs dans l'art occidental, et la culture visuelle de l'esclavage.

Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His research has changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today. ------------------ NESBITT, H. Wayne –Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His major papers between 1978 and 1995 address the relations between chemical weathering of the crust, and recent and ancient climatic conditions (of great importance to the global warming debate). These papers have changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today. Most of his research since 1994 addresses the detailed reactions at mineral surfaces using modern surface sensitive probes. These most recent studies are fundamental to all recent dissolution studies of minerals in aqueous solution.

As an ecologist, Josh Neufeld characterizes microbial communities in terrestrial, aquatic, and host-associated habitats. By developing and combining cultivation-dependent and molecular techniques, his lab explores the “microbes that matter” to connect these novel microorganisms with the important roles that they play in their communities. His passion for microbiology and its communication has resulted in authorship of a microbiology textbook, multiple teaching awards, and service as Chief Editor for The ISME Journal.

Josh Neufeld, en tant qu’écologiste, caractérise les communautés microbiennes dans les habitats terrestres, aquatiques et associés à l’hôte. En développant et en combinant des techniques moléculaires et dépendantes de la culture, son laboratoire explore les « microbes qui comptent » afin de faire le lien entre ces nouveaux micro-organismes et les rôles importants qu’ils jouent au sein de leurs communautés. Sa passion pour la microbiologie et sa communication l’ont amené à rédiger un manuel de microbiologie, à recevoir de nombreuses récompenses pour son enseignement et à être rédacteur en chef de la revue scientifique ISME.

Neil Nevitte is one of the most distinguished comparative political scientists of his generation. A leader in the long-running Canadian Election Surveys, one of the greatest empirical social science projects in Canadian history, Nevitte developed the technique of examining the framework of values that shapes electoral choice and has designed a widely acclaimed system to detect electoral fraud in fragile democracies.

Dwight Newman is one of the world’s leading experts on constitutional law and Indigenous rights. A Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair, Dr. Newman is the foremost scholar on the Canadian doctrine of the duty to consult Aboriginal peoples. A noted public intellectual, Dr. Newman’s work has been cited repeatedly in scholarship, in several Supreme Court of judgments, and by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report.

Dwight Newman est l’un des grands experts du monde sur le droit constitutionnel et les droits des Indigènes. Professeur en droit et Chaire de recherche du Canada, Prof Newman est le plus grand spécialiste de la doctrine canadienne sur le devoir de consulter les peuples autochtones. Un illustre intellectuel public, les travaux du Prof Newman ont été cités à répétition dans l’érudition, dans plusieurs jugements de la Cour suprême, et par le rapport final de la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation.

Long Citation Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering for the chemical, petrochemical and oil industry. She pioneered a new method to determine the Co-C bond dissociation energy which helps to elucidate the role of Co in vitamin B12 catalysis. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which, the Avada process for the production of ethyl acetate, won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002. Short Citation Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002.

John Nichols is the most distinguished contemporary student of the Ojibwe language, the most widely spoken aboriginal language in Canada. He combines unparalleled fieldwork experience with extensive archival work. Dr. Nichols is virtually unique in the constellation of interpretive skills necessary to decipher this complex historical record. Moreover, he is committed to making this scholarship useful to contemporary Ojibwe communities and individuals. Dr. Nichols has prepared critical editions, dictionaries and philological papers which set the standard for linguistic and ethnohistoric work on non-Indo-European languages. His practical work as an expert witness in land claims cases, in preparing Ojibwe language teaching materials, and in bibliographic documentation of current work in Ojibwe all make a major contribution to Canadian society as well as to linguistic scholarship.