Julien Payne is among the very best known of Canadian academic lawyers for his many publications, his lecturing, and his support over the years for law reform in family law both by the federal government and by the provinces. It is not untrue to say that his is a household name in family law in Canada, and he has possessed that reputation for over thirty years. His pioneering work in advocating reform in the law of divorce, custody and access, and the processes for dealing with family problems in our society, has been recognized not only nationally, but internationally, where he is a frequent lecturer.

Linda Pearse fuses insight from the performance of early art music with archival research to create intercultural artistic works and scholarly publications that offer opportunities for impactful public-facing outreach. As the Canada Research Chair in Music, Contact, and Conflict, Pearse’s interdisciplinary research network cultivates nuanced understandings of musical and sonic entanglements between early modern cultures, and related aspects of identity and intercultural relationship in ways that resonate with contemporary issues.

Linda Pearse associe les connaissances tirées de l’interprétation de la musique artistique ancienne à des recherches archivistiques pour créer des oeuvres artistiques interculturelles et des publications qui offrent des possibilités de sensibiliser le public. En tant que titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada sur la musique, les contacts et les conflits, le réseau de recherche interdisciplinaire de Linda Pearse cultive une compréhension nuancée des enchevêtrements musicaux et sonores entre les cultures du début de l’ère moderne, ainsi que des aspects connexes de l’identité et des relations interculturelles, d’une manière qui résonne avec les questions contemporaines.

Long Citation Dr. Keir Pearson is a leading authority on the neurobiology of locomotion. His research has identified key principles related to the neural control of walking in invertebrates and vertebrates. These contributions have been germane for developing strategies for enhancing functional recovery after spinal cord injury and for the design of walking robots. Dr. Pearson has written many influential manuscripts and book chapters, and is recognized internationally for his ability to communicate science to a wide audience. He holds a Canada Research Chair in movement physiology, and is Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. Short Citation Keir Pearson is a leading authority on the neurobiology of locomotion. His research has identified key principles related to the neural control of walking in invertebrates and vertebrates. These contributions have been germane for developing strategies for enhancing functional recovery after spinal cord injury and for the design of walking robots. Dr. Pearson has written many influential manuscripts and book chapters, and is recognized internationally.

Jamie Peck of the University of British Columbia is one of the most prolific and highly cited geographers in the world, with over 200 publications including 13 books. His main contributions have been in labour studies, urban political economy, critical policy analysis and neoliberalism and they have been highly influential in sociology and urban studies as well as in geography. He is a leading advocate for spatially-sensitive analysis across the economic sciences. His work has been widely reprinted and translated into more than a dozen languages.

Isabel Pedersen is Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media, and Culture (tier II). Her work broadly questions the way in which future-proposed technology affects human identity and culture. Digital technologies are often predicted, invented, adopted and even celebrated before we fully understand their societal impacts. While most research in the realm of digital media investigates the technological aspects of digital innovation, Dr. Pedersen’s work uniquely focuses on understanding the impacts of the digital age on our lives, culture, art, and social practices.

Isabel Pedersen est titulaire d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la vie numérique, les médias et la culture (niveau 2). Ses travaux remettent en question la façon dont les nouvelles technologies affectent l’identité et la culture humaines. Bien souvent, les technologies numériques sont anticipées, inventées, adoptées et même célébrées avant même que nous comprenions pleinement leur impact sur la société. Tandis que la plupart des recherches menées dans le domaine des médias numériques étudient les aspects technologiques de l’innovation numérique, les travaux de la Dre Pedersen se concentrent exclusivement sur la compréhension des impacts de l’ère numérique sur nos vies, notre culture, l’art et les pratiques sociales.

Jim Peebles has been the key person responsible for the recent development of the study of the early universe into a science. He has developed key tools in the development of observational tests of theories of the early universe, from the 3 degree microwave background to large scale correlations in the structure of the universe. His books and papers have been masterful in their presentation of the ideas in terms of simple, but penetrating physical arguments. His work has been largely responsible for the current explosion of interest in physical cosmology.

Andrew Pelling is a highly creative leader in the field of mechanobiology. His internationally acclaimed research has illuminated previously unknown biological pathways which enable living cells and tissues to be controlled and regulated through physical cues. These achievements have been well recognized with numerous distinctions and awards. Andrew has also established several start-up companies which are translating his fundamental research into biomedical applications in healthcare, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Andrew Pelling s’est imposé comme figure de proue dand le domaine de la mécanobiologie, secteur auquel il apporte sa vaste créativité. Ses recherches de renommée internationale ont révélé des voies biologiques encore inconnues qui permettent de contrôler et de réguler des cellules et des tissus vivants à l’aide de signaux physiques, réalisations qui ont été récompensées par de multiples prix et distinctions. Andrew Pelling a également fondé plusieurs petites entreprises dédiées aux applications biomédicales de ses recherches fondamentales dans les domaines de la santé, du génie tissulaire et de la médecine régénérative.

PELLETIER, Réjean - Department of Political Science, Université Laval Réjean Pelletier is a nationally and internationally renowned student of politics in Canada and Quebec. His highly original work, with its critical and comparative perspective, largely based on empirical studies of parliamentarianism, political parties, women in politics, Canadian federalism and political trust, has called many conventionally accepted ideas into question and ranked him as one of the leading researchers in these fields.

PELLETIER, Réjean - Département de science politique, Université Laval Réjean Pelletier est un chercheur de renommée nationale et internationale en politique québécoise et canadienne. Ses travaux sur le parlementarisme, les partis politiques, les femmes en politique, le fédéralisme canadien, et sur la confiance politique, largement basés sur des recherches empiriques, ont remis en cause bien des idées reçues dans ces domaines, ce qui en fait leur grande originalité. La perspective critique et comparative qu’il adopte le classe parmi les chercheurs de haut calibre sur ces sujets.

PELLETIER, Jerry - Department of Biochemistry, McGill University Dr. Pelletier is a world leader in protein synthesis and its dysregulation in cancer. He has held focused research programs integrating genetics, molecular biology, mouse cancer models and chemical biology, leading to mechanistic insight into this process as well as demonstrating that it is a druggable vulnerability of tumor cells. Several of his findings are textbook material and he is an advocate of basic research benefiting human health.

Le Dr. Pelletier est un chef de file dans le domaine de la synthèse protéique et de son dérèglement dans le cancer. Ses programmes de recherche qui combinent l'utilisation de la génétique, la biologie moléculaire, les modèles de cancer murins et la biologie chimique ont permis l'acquisition de connaissances remarquables au niveau de l'élucidation de son mécanisme. De plus il a démontré que ce processus représente un point de vulnérabilité important qui peut être ciblé dans le cancer. Plusieurs de ses découvertes se retrouvent dans les manuels scolaires et il prône l'utilisation de la recherche fondamentale afin d'améliorer la santé humaine.

The contributions of Richard Peltier to our knowledge of the earth's interior and the atmosphere through the application of rigorous fluid dynamics have been outstanding. In meteorology, he has, through sophisticated three-dimensional modelling, provided an understanding of nonlinear aspects of motions and waves, their behaviour and stability, and the onset of turbulence. In his studies of the earth's mantle, its viscosity, phase changes, conditions for large-scale convection and the mechanism of post-glacial rebound he is, without exaggeration, an acknowledged world leader.