Cheryl Misak has established an international reputation as one of the world's leading interpreters and defenders of the pragmatist tradition. Her reference point has been the philosophy of C. S. Peirce—the founder of pragmatism and the most important philosopher America has ever produced. She has provided the first systematic defense of Peirce's theory of truth, and most recently has extended her Peircean account of inquiry into domains where Peirce did not think it could go—that is, into ethics and politics. As a result, she has provided a valuable resource for an audience beyond philosophy in political and legal theory.

The work of Derek Nurse in historical linguistics and language change, as applied to the Bantu languages of eastern Africa, has produced new insights on the classification, historical reconstruction and typology of these languages. He has extended our knowledge of the varieties of change, and of the types of features that can be transferred from one language to another. He has done pioneering work on the interface of linguistics, archaeology, and history, and is the coauthor of two handbooks on the history of Swahili society and language that are standard reference works wherever the language is studied.

Jeffrey Reitz is a internationally recognized expert on immigration, ethnicity and race relations. His comparisons of immigrant experiences in Canada with those of their counterparts in the United States, Britain, Germany and Australia have provided important new insights into institutional policies and practices whichdetemine the success of immigrant's efforts to find prosperity in their new homes. One of the first scholars worldwide to incorporate quantitive survey and census data into such international comparisons, Reitz' methodologically rigorous reflects an interdisciplinary approach, combining sociology, economics and political science to produce new understandings of the challenges facing immigrants.

BASHEVKIN, Sylvia - Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Sylvia Bashevkin is our nation’s top authority in the study of women and politics. By employing a comparative framework and innovative research design, she has illuminated women’s political struggles and triumphs and promoted a lively public discussion of women in political life. Wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, and methodologically sophisticated, her work has made a significant contribution to political science, women’s studies, sociology, and public policy.

Sylvia Bashevkin est la plus haute autorité canadienne pour ce qui concerne le rapport des femmes à la politique. À l’aide d’un cadre comparatif et d’un modèle de recherche novateur, elle a éclairé les luttes politiques féminines et leurs triomphes et elle a stimulé le débat public sur la participation des femmes à la vie politique. Ses travaux de grande envergure, interdisciplinaires et fondés sur une méthodologie complexe, ont contribué de façon importante aux sciences politiques, aux études des femmes, à la sociologie et aux politiques publiques.

John Eyles is a leading social scientist, whose studies of the place to place variations in health and in the ways that people perceive health have served to heighten understanding of health care issues and related policy matters throughout Canada. He continues as a leader in research on the geography of health and on the relationships between environmental factors and health. His work informs many lines of ongoing debate about health care policy in Canada and many of his findings have been applied by provincial and federal agencies across the country.

Ernest B. Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Systems) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta has made outstanding contributions to scholarship as the author of four major bibliographies indispensable to research in Canadian Studies and, as founding director of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, began the transformation of Canada's printed heritage to microfiche and more recently to digital format, thus helping overcome barriers of scarcity and access to the full development of Canadian Studies. As a librarian, he was instrumental in founding other national research resources such as the Canadian Author's Manuscript Collection and the Canadian Architectural Archives, and has achieved international prominence and won numerous awards within the profession for contributions, innovation, and the promotion of library cooperation.

In 1962, following his discovery of the first O2+ salt, Neil Bartlett oxidized xenon and initiated Noble-Gas Chemistry. This was akin to the finding of a new element and changed our view of the Periodic Table of the Elements. His other many contributions to the chemistry of the elements at high-oxidation limits include room temperature syntheses of NiF62- and AgF4- salts. In 1996 he found a room temperature route to the efficient conversion of organic molecules to their perfluoro-relatives.

Dr. Thomas A. Brzustowski has made distinctive and lasting contributions to science and technology in Canada via activities in: scholarly research, teaching and academic administration; public policy on postsecondary education and knowledge based economic renewal; and outstanding leadership to the university research community as President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). An aeronautical and mechanical engineer, Dr. Brzustowski achieved international recognition for his pioneering research on combustion processes and flames. In October 1987, he joined the government of Ontario as Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities, the senior civil servant in charge of postsecondary education. His success led to a new and important role as Deputy Minister for the Premier's Council on Economic Renewal. He joined NSERC as president in 1995.

Professor Rita R. Colwell of the University of Maryland has had a remarkable research career in environmental microbiology; she has energetically promoted science at North American and International levels. Her work on the biota of estuarine waters and sediments, on bacterial and viral ecology, and on the fate of human pathogens in waters, has redefined the importance of these scientific areas in microbial ecology. Her research on the survival of the cholera vibrio, an important human pathogen, has been seminal. Her field work has brought relief to cholera-ravaged Bangladesh. She is currently Director of the National Science Foundation and Founding Director and President of the Maryland Biotechnology Institute and member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Jeff Dahn is recognized worldwide as Canada's most distinguished scientist in the field of advanced lithium batteries. He is one of the pioneer developers of the lithium-ion battery, which is now used worldwide in laptop computers and cellphones. His work forms the basis by which the reaction of lithium with graphitic and nanoporous carbons as negative electrodes, is understood.

David Dolphin's pioneering basic research in the photochemical behaviour of porphyrin have resulted in a far-reaching understanding of these biochemically important molecules. This knowledge helped spawn the technology for Vancouver-based QLT Photo Therapeutics, which is one of the largest biotech companies in the world. Currently, he and his colleagues are developing light-activated porphyrin-based drugs which are in human clinical trials to treat a variety of hyperproliferative diseases.