Dr. Lachapelle has contributed in a sustained and major way to the development and dissemination of satellite-based navigation technology in Canada and internationally. Through his innovative research and technology transfer activities, he has provided leadership for Canada to be recognized as truly excellent in this new technology.

Y. K. Cheung, currently Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong, is an authority of international reputation in the field of computational mechanics. He is one of the pioneers of the Finite Element Method, the originator of the Finite Strip Method and co–author and author, respectively, of the first books on the two subjects. His achievements are documented by ten books, five chapters of books, over 400 publications, many national and international awards, numerous keynote addresses and several honorary doctoral degrees.

The Honourable Fred Kaufman is an outstanding Canadian, learned in the law, committed to public service and to fundamental constitutional values. He practiced criminal law for many years prior to his appointment as a Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal. Since retiring from the court he has served on several public inquiries and investigations.

Ranjan Roy has devoted much of his career to exploring social dimensions in the etiology, management and treatment of sufferers of chronic pain disorders. In his eleven books and many chapters and articles, Roy has been single-minded in his efforts to view the patient as a person. His major contribution has been to demonstrate the central role of the family in all facets of illness.

A.J. Ray is a historian and historical geographer whose work reflects his broad interests in aboriginal-white relations, the fur-trade, and the adaptive capacities of aboriginal peoples. He has also contributed importantly to the understanding of disease and population decline, diet, and the impact of agriculture and industrialization on the aboriginal-white relationship.

Donald McRae is an internationally renowned scholar with a prodigious output in the fields of international maritime boundaries and international trade regulation. This work has shaped Canada's own position on several maritime boundaries disputes, and has clarified how states and scholars understand the interaction of law and policy in this domain. He has advanced new views of how international trade disputes should be settled.

Dr. Susan Lederman is a world leader in the fields of tactile and haptic perception. She has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human touch. Working with the Bank of Canada and the CNIB, Susan Lederman has made it possible for visually impaired people to identify the denomination of new banknotes by hand using a code of raised texture patches.

Sneja Gunew is a leading international scholar of postcolonial and multicultural feminist cultural studies. She has emerged as one of Canada's most thought-provoking interpreters of how comparative multicultural studies function in global and national contexts. Her contributions also give unprecedented voice to both the longings and the resistances of ethnic minority groups and women marginalized by traditional discourses.

Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey is a scholar whose innovations have won him a place among the most distinguished architectural historians of the present day. Currently du Prey is preparing an interactive electronic publication which demonstrates, in lucid and accessible language, his innovative use of recent and emerging technologies in the service of history.

A Fellow of the RSC, James P. Carley is an expert on the history of the book, focusing on the contents of English libraries in the late medieval and early modern periods. His groundbreaking edition and analysis of the libraries of King Henry VIII appeared in 2000 and 2004. The first of his two-volume edition, translation and study of the De uiris illustribus by the Tudor humanist John Leland was published in 2010. Growing out of his Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge in 2011 will be a three-volume account of the early history of Lambeth Palace Library.

Membre de la Société royale du Canada, James P. Carley est spécialiste de l’histoire du livre et s’intéresse tout particulièrement au contenu des bibliothèques anglaises du bas Moyen-Âge et du début de la période moderne. Son analyse des bibliothèques d’Henri VIII est parue en 2000 et 2004. En 2010, il a publié le premier de deux tomes consacré à la traduction commentée de l’ouvrage De uiris illustribus/On Famous Men, de l’humaniste John Leland, de l’époque Tudor. Enfin, les conférences Sandars sur la bibliographie qu’il a présentées à l’University of Cambridge en 2011 feront l’objet d’une publication en trois volumes sur l’histoire des débuts de la Lambeth Palace Library.

BRODIE, Janine - Department of Political Science, University of Alberta Janine Brodie’s influential research program engages core challenges in Canadian politics, social life and public policy. Her prodigious and innovative work has generated new concepts and streams in inquiry, particularly in the areas of gender, representation, regionalism, citizenship, social policy, globalization, and governance. Dr. Brodie's interdisciplinary social science scholarship illuminates the society we live in and the society we aspire to create.

Les recherches influentes de Janine Brodie portent sur les grands enjeux de la politique canadienne, de la vie sociale et des politiques publiques. Ses travaux considérables et innovants ont engendré de nouveaux concepts et modes d’investigation, particulièrement en matière de genre, de représentation, de régionalisme, de citoyenneté, de politique sociale, de mondialisation et de gouvernance. Les recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences sociales de Janine Brodie éclairent la société dans laquelle nous vivons et la société à laquelle nous aspirons.