Paul Roazen is the leading student of the history of psychiatry in Canada and one of the most eminent scholars in his field in the world. In eight lucidly-written and thoroughly researched books already published and more in press, he has studied Freud's thought, his followers, his family and the way he analyzed his patients, and he has delved into the politics and histories - not history - of psychoanalysis. The Freud that emerges in his pages is a genius and a flawed character, a man linked to his time and ahead of it in many ways, but also one who made errors in theory and practice. Freud, to Roazen, is a human being. Roazen is a scholar of great distinction and enormous energy. He has had enormous impact on the history of psychoanalysis around the globe, so much so that the 'enfant terrible' has turned into the widely praised 'homme sage', the best informed and most important historian of psychoanalysis of our time. He fully merits inclusion in Canada's national academy.

Professor S.P. Rosenbaum's contributions to scholarship have been of major importance to English letters for more than twenty years. His articles and books have been at the forefront of critical discussion in his two fields of specialization: philosophy and literature and the British Bloomsbury group of writers and intellectuals. In the former his work on G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell are central to discussion of such central issues as ethics, philosophical realism and the logic of literary symbols, but it is perhaps his work in the latter field, the Bloomsbury group, that has established him as one of the most influential scholars of our generation. His membership in the Royal Society of Canada is overdue.

IAN ROSS, Department of English, University of British Columbia. With degrees from St. Andrews, Oxford, and Texas, Ross possesses a far-ranging knowledge of medieval, Renaissance, and Augustan Scottish literature. His "William Dunbar" is the standard book on that poet. His "Lord Kames and the Scotland of His Day" firmly relates the jurist, philosopher and literary critic to the culture of his time. Initially junior editor of the "Correspondence" volume in Clarendon Press's edition of the works of Adam Smith, Ross later assumed complete responsibility for the book. Subsequently he was one of the editors of "Essays on Philosophical Subjects" in the same edition. Ian Ross is a humane and versatile scholar.

Widely regarded as the pre-eminent child-clinical neuropsychologist in North America, Byron P. Rourke is known principally for his seminal contributions to theory and research on the neuropsychology of learning disabilities in children. These contributions have broken new ground in the areas of sub-typing, classification, etiology, prognosis, and neurodevelopmental theory. His best known work is that relating to the delineation of the syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD) and the 'white matter' model that he has proposed to account for its neurodevelopmental dimensions and dynamics. Adaptive, academic, and psychosocial manifestations of NLD in many forms of neurological disease, disorder, and dysfunction have been documented by him and by numerous investigators around the world.

An outstanding teacher and colleague, Dr. Saddlemyer is known internationally as an authority on Anglo-Irish literature, as the editor of definitive editions of the letters and plays of J. M. Synge, and as the author of numerous learned articles and reviews as well as of other scholarly works. She is Director of the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto and, among other distinguished appointments, is chairman fo the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature and member of the Committee on Anglo-Irish Manuscripts of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1975 she was Berg Visiting Professor at New York University. Her distinguished scholarship has brought honour to her native country.

In mid-career Professor Liora Salter has attained national pre-eminence (an international recognition) in two distinct venues: first, as a senior communications scholar in the academic community; and second, as a consultant to Canadian government departments and the author of many influential reports. Her accomplishments to date have changed the way we think and act in Canada in such diverse and important areas as broadcasting, telecommunications regulation, science and technology policy, the regulation of dangerous chemicals, and consultation between the public and government agencies. It is indeed remarkable for an individual to have an influence on so many areas of social concern.

Professor Savoie is a recognized authority on regional development. He is regularly consulted by the federal government and several provinces. Dr. Savoie has authored several widely acclaimed books with Canada's leading university presses and edited a number of important books. He has published articles in both English and French in national and international journals. In 1983 he founded the Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development and quickly gave it an international reputation as a leading centre of excellence in regional studies. Scholars from Canada, United States, France, Poland, Belgium and Australia have collaborated or held visiting status with the institute.

Derek Sayer, educated at the Universities of Essex and Durham, came to the University of Alberta in 1986 with full tenure. He has eight books to his name, three of them singly-authored monographs, and many articles and chapters. His work spans two fields; social theory and historical sociology. The quality and originality of his contributions to both have been recognized internationally across a variety of disciplines. He is founding editor of "The Journal of Historical Sociology" and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is forty years old.

Professor Richard J. Schoeck, of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, is a connoisseur of greatness: great books, great men, great scholarship. His joy in these things may account for the ease with which he accommodates a great variety of interests with his many professional duties. He has been an eminent figure in Renaissance studies for several years. His participation in the Thomas More project at Yale University has consolidated his prestige with many other scholars. Inseparable from his historical interests have been his extensive studies in contemporary literature. His great erudition is accompanied by a sensitive awareness of the relevance of the past to contemporary needs. As a dedicated teacher, he has long lavished his learning and his understanding on his students. There is no conflict for him between the demands of erudition and instruction. His has been the satisfaction of watching his own students awaken to the joys of the life of learning. His colleagues have shared the same benefits as his students and the campus dialogue has been greatly enriched by his presence.

Dr. Scobie is a distinguished critic of Canadian literature, and is also a recipient of the Governor-General's award for poetry. Much of his work concentrates on areas where literature intersects with other forms of discourse, including Cubist painting, popular song, and the writings of the theoretician, Jacques Derrida. In five important book-length studies, Dr. Scobie deals with a wide range of Canadian authors, whom he places in an international context through a comprehensive vision of developments in modem culture since the 1920's. There is a strong coherence between his criticism and the eighteen volumes of poetry he has published to date. He is also an energetic and effective ambassador for Canadian literature, especially in Europe.

Suresh P. Sethi, Eugene McDermott Professor of Operations Management and Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at The University of Texas at Dallas, has established a distinguished international reputation in a number of distinct scientific communities. Within the broad discipline of management, he has made pathbreaking contributions toward improving decision making in the functional areas of operations management, marketing, and finance, respectively, for his work in production planning and scheduling in manufacturing systems and inventory problem with incomplete information, dynamic control models in advertising and optimal consumption/investment problems. Within the broad discipline of industrial and systems engineering, he is world-renowned for his significant research on decision and forecast horizons in dynamic optimization problems, and on the development and use of optimal control theory to resolve important issues in management sciences. He has written 7 books and published nearly 400 research papers in the fields of manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, and optimization theory. He initiated and developed the doctoral programs in operations management at both University of Texas at Dallas and University of Toronto. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Production and Operations Management and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Sethi is a polymath and his contributions to knowledge have been recognized by honors that include General Motors Research Professorship at University of Toronto (1988-92), Erskin Fellow (New Zealand, 1991), C. Y. O'Connor Fellow (Australia, 1998), Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (1994), Award of Merit of the Canadian Operational Research Society (1996), NYAS Fellow (1999), IC2 Institute Senior Research Fellow (2000), IEEE Fellow (2001), INFORMS Fellow (2003), AAAS Fellow (2003), POMS Fellow (2005), Distinguished Alum of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2008), SIAM Fellow (2009), POMS President (2012), Alumni Achievement Award , Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (2015). Two conferences were organized and two books edited in his honor in 2005 and 2006.