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Dr. Maurice Yeates
Affiliation: Toronto Metropolitan University
Keywords: Urban, commercial, quantitative, GIS
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Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Queen's University, Maurice Yeates was previously the Head of that University's Department of Geography. He has an international reputation for his contributions to two areas which are of particular concern to both scholars and policy-makers - urbanization and regionalization. His research in these fields is marked to an unusual degree by bold imaginative conceptualization and methodological rigor.
In addition to numerous articles, he has written, alone or in collaboration, about ten books, some of which have gone into several editions and have been translated into several languages. His "Main Street", concerned with the Windsor to Quebec 'corridor' has attracted considerable attention, not only for its substantive contribution, but also as an example of the school of modern quantitative locational analysis.
Dr. T. Cuyler Young, Jr.
Affiliation: University of Toronto
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Professor T. C. Young, Jr.'s field-work and subsequent publications raised archaeological research in Western Iran (Iron Age) to a new plateau and was directly responsible for an explosion of field-work on the part of various foreign archaeological expeditions during the 1960's and 1970's. Young then (1970's & 1980's) went beyond this to define the longest and most detailed archaeological sequence in all of Western Iran covering a time span of 6,000 years from the Neolithic through to the Late Iron Age. No other individual scholar has made such a profound, sustained, and seminal contribution to the Archaeology of Western Iran.
Dr. Mark Zacher
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: International regimes, international organizations, United Nations system, theories of international cooperation
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Zacher has earned an international reputation for his studies on Canadian oceans policy and through his pathbreaking work on international management and collaboration. His co-authored volume on maritime pollution earned the American Society of International Law's Award for Preeminent Contribution to Scholarship (best book) in 1980, and was similarly recognized through the International Studies Association's Sprout Prize in 1981. His recent volume on the management of international commodity trade has received the Columbia University Press' Rickerd Prize. Zacher has, through co-authorships and graduate teaching, created a talented group of young Canadian scholars who are becoming leaders in their field.
Dr. Morris Zaslow
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Morris Zaslow, more than any other historian, has reminded Canadians that they are a Northern people, inhabitants of a country with special problems but a unique history. The first volume of "The Opening of the North" (1971) and the second volume "The Northward Expansion of Canada 1914-1967" (1988), demonstrated the dynamism of the concept of the North between 1870 and 1967. His history of the Geological Survey ("Reading the Rocks", 1975), his many articles and editions of original sources have illustrated the process of exploration and development. He is vice-president of the Champlain Society, former president of the Ontario Historical Society and has been editor for both organizations.
Dr. John Burbidge
Affiliation: Trent University
Keywords: G.W.F. Hegel, logical thinking, philosophy of nature, philosophical theology, German idealism, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, book repair
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John William Burbidge, Department of Philosophy, Trent University, is a dedicated educator, a distinguished scholar and an invaluable administrator. For over thirty years he has produced insightful, highly reflective contributions in such diverse fields as the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of history, the philosophy of language, theology and practical reasoning. He is internationally known for his work on Hegel, in recognition of which he was elected in 1988 to the presidency of the Hegel Society of America. His pioneer work on the Hegelian philosophy of chemistry earned him the esteem and gratitude of all other scholars in the area. His work on the philosophy of religion has taken exceptional notice of the relation between Western philosophic thinking and non-Christian religious traditions.
Dr. Martin Daly
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, homicide, family violence, family relations
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Martin Daly, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, made significant contributions to our understanding of behaviour and psychology in an evolutionary perspective, both through an influential textbook and by his research. His field studies of African and American desert rodents have helped elucidate the ecological reasons for behavioural diversity among similar animal species. Taking an evolutionary psychological perspective on interpersonal conflict, he has also collaborated in innovative research on human violence, discovering several previously unknown risk factors for child abuse and homicide, and demonstrating that such factors as unemployment, age and age disparity, and family composition affect the incidence of violence in different relationships differently.
Dr. Marcel Danesi
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Communication, culture, representation, language, nonverbal communication
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The most outstanding figure in general and applied semiotic studies in contemporary Canada, Marcel Danesi, Program in Semiotics, Victoria University, is recognized around the world for the originality of his theories, his humanistic approach to pedagogical sciences, and for his deep understanding of Vico on whom he is an undisputed authority. His work is characterized both by its depth and by its breadth, including Italian language and literature, pedagogical and linguistic theory (particularly as related to language and acquisition), Vico studies and semiotics. A true intellectual who is also a splendid teacher, he is an impressive and inspiring scholar.
Dr. Bernard Dickens
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Medical law, health law, bioethics, pulbic health law, reproductive health law
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Bernard M. Dickens
Bernard Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, is a leading analyst, author and educator in Canadian and international health law and bioethics. His scholarship builds on foundational publications on legal and ethical consent to medical treatment, confidentiality, infant, child and adolescent health care, health research and terminal care, while addressing advanced issues such as medically assisted reproduction, medically assisted death, tissue transplantation and biotechnology. He has been centrally involved in the preparation of codes of ethical and legal practice in research with human subjects at university, Canadian and international levels, and currently serves on World Health Organization bodies addressing organ transplantation and human cloning.
Dr. Patricia Fleming
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Printing history, Canadian books, print culture, histoire du livre, descriptive bibliography
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Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, has a distinguished international reputation as a historian of printing and publication. Her magisterial bibliographical investigations of Upper Canadian and Atlantic Canadian imprints have developed to new dimensions the historical and analytical study of Canadian books, demonstrating in impeccable and rich detail the contributions such study can make to our cultural and social history. The extraordinary scope and depth of her investigations have been recognized abroad as landmarks in bibliographical method and the study of printing history. The award of the prestigious Tremaine Medal in 1992 was a sign of the magnitude of her contribution to scholarship, and of her fruitful encouragement of academic colleagues, students, bibliographers, and historians of the book across Canada and beyond.
Roger Gibbins
Affiliation: Canada West Foundation
Keywords: Federalism, regionalism (western Canada), constitutional politics, aboriginal self-government, ideologies
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Roger Gibbins, Department of Political Science, The University of Calgary, is a leading figure in the study of Canadian politics. His early work on regionalism established him as a notable authority on western alienation in Canada, a reputation he has maintained with ongoing research. He was the first political scientist to engage in serious study of the contemporary aboriginal self-government movement. He is an acknowledged authority on federalism and the constitution. Through large-scale survey research, he has contributed to mapping the contours of ideology and political culture in Canada and several other countries. Finally, his widely used textbooks on Canadian government and ideology are helping to educate a generation of university and college students.
Dr. Joseph Kess
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: Psycholinguistics, psychology of language, information processing, natural language processing, mental dictionary
discourse analysis
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Joseph Kess, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, is an internationally respected scholar in the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. His broad range of knowledge of non- Indo-European languages such as Tagalog, Japanese, Motu (Papua New Guinea) as well as of several First Nations languages of British Columbia is truly impressive. Given his thorough linguistic training, he is an outstanding academic who combines a penetrating grasp of rather diverse languages with an admirable familiarity with current issues in general linguistic theory which together have enabled him to directly engage the pressing questions in psycholinguistic research today. There are few Canadian scholars who have been as committed to demonstrating the interdependence of psycholinguistic theory on language data, and their interactive role within the developing goals of the sciences of language.
Dr. David Ley
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Inner city, immigration, gentrification, landscapes of consumption, social polarization
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David Ley, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, is one of the most distinguished of contemporary social geographers and one of the most astute analysts of the Canadian city. Author of five books and of some seventy-five articles, he is among the most internationally known and respected of Canadian geographers. His work deals with the changing social fabric of the inner city and also raises important questions about representation, culture, and politics, and about the ways in which we know and enframe space. He has always balanced rich empirical content, practical relevance, and theoretical insight. His many publications constitute a remarkable record of an able mind long preoccupied with the social spaces of cities and with our ways of understanding them.
Joseph Magnet
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Law, constitution
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The research and writing of Joseph Eliot Magnet, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, an expert in constitutional law and language rights, covers a broad range of issues, including the Canadian Constitution, official languages in Canada, and health law. His research in language rights has informed major court decisions and his participation and litigation on behalf of minority groups has informed and enriched his scholarship. Author of a major constitutional law textbook, Constitutional Law of Canada, his work has had an impact on public and governmental thinking with regard to constitutional reform and minority language rights in Canada.
Dr. James Miller
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: native newcomer relations, reconciliation, treaties, residential schools
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James Miller, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, is one of Canada's most original and most distinguished historians. He is more than a competent scholar: he is one of those few historians who has redefined the field. He has managed this task while maintaining an active public life, serving his university and the historical profession in Canada, most notably as President of the Canadian Historical Association. Miller's notable publications include "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" which brought breadth and characteristic originality to nothing less than the history of Indian-white relations in northern North America over a 450 year period. He continued this work in his recent book on residential schools, "Shingwauk's Vision".
Dr. Christine Overall
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: applied ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of ageing and death
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Christine Overall, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, is an internationally recognized authority on the ethics of reproduction, including the issues arising out of new reproductive technologies. Her contributions to bioethics, and more generally, to applied philosophy, display clarity of analysis, incisiveness of argument, sensitivity to inter-disciplinary concerns, and an unwavering feminist commitment. She is a teacher of rare distinction and a respected newspaper columnist, and her work is imbued by the conviction that philosophy is indispensable to education for citizenship and that it can be made accessible to members of the general public.
Dr. Shana Poplack
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Sociolinguistics, linguistic variation, bilingualism, language change, minority languages
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Shana Poplack, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, has extended the concepts and techniques of linguistic variation theory in elucidating key problems of sociolinguistics. She enunciated and tested the first general syntactic constraints on code-switching in bilingual communities. Her field research on diaspora varieties of nineteenth-century African American English provided the first scientific evidence for the origins of Early Black English in contemporaneous regional dialects rather than in the creolization process. She clarified the relation between variability and function in Hispanic vernaculars and in Canadian French. Her controversial but ultimately sound work is characterized by the extensive collection of pertinent data, analytic rigour, and clarity of vision.
Dr. Ian Steele
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: Atlantic, Colonial, British Empire, Maritime
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Ian Kenneth Steele, Department of History, The University of Western Ontario, is an historian whose teaching and publications have resulted in a re-evaluation of accepted interpretations of colonial North American societies and cultures. His scholarly work has enriched our understanding of societal transformations wrought by overseas colonization as well as of early contact relations between Amerindians and Europeans. He has situated the military and political aspects of the eighteenth century struggle for Canada in a broader cultural context, emphasizing the differences in perceptions and values of all the participants. Consequently, colonial North American societies emerge more complex and their cultures more nuanced in our evaluations.
Dr. János Aczél
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Keywords: Functional equations, applications to the social sciences, applications to the behavioral sciences, dimensional analysis, theory of measurement
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Professor Aczél is an internationally known authority on functional equations. A number of his many papers have become standard references which every mathematician working on this subject uses repeatedly. He continues to be very active as can be seen from his list of publications. He recently published two books on functional equations. He was one of the founders of the new mathematical journal, "Aequationes Mathematicae" of which he is now Honorary Editor-in-Chief. He was also one of the founders of Comptes Rendus Math Reports of the Academy of Science (R.S.C.).
He has been working recently on applications of functional equations to the social and behavioral sciences, in particular to aggreation and utility theory.
Dr. Ian Affleck
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Condensed matter theory
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Ian K. Affleck, one of Canada's brightest theoretical physicists, has made his greatest contribution in the use of theoretical techniques from particle physics in condensed matter physics, and vice-versa. As exemplified by his fellowship in CIAR's Cosmology program and in their Superconductivity program, his insights have illuminated a number of different branches of physics, from early universe cosmology and string theory to superconductivity, and magnetic phase transitions in materials.
Dr. Albert Aguayo
Affiliation: McGill University
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Albert Aguayo developed an experimental technique (nerve grafting) to explore the complex interactions that exist among the components of the nervous system. In a series of small landmark experiments, he used this approach to define some of the interactions that occur in normal and abnormal nerves and to demonstrate the regenerative potential of the central nervous system. By proving that the responses of axons to injury depends on interactions that can be modulated, Albert Aguayo has evolved a novel approach to the study of recovery from injury and disease in parts of the nervous system where this was previously considered impossible.
Dr. Mustafa Akcoglu
Affiliation: University of Toronto
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Mustafa Akcoglu, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, has made outstanding contributions to ergodic theory, a branch of mathematics which has developed from the study of Gibbs and Boltzmann on the dependence between time and space averages in a physical system. Professor Akcoglu has recently obtained the proof of an ergodic theorem in Lp, a most important result long-sought for by mathematicians. The success of his original and ingenious methods make him one of the world's leading ergodic theorists.
Dr. A. John Alcock
Affiliation: National Research Council
Keywords: Lasers, nonlinear optics, diode-pumped lasers
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Dr. Alcock's research is concerned with the development of high powered lasers and their application to the production and study of high density, high temperature plasmas. He is recognized as a pioneer in the area of laser instrumentation and laser diagnostics preparing the way for inertially-confined fusion experiments. As head of the NRC Laser and Plasma Physics Section, he has led his colleagues to the forefront in these fields within Canada and on the world scene As author and co-author, he has published more than eighty papers and his work has provided valuable scientific support for an indigenous high powered laser industry.
Dr. Charles Alcock
Affiliation: University of Toronto
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Professor Alcock is a distinguished scientist. His work in the thermodynamics of metallic compounds and solutions, as well as in the kinetics of high-temperature processes has earned him an international reputation. He has published about 110 papers, mostly in these two areas, and is the author of a book and co-author of another. Recognition of his high profile by his peers is also attested by the number of important activities (international commissions, committees and research projects) which he has directed in the immediate past. His well-known interests in the arts, combined with a very pleasant personality, make him a well rounded fellow.
Howard Alper
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Catalysis
Organic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
Polymers
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Noted for the breadth and diversity of his research contributions in organic and organometallic chemistry, Dr. Howard Alper has yet maintained a clear focus on the development of new synthetic pathways to organic compounds. His work, which is distinguished by a high degree of experimental ingenuity and skill, has pioneered in the application of phase transfer catalysis to organometallic chemistry and in the development of new synthetic applications catalyzed by transition metal complexes. Alper has invented novel carbonylation-ring expansion reactions and cycloaddition reactions of heterocycles with heterocumulenes. Both of these processes can be achieved in high enantiomeric excess using appropriate chiral ligands. He has also made seminal contributions in the areas of polymers (synthesis and functionalization) and clays.
In addition, Dr. Alper has represented the Royal Society of Canada in the following capacities:
President --- The Royal Society of Canada, 2001-2003.
President-Elect --- The Royal Society of Canada, 2000-2001.
President --- Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of Canada, 1999-2001.
Vice-President --- Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of Canada, 1995-98.
Chair --- Partnership Group for Science and Engineering, 1995-99.
Co-Chair --- InterAcademy Panel, 2007-2013 (now called InterAcademy Partnership)
Co-Chair --- Royal Society of Canada – Academia Lincea Workshop on “Science for Environmentally Sustainable Development”, 2004.
Co-Chair --- InterAmerican Network of Academies of Science, 2004-2007
Member --- Organizing Committee, Canada and the World-Agenda 2000, Royal Society of Canada, Nov. 1992.
Member --- International Relations Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1991-94.
Member --- Fellowship Review Committee Royal Society of Canada, 1990-93
Member --- Council, Academy III, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-92.
Member --- Program Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-92.
Member --- Rutherford Memorial Award Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-92.
Member --- Committee on the Reorganization of the Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Canada, 1988-89.
Convenor --- Chemistry Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 1989-93.