Dr. William Callahan's pre-eminent work in the field of Spanish history, and in particular of Spanish Church history, spans more than three decades and is remarkable not only for its superb quality but for its prodigious quantity. Historians who master a second language and culture to the degree that Dr. Callahan does, offer to their field a special perceptivity and depth of understanding which is rare and extremely valuable. The fact that much of his work has been translated into Spanish is indicative of the value which his colleagues attach to his careful research and his clear judgements.

Patricia Demers of the University of Alberta has performed major service to the humanities as Chair of her department and Vice-President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. However her best claim to distinction is as a scholar of range and subtlety. Her critical studies of early women writers, her literary biography of the prominent eighteenth-century woman of letters, Hannah More, are models of balanced investigative scholarship, and her critical editions of early works for children are landmarks in the serious study of formative literary works. She has now returned to her primary area, the renaissance, with a major study in progress of Women Writers of the English Renaissance.

Robert Evans is one of the founders of the field of health economics. Among his many contributions to the field are the ideas that the demand for health care can be significantly induced by physicians, and that universal health care insurance financed by taxes is not only more equitable but also more cost- effective than private health insurance. He is the author of numerous articles and a well-known text, and is a coeditor of a very influential volume on the health of populations. His research has had a very significant impact on Canadian public policy in the realm of health care.

Carole Gerson has become the single most important scholarly voice in the recovery of the history of early Canadian women writers which has been undertaken in the past fifteen years. She has written on the history of taste, on institutions, individual writers, and the establishing of canons; she has also edited significant anthologies and created important repositories of electronic information for scholars and students in the field. Her continuing research is informed by contemporary literary questions that have radically altered our understanding of the beginnings and development of Canadian literature. Her current work enters the lively debate on popular authors and contemporary culture.

Michael Lambek is a leading anthropologist of his generation who has significantly advanced our knowledge of rituals, local knowledge and memory, Africa, anthropological methods and theory. His publications include 2 major books, several in edited collections, and 50 book chapters and articles in leading anthropological journals. His work is widely acclaimed for the depth and sensitivity of his ethnographic research, for the theoretical sophistication of his writings, and for the sustained originality of his work. It is at the cutting edge of analytical, conceptual, and ethnographic concerns in sociocultural anthropology.

Dr. Bryan Palmer is one of Canada's most prominent historians on the international scene. Best known abroad for his two books on E. P. Thompson, he is also a prominent participant in methodological and theoretical debates about historical writing. A prolific author, he has also contributed significantly as review editor and editor of the journal Labour/le Travail. In addition, he has supervised some 50 graduate theses in his thirteen years at Queen's. A vigorous prose style and critical stance has also made him a reviewer of considerable stature and a controversialist of note in a field all too often dismissed as bland.

Mary Lynn Stewart, Professor Emeritus, Departments of History and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University, is one of the foremost historians of the Western European welfare state whose work analyzes the lives of working- class men and women in nineteenth and twentieth century France. Her early work significantly increased understanding of political and social activism in the French provinces before and during the Second Republic. Her subsequent work focused on protective legislation. Her pioneering challenge of the prevailing view that these laws protected women and led to universal legislation has contributed to the integration of gender issues and women's work with more traditional concerns of economics and politics in the study of welfare legislation. Her two most recent books examined the bio-politics and education of French girls and women about their bodies in the Third Republic and the marketing of haute couture to French women in the Interwar years. She is currently preparing a book tentatively entitled Gender, Generation and Journalism in Interwar France.

John Willinsky examines the social bases of literacy and explores ways to create a more critically literate society. He has a deep understanding of the relationship between and among language, literacy, technology and the curriculum. His work on education theory and practice has affected schools and changed the teaching of his colleagues. He has produced work on language teaching in the schools, the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary, the legacy of imperialism in education and the possibilities of the new technologies. His current work focuses on public knowledge and the social sciences.

Arch Woodside, Professor of Marketing, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, is one of the world's leading authorities on marketing and consumer psychology. Among his 350 academic journal articles (published in some 35 different major scientific journals) and conference proceedings papers and 24 books, he has contributed many articles identified in the scientific literature as seminal studies. His citations count places him in the 99.99 percentile among full professors. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the Society for Marketing Advances. He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Marketing at 12 universities in Canada, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Colombia, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, the United States and the United Kingdom. Since 1974, he has served as the editor of a leading academic journal in his field, the Journal of Business Research.

Axel Becke is a scientific leader noted for his work in the application of Density Functional Theory (DFT) to molecules. His computational technique (NUMOL) achieved a level of computational precision unmatched by others and it remains a unique and powerful DFT benchmarking tool. His discrete integration procedure has been adopted in whole or in part by a large number of software developers/vendors who have modified conventional programmes to accommodate DFT. For his work, Dr. Becke has received a number of awards including the Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the Noranda Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Queenès University Prize for Excellence in Research, and the Schroedinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists. He receives an impressively large number of citations for his publications. However, the real impact of his work is evident in the numerous areas where chemists and physicists have used his methodologies to compute molecular properties of a vast number of complex molecular systems to a degree of accuracy which only a few years ago would have been unthinkable. Research colleagues describe his research contributions as ‘marvelous examples' of theoretical chemistry at its best.

We have lived through a century of dramatic change, as the human population increased and the human impact on the environment of our planet intensified. From his first work at Guelph in 1971, Josef Cihlar recognized the power of modern observational techniques in the urgent task of accurately quantifying changes in the most important components of the Earth System and our life support systems. Cihlar has been a leader in Canadian and international global change programmes in using satellite observations to precisely quantify change in the biosphere and surface systems, soil and water. He has received a host of special awards for his massive contributions and has been a leader in Canada in this vital field of our modern science.