Five researchers receive Killam Awards

The Canada Council has announced this year’s recipients of the Killam Prizes. The five awards, each valued at $100,000, will be presented at a dinner and ceremony on June 2 in Toronto. This year’s winners are:

Dr James Arthur (natural sciences). Arthur is a leading mathematician at the Univ of Toronto, an expert in the fields of representation theory and automorphic forms and is responsible for many fundamental discoveries over a 30-year career. He received his BSc and MSc from U of T and his PhD from Yale Univ. After spending nine years in the US at Yale, Duke Univ and Princeton Univ, he returned to the U of T in 1979 as a professor. In 1999, he was the first mathematician to win the Gold Medal for Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

Dr Will Kymlicka (social sciences). Kymlicka is a Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s Univ in the department of philosophy and a Canada Research Chair holder in political philosophy. An expert in citizenship issues in multi-ethnic democratic societies, he received a BA in philosophy and politics from Queen’s Univ and a DPhil in philosophy from Oxford Univ.

Dr Jean-Jacques Nattiez (humanities). Nattiez is a pioneer in the field of music semiology at the Univ of Montreal where he has taught since 1970. He holds masters degrees in literature and linguistics from the Univ d’Aix-en-Province and a doctorate in musical semiology from the Univ de Paris VIII-Vincennes.

Dr Janet Rossant (health sciences). Rossant is a senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and a professor at the Univ of Toronto’s department of molecular genetics and department of obstetrics/gynaecology. Her research centres on understanding the genetic control of normal and abnormal development in the early mouse embryo.

Dr Kerry Rowe (engineering). Rowe is a professor of civil engineering and VP research at Queen’s Univ. An expert in areas such as hydrogeology, soil reinforcement, geosynthetics and waste management and containment, he received a BSc in computer science, BE in civil engineering and PhD in geotechnical engineering from the Univ of Sydney.