Bound signature books for citations for recipients fo honours given at Convocation, 1994-1999.

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. He wrote his memoir La Nuit or Night. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed El...

Chomsky, Noam, 1928-

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Avram Noam Chomsky (1928- ) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, author, lecturer and political activist. Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War, he established himself as a prominent critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Chomsky has become a profoundly influential voice on the left, lecturing widely and publishing numerous books on foreign policy, Mideast politics and related subjects. His self-professed commitment to freedom has ...

University of Guelph. Convocation.

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Shneiderman, Ben

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Professor of Computer Science and pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction. Ben Shneiderman was born on August 21, 1947 to Samuel and Eileen Shneiderman. His parents were Polish-born journalists who immigrated to New York from Paris in 1940 with their two-year-old daughter, Helen. While growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Shneiderman enjoyed stamp collecting, photography, building electronics projects, and playing baseball. During summers spent in the ...

Lipset, Seymour Martin

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American sociologist and political scientist. From the description of Seymour Martin Lipset papers, 1916-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123430062 ...

Lopata, Helena Znaniecka, 1925-2003

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Born October 1, 1925, Poznan, Poland; died February 12, 2003. Sociologist; Professor. Helena Beatrice Znaniecka Lopata was born in Poznan, Poland, on October 1, 1925, to Florian Znaniecki and Eileen Markley. When the Nazis entered Poland in September 1939, Helena and her mother, as members of the intelligentsia, were imprisoned in a concentration camp. By subterfuge, they later escaped to the United States. After arriving in the United States, Helena enrolled in Champaign Urbana High School, whe...

Switzer, Clayton Macfie, 1929-

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Burnet, Jean Robertson, 1920.

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Hamilton, W. D. (William Donald), 1936-2000

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Epithet: evolutionary biologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x00035b ...

Steeves, Taylor Armstrong.

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Finnbogadottir, Vigdis, 1930-

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Armstrong, David Thomas.

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Luscombe, George, 1926-

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Widgor, Blossom.

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Wilson, Edward Osborne, 1929-

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Living on Earth (LOE) is the weekly environmental news magazine and information program distributed by National Public Radio since April 1991. The recipient of several prestigious awards, LOE is about the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land on which we live. Its award-winning reporters examine all aspects of the environment by broadcasting news, features, interviews, and commentaries on a broad range of ecological issues that affect our lives: culture, economics, fashion, health, th...

Helliwell, John Forbes.

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Hare, Kenneth

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Goodall, Jane R.

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Kawanabe, Hiroya.

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Guthrie, Helen Andrews.

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Dr. Helen Andrews Guthrie was born September 25, 1925 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. She held a bachelor's degree in home economics and an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario, a master's degree in nutrition and biochemistry from Michigan State University and a doctorate in physiology from the University of Hawaii. Helen A. Guthrie came to The Pennsylvania State College as an instructor in 1949; she was promoted to assistant professor in 1954, and associate professor in 1968. S...

Kean, John Edward.

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Beckwith, John

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John Beckwith, composer, author and teacher, was born in Victoria, BC, 9 March 1927. He has written in most musical genres, and has contributed scholarly articles and criticism in Canadian music studies. From the description of John Beckwith papers 1948-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225154183 Epithet: Major-General; of Add MS 48837 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x0000a8 Comm...

Saltin, Bengt, 1935-

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Safe, S.

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Ronald, Keith, 1928-

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Philip, John Robert, -1999

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MacLaren, James Wade.

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Pritchard, William Roy.

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Davies, Julian Edmund.

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Polge, E. J. Christopher.

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Hardy, Ralph W. F., 1934-....

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Epstein, Nathan Bernic.

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Dickason, Olive Patricia, 1920-2011

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Rao, C. Radhakrishna (Calyampudi Radhakrishna), 1920-

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Campbell, Mona Louise.

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Clark, Eugenie, 1922-2015

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Dr. Eugenie Clark — nicknamed "The Shark Lady" — was a world authority on sharks and fish who built Mote Marine Laboratory in 1955. Genie's one-woman operation eventually grew into a full-fledged research laboratory with twenty-five diverse research programs, a formal education division and the public Mote Aquarium. She was a research assistant at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the New York Zoological Society, and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Clark was t...

Mustard, J.F.

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Gillham, Robert W.

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Tomlinson, Barry

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Ricker, William Edwin

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William E. Ricker was internationally recognized for his contributions to aquatic biology and fisheries science. He was born in Waterdown, Ont. in 1908 and received his formal education from the University of Toronto. W.E. Ricker was a professor of Zoology (teaching about birds and fish) at Indiana University from 1939 to 1950, then returned to Canada to work for the Fisheries Research Board as editor of publications and eventually the board's senior scientist in 1964 when he moved to Nanaimo. F...

Holling, C.S.

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Russell, Peter H.

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Hull, David

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Nielson, Niels Ole.

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Cuddy, A. M., 1919-2006.

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Bain, George Sayers

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Said, Edward W., 1935-2003

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Edward Said (b. Nov. 1, 1935 Jerusalem, Palestine-d. Sept. 24, 2003, New York City, NY) grew up in Palestine and Egypt and relocated to the United States to attend high school. He graduated from Princeton University (BA, 1957) and Harvard University (MA, 1960; PhD, 1964). In 1963, Said joined the Comparative Literature department of Columbia University and also taught at Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Yale. While an English professor, Said became an established cultural critic with the bo...

Hoag, Norris W.

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Shaver, Donald McQueen.

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Brock, William Ranulf

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