In his five years as prime minister, the country introduced universal health care, student loans, the Auto Pact, the Canada Pension Plan and a new Canadian flag. He served at home and abroad, as leader of the country and president of the seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly. Pearson was named a Companion of the Order of Canada and was awarded an Order of the British Empire and an Order of Merit, the highest honour in the Commonwealth, for his service during a historic time in the 20th century.

Born in Newtonbrook, Ont., to a Methodist minister, Pearson studied at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (now Victoria University) and earned bachelor and master’s degrees from the University of Oxford. He taught history at the University of Toronto before entering the foreign service with the Department of External Affairs. Making his way to Washington, D.C., Pearson helped establish the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He became ambassador to the United States in 1945 and led Canada in discussions for the founding of the UN.

In 1948, he was elected MP for Algoma East and became the Minister of External Affairs. As the world entered the Cold War, Pearson signed the North Atlantic Treaty and helped orchestrate the armistice agreement that would end the Korean War. In 1956, his UN resolution to the Suez crisis involving Israel, France, the United Kingdom and Egypt earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. Pearson’s establishment of the United Nations Emergency Force would lead to the modern UN peacekeeping operations of today.

After retiring from politics, he served as a lecturer in history and political science and Chancellor of �Ӱ�ԭ�� University until his death in 1972. Pearson received honorary degrees from institutions across Canada and the United States, including Princeton University, McGill University, Bates College, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Calgary. In 1974, the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific was founded as one of 13 United World Colleges. He is the namesake for myriad Canadian landmarks, from an airport to Mike’s Place – the graduate student pub at �Ӱ�ԭ��. The influential leader has made a lasting impact on the country and the world.

The Pearson connection to �Ӱ�ԭ�� continues with his daughter-in-law’s contributions to campus, including the Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights at �Ӱ�ԭ��. In 2006, upon her retirement from the Senate, she donated her extensive collection of materials related to childhood and children’s rights to �Ӱ�ԭ��. With this donation and with her appointment as adjunct professor in the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, the Landon Pearson Resource Centre was born.

The Cairo-born Canadian raised industrial designer has created products for high-end brands and mass consumption, working with companies such as Samsung, Method, Umbra, Citibank and Veuve Clicquot. A frequent winner of international awards, Rashid has designed the interiors of the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia, the Universita Metro Station in Naples and the Semiramis Hotel in Athens. More than 3,000 of his designs have been put into production and his work is on permanent display in 20 collections and galleries around the world.

Raised in Canada, Karim studied at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University and graduated with a bachelor of industrial design in 1982. He completed graduate studies in Milan and Naples, under Ettore Sottsass and in the Rodolfo Bonetto studio. For seven years he worked at KAN Industrial Designers, where he co-founded the Babel Fashion Collection and several other design projects. In 1993, Rashid opened his own studio in New York City and now manages offices in China. He has produced such well-known designs as the Bobble water bottle and Umbra’s iconic Garbo waste can during a career of more than 20 years. In 2012, he collaborated with Danish furniture company BoConcept to produce the Ottawa Collection as a tribute to his early years of study in Ottawa.

Karim was awarded the 2004 A.D. Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction from �Ӱ�ԭ�� University and holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C and Pratt Institute, New York. He has taught at OCAD, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Pratt Institute and the Rhode Island School of Design, and he continues to speak as a guest lecturer at many conferences and universities worldwide.

Karim has received over 300 awards, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art Collab Design Excellence Award, the 1999 George Nelson Award, several Red Dot Design Awards, several Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, the I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review and the Silver IDEA Award from the Institute of Design in Illinois. In 2010, he was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in New York City and was a winner of Designer Magazine’s 2012 Simon Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement.

His books include From the Beginning (2014); Sketch (2012), a monograph of 300 drawings and computer renderings of selected works; KarimSpace (2009), Design Your Self (2006), Evolution (2004) and I Want to Change the World (2001). With designs for water bottles, furniture, appliances, laptops, jewelry and condominiums, Rashid’s work spans across the fields of fashion, architecture and art to transform our daily living.

The 6’3” guard was a member of the men’s basketball team when it won its record-breaking 10th championship in 2013-’14.

Scrubb joined the team in 2010 and was awarded the Peter Mullins Trophy for rookie of the year in 2011. He was the first Raven to receive the honour.

In 2013, Scrubb became the first back-to-back recipient of the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy since �Ӱ�ԭ�� great Osvaldo Jeanty. The trophy is presented each year to the most outstanding male basketball player in the CIS. Remarkably, he was given the trophy a third straight time in 2014.

In 2014, he was named the BLG Award winner as the CIS male athlete of the year for the 2013-‘14 season across all sports, which included a $10,000 scholarship to attend a Canadian graduate school. He joins fellow �Ӱ�ԭ�� basketball alum Tyson Hinz and Osvaldo Jeanty in receiving this honour.

He was named �Ӱ�ԭ��’s Athlete of the Year in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and was OUA East Player of the Year during the same years.

He was named to the under 18 junior national team in 2010. In 2013, he was the lone active CIS player to attend the Canada’s senior men’s basketball training camp in Toronto. Along with his brother, fellow Raven Thomas Scrubb, Philip was named a member of Canada’s senior men’s national team in 2014. He represented Canada at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.

Scrubb regularly receives interest from NBA recruiters, and plans to continue to play professionally after graduating from �Ӱ�ԭ�� with a Bachelor of Commerce in 2015.

“My team is always pushing me both on and off the court and making me a better person,” says Scrubb.

She represents the emerging generation of leadership in Canada and will provide guidance on issues of importance to the country while promoting Canadian achievements in the arts, humanities and sciences around the world.

Hamilton, an associate professor in �Ӱ�ԭ��’s Department of Law and Legal Studies and the School of Journalism and Communication, is focusing on three major projects – living in a pandemic culture, exploring the important roles that high-profile Supreme Court of Canada cases play in Canadian public life and exploring the ways in which law and the senses collide.

A former Canada Research Chair, she has taught courses in areas such as cultural studies of law, intellectual property, legal personhood, media law and cultural regulation.

He represents the emerging generation of leadership in Canada and will provide guidance on issues of importance to the country while promoting Canadian achievements in the arts, humanities and sciences around the world.

Murray, an associate professor in the �Ӱ�ԭ�� departments of English Language and Literature, and Health Sciences, investigates the ways in which the concept and meaning of life and death are used and understood within the framework of biotechnology, global media networks and politics.

His research focuses on ethics and health care, including the mental health care of prisoners. His philosophical work asks how to develop an ethics that would do justice to the changing ways we have come to understand our relations to ourselves, our bodies and others.

Murray has established a Digital Rhetorics Lab at �Ӱ�ԭ�� for research, teaching and discussion.

The commercialization potential of the advanced technology is expected to attract industrial collaborations. Much of Ye’s research is conducted in �Ӱ�ԭ��’s clean lab, a vibration-free facility. �Ӱ�ԭ�� is one of the few institutions in Canada with such a facility.

After working with the Silicon Photonics/Optoelectronics team at the National Research Council (NRC) during her PhD studies at �Ӱ�ԭ��, she held post-doctorate positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, where she worked on optoelectronic integration and nanofabrication.

In 2010, she received the Technology Exploitation and Networking Collaboration Grant from the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations. In 2011, �Ӱ�ԭ�� awarded Ye the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2012, she became the chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Ottawa Chapter. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers WIE is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists.

Ye was the recipient of Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award in 2012, and �Ӱ�ԭ��’s Research Achievement Award in 2013. She is a mentor in �Ӱ�ԭ��’s Women in Science and Engineering chapter, where she helps foster interest in engineering and innovation among young women.

Ye’s Canada Research Chair (CRC) was renewed in October 2014. She is one of 24 CRCs at �Ӱ�ԭ��.