Dr. Danny Blair is a geography professor and co-director of science for the Prairie Climate Centre. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Regina and a PhD from the University of Manitoba. His main research interests are climate variability and climate change in Canada’s western interior. He was a contributing author of Canada’s National Assessment of Climate Change released in 2008, and is a frequent presenter and participant in workshops about climate change in the Prairie provinces. Current research projects include: a climate change atlas for Manitoba and the Prairies (climateatlas.ca), the identification of Prairie climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, and an assessment of the potential for trans-boundary water conflicts in a changing Prairie climate.

As Director of UWinnipeg’s Faculty of Education ACCESS program since 2003, Phil Baker has created new pathways into post-secondary life for countless students, especially Aboriginal students and those from minority groups. Finding innovative ways to meet real student needs, Phil has helped ensure many students graduate and become successful teachers in our community. Phil has strengthened the academic rigour of the Winnipeg Education Centre program, developed to serve students in the inner city. Under his leadership, enrolment has been stabilized, retention rates have soared, and the hiring rate of graduates has increased dramatically. Phil has also developed and helped to expand other successful programs, including the Community-based Aboriginal Teacher Education Program. 

A Canadian leader of a major experiment searching for the neutron's electric dipole moment, which is being conducted at TRIUMF (Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, BC).  The project is a joint effort between physicists in Canada and Japan.  It seeks to search for additional sources of CP violation that are required, for example, to explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. He is also involved in electron scattering experiments at Jefferson Laboratory (Newport News, VA, USA), and in cold neutron experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, USA).

Prof. Lenna Glade B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed., Vice President Academic, Maple Bear Global Schools. Lenna Glade, a recent retiree from The University of Winnipeg, is a long-time educator. She worked in the public school system first as a Chemistry and Biology​ teacher and then as a school administrator at all levels. ​Ms. Glade, concurrently with her UWinnipeg position, trained teachers and​ administrators and made presentations to the parents of Maple Bear Schools in​ Brazil, China, Korea, Viet Nam, and Singapore over a period of six years, and she​ coordinates the annual Maple Bear Owner’s Convention in Brazil. The line​ between leadership and service grow blurry in work like this. We cannot imagine​ the scope of the hands-on job of Vice President Academic, the time, the energy,​ and the generosity of spirit it takes to fulfill the responsibilities of her current​ position.