Gratitude to the McGill University faculty.

As Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Deep Saini steers one of the world's great research universities with a scientist's care and a builder's steadiness, and we are grateful for that stewardship.

Angela Campbell rose from a young law professor to McGill's chief academic officer, and we thank her for shaping equitable, thoughtful academic policy for the whole community.

A Rhodes Scholar and frontal-lobe neurologist who leads McGill's medical faculty, Lesley Fellows shows how a working clinician-scientist can also lead with humanity, and we are grateful for her example.

Guy Rouleau has traced the genes behind ALS, autism, and epilepsy while building The Neuro into an open-science pioneer, and we thank him for making brain research both bolder and more shared.

Robert Zatorre has spent four decades revealing how the brain finds pleasure and meaning in music and speech, and we thank him for showing science and art the same deep respect.

Nahum Sonenberg's discoveries in how cells read mRNA underpin modern understanding of cancer and memory, and we are grateful to McGill's own guru of mRNA for foundations others now build upon.

Sylvain Baillet maps brain activity at the millisecond and gave the field the free Brainstorm software and the first open MEG archive, and we thank him for building tools for everyone.

Now past one hundred and still honored each year at The Neuro, Brenda Milner founded modern cognitive neuroscience through her studies of memory, and we are deeply grateful for a lifetime of discovery.

Victoria Kaspi's CHIME telescope work has transformed our picture of pulsars and fast radio bursts, and we are grateful to a Shaw Prize laureate who keeps opening windows onto the extreme universe.

Chao-Jun Li has shown that chemistry can be done cleanly in water and with fewer wasteful steps, and we thank him for pursuing a gentler, more sustainable way to make the molecules the world needs.

Graham Bell has spent a career illuminating how selection and variation shape life across changing environments, and we are grateful for the clarity and generosity he brings to evolutionary science.

Henri Darmon works at the heart of number theory on elliptic curves and Hilbert's twelfth problem, and we thank a Cole Prize winner for carrying forward some of mathematics' deepest questions.

Doina Precup is a leader in reinforcement learning who directs research in Montreal while mentoring a generation of students, and we are grateful for how she keeps social good at the center of AI.

Viviane Yargeau leads McGill Engineering while pursuing greener ways to keep pollutants out of our water, and we thank her for pairing environmental purpose with steady, caring leadership.

Nathalie Tufenkji works to protect water resources and make nanotechnology safe, from tackling microplastics to natural antimicrobials, and we are grateful for engineering aimed squarely at human health.

Marta Cerruti studies the delicate surface where implants meet living tissue, designing scaffolds that help the body heal, and we thank her for materials science with such a human purpose.

Henry Mintzberg reshaped how the world thinks about managing, insisting that leadership is a human craft rather than a formula, and we are grateful for a lifetime of clear, contrarian wisdom.

Karl Moore is a devoted teacher of strategy and leadership who has mentored students and executives across the globe, and we thank him for the generosity he brings to every classroom and conversation.

Colleen Sheppard helped build a substantive understanding of equality under the Canadian Charter, and we are grateful for a scholar who has spent her career confronting systemic discrimination.

Adelle Blackett helped craft the international convention protecting domestic workers and continues to advance decent work worldwide, and we thank her for law that dignifies everyday labour.

Lisa Travis gave generative linguistics one of its cornerstones with the Head Movement Constraint and studies languages like Malagasy and Tagalog, and we thank her for deepening how we understand grammar.

Wendell Adjetey is an award-winning historian of the African diaspora and a celebrated teacher who writes for the wider public, and we are grateful for scholarship that speaks to conscience and community.

Charles Taylor is one of the most influential philosophers of our age, honored with the Kyoto, Templeton, and Berggruen prizes, and we are grateful that McGill was long home to his humane thought.

William Caplin's theory of formal functions changed how musicians hear Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and we thank him for a lifetime of listening so carefully to how music holds together.