General's Award in Visual Arts David D. Balam, astronomer and namesake of asteroid 3749 Balam Brendan Burke, Aegean Bronze Age archaeologist Benjamin Butterfield, internationally acclaimed operatic tenor Brian Christie, Associate professor of Medicine and Neuroscience and active researcher Louis D. Costa, neuropsychologist Ronald I. Cheffins, professor emeritus of law and political science, first lawyer to be appointed directly to the British Columbia court of appeal (1985), a Canadian Constitutional expert, advisor to five past British Columbia lieutenant-governors, Vice-chair on the Law Reform Commission of British Columbia (1991), special commissioner appointed by Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace (1953) Harold Coward, world-renowned scholar in religious studies and a president of Academy 2 of the Royal Society of Canada Lorna Crozier, recent recipient of the Order of Canada Aaron H. Devor, sociologist and sexologist known for transgender research and holder of the university's Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a world's first William Gaddes, noted psychologist and one of the first specialists in learning disorders in British Columbia Werner Israel, physicist who discovered the important phenomenon of mass inflation, and together with Stephen Hawking, coeditor of two important celebratory volumes Stephen Arthur Jennings, mathematician who made significant breakthroughs in the study of modular representation theory Mary Kerr, production designer for the 1994 Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies Boualem Khouider, mathematician and climate scientist Patrick Lane, poet and the recipient of almost every major Canadian literary prize Hal Lawrence, World War II veteran and historian Tim Lilburn, poet and winner of the Governor General's Award Stephen Lindsay, cognitive psychologist in the field of memory Joan MacLeod, playwright and creative writing professor Marshall McCall, scientist and expert on the chemical evolution of galaxies Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, educator focusing on learning communities Erich Mohr, researcher in experimental therapeutics for central nervous system disorders Julio Navarro, astrophysicist involved in formulating a density profile for dark matter halos Jesse Read, musical conductor, composer, and bassoonist Jillian Roberts, child psychologist and children's book author Otfried Spreen, neuropsychologist and aphasia researcher James Tully, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy Don VandenBerg, internationally acclaimed astrophysicist for his work on modelling stars Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U.S. vice president Al Gore, member of the British Columbia Climate Action Team, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head