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On March 1, 2013 the name of the Canadian Plains Research Center (CPRC) Press was changed to the University of Regina Press and launched on June 1, 2013 at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held in Victoria, B.C.. The first Director of the University of Regina Press was Bruce Walsh who planned to “build on the publishing program already in place—including books on [Indigenous] issues, the environment, and regional themes—while strengthening the scholarly apparatus of the press.” At its launch the University of Regina Press had a mandate to publish 30 books a year in both academic and trade formats. Since their launch in 2013, the University of Regina Press has published eight national bestsellers, including: “In My Own Moccasins” by Helen Knott (2020); “After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture” by Stéphane Grenier, with Adam Montgomery (2018); “Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Culinary Journey” by Lenore Newman (2017); “Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (And Yours)” by Harold Johnson (2016); “Otto & Daria: A Wartime Journey into No Man's Land” by Eric Koch (2016); “The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir” by Joseph Auguste Merasty, with David Carpenter (2015); “Children of the Broken Treaty” by Charlie Angus (2015); and “Clearing the Plains” by James Daschuk (2014).

John H. Archer was born on July 11, 1914, near Broadview, Saskatchewan. He was a teacher in rural districts between 1933 and 1940, and during World War II served with the Royal Canadian Artillery in the United Kingdom, North Africa and Italy. After the war he enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan where he earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Master of Arts degree in history and then a Bachelor’s Degree in Library Science from McGill University.

From 1951 to 1964 he served as Saskatchewan’s legislative librarian, was assistant clerk of the Legislature from 1956 to 1961, and the provincial archivist from 1957 to 1962. In 1964 Archer became director of libraries at McGill University where he worked until 1967. At Queen’s University he was archivist and an associate professor of history – while earning a Doctoral degree in history. Archer returned to his home province and to the new University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1969, and was installed in 1970 as the Principal and in 1974 became the first President of the new University of Regina, a position he held until his retirement in 1976.

Archer served on several boards, advisory councils and Royal Commissions, he is the author of Land of Promise (1969), Saskatchewan: A History (1980), Honoured with the Burden (1987), and edited the memoirs of John Diefenbaker in One Canada (1975 - 78).

John Archer received the Order of Canada and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the main library of the University of Regina campus is named for him. He passed away on April 5, 2004.

Lloyd Ingram Barber was born in Regina, Saskatchewan on March 8, 1932. He grew up and received his primary and part of his secondary education in Regina Beach then completed it at Luther College in Regina. He was married in 1956 to Muriel Pauline (Duna) and together they had six children.

Barber attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1953, a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Administration and from the University of California he received a Masters degree in Business Administration (marketing) in 1955.

He joined the staff at the University of Saskatchewan as an Instructor in 1955 and obtained a Doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1964. Barber served as Dean of Commerce in 1966 and as the University Vice-President of the University from 1968 to 1974. After a leave of absence, he was named President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Regina on January 1, 1976 a position he held until he retired in 1990.

Barber became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976 and was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada 1993 and in 1995 invested as a member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. He received the Aboriginal Order of Canada in 1985, was an honorary professor at Shandong University in China, had honorary degrees from the Universities of Alberta and Concordia. He acted as Canada's Indian Claims Commissioner for the Privy Council of Canada from 1969 until 1977 and was very involved in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College.

Barber has been on the Board of Directors for the Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Pacific, and Husky Oil of Canada, Can West Global, Molson Limited and the Winnipeg Commodities Exchange. He was awarded the Vanier Medal in 1979 by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He was President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, served on the executive council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, was a founding member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and in 1967 was appointed to the North West Territorial Council.

Duncan Blewett was born in Edmonton, Alberta on October 28, 1920. After fighting in World War II, Blewett, along with other young veterans, was offered the choice of a lump sum payment or a free education as compensation for their time given to the war. Blewett chose to pursue an education in psychology. He received his BA from the University of British Columbia in 1947 and his MA from the same institution in 1950.

Blewett went on to earn his PhD in one and a half years at the University of London with renowned psychologist Hans Eysenck. He later taught at the University of Illinois which was headed by noted psychologist Raymond Cattell, before the government of Saskatchewan recruited Blewett to be chief psychologist of the province in the 1950s.

Blewett was pivotal in pioneering psychedelic research. In 1959 along with Nicholas Chwelos, he co-authored Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide- 25(LSD): Individual and Group Procedures. Blewett became instrumental in advancing LSD treatment programs as therapy for schizophrenics and alcoholics in Saskatchewan.

In 1961, he was hired by the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus to develop psychology as a discipline at the rapidly growing institution. Here he founded the Department of Psychology. Blewett would also be a founder of the Saskatchewan Psychological Association. During this time he joined the world-renowned University of Saskatchewan research team at the Saskatchewan Hospital in Weyburn and worked beside such notable researchers as biochemist and psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, and project coordinator Humphry Osmond (who coined the word “psychedelic” in a letter to his friend Aldous Huxley).

Blewett retired from the University of Regina in 1986 and moved to Gabriola Island, B.C. after nearly three decades of dynamic research and teaching. Throughout his career Blewett wrote many books and publications that continue to influence the field of psychology today. His early work has been the subject of at least three documentaries, and a fourth was created around his March 24, 2007 memorial on Gabriola Island, B.C.

Blewett died on February 24, 2007. The Duncan Blewett Memorial Psychadelic Research Fund was created by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psycedelic Studies (MAPS) in his honour.

Leonard Herman Greenberg was born October 5, 1925 in Calgary, Alberta.

Greenberg attended school in Calgary, entering the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1944. He graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alberta in 1948. He took a Radioisotope Technique course from the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies in 1949. He obtained his Master of Science degree in Physics also from the University of Alberta, in 1950, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1957. His thesis was on photo alpha reactions in the elements comprising nuclear emulsions.

From 1948 to 1950 he was a Special Lecturer in Physics at the University of Alberta, and from 1950 to 1951 he was a Research Officer in the Radiation Section of Division of Applied Physics at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. In 1952 he became a Special Lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College. Over his 38 year career at the university Greenberg was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1953, Associate Professor in 1957, and Professor in 1972. He also spent 5 years as the department head. From 1955 until 1960, Greenberg was a half-time Physicist at the Allan Blair Memorial Clinic, Saskatchewan Cancer Commission in Regina in addition to his appointment at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College. When the clinic hired a full-time physicist he became a consultant to the clinic.

Greenberg retired from teaching in 1990 and passed away in 2005.