- Dr. Émilie Pinard received Laurentian University's first ever SSHRC Partnership Engage grant at for her project supporting the Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-Utenam Band Council in developing a project to build a centre for the transmission of Innu culture focused on youth.
- Dr. Ming Cai and 4 students designed a patent for a new rock bolt (Superbolt) that has been issued in Chile. This is Laurentian University's first patent in Chile and the first issued patent which names four students as co-inventors.
- Drs. Jennifer Walker (co-PI), Taima Moeke-Pickering, Sheila Cote-Meek, Joey-Lynn Wabie and Celeste Pedri-Spade are part of the research team behind the inaugural summer school of Ontario's Indigenous Mentorship Network (IMN), Ontario's first Indigenous-led health research training network.
- A team of Laurentian University researchers led by Dr. Nathan Basiliko along with Dr. John Gunn, and Dr. Nadia Mykytczuk, received $1.6M from NSERC and OCE for the project entitled "Landscape Carbon Accumulation through Reductions in Emissions (L-CARE)", aimed at tackling the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Dr. Tammy Eger is one of four Canadian women (from a total of 95 women representing 28 countries) to have been selected to participate in a 12-month intensive leadership program for women in STEMM entitled "Homeward Bound", which culminates with a 3-week expedition to Antarctica.
- Dr. Jennifer Walker received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade for her project entitled "Data as Medicine: Improving population-level health information in First Nations communities in Northern Ontario."
- Grace Scott, PhD candidate in Rural and Northern Health, received the Frederick Banting and Charles Best CGS - Doctoral Award, from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
- Dr. Luis Radford received an Honorary Provincial Education Award from the Ministry of Education for his exceptional and sustained contribution to French-language education research in Ontario. The award was presented at the 4th edition of the forum Synergie portant sur la recherche en éducation de langue française de l'Ontario.
- Dr. Luckny Zephyr received First Prize AMBAR 2018 - Research and Development of the Colombian Energy Sector (Research Category) from the Association of Colombian Distributors of Electrical Energy for the paper "MAEP: A Mild- and Long- Term Tool for Hydro-Thermal Power Systems".
- In 2018, bachelor's and master's students in Sciences infirmières received six (6) awards for presenting quality research projects at various conferences.