Laurentian has been awarded $3.5 million from the federal government in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding.
NSERC will deliver nearly $3.15 million to Laurentian University through the CREATE, Discovery Grant and Research Tools and Instruments Grant programs.
“A greater number of researchers applied for funding through these programs this year and the University saw a record amount of successful proposals,” said Dr. Thomas Merritt, Laurentian’s NSERC Leader.
To increase success in the NSERC competition, Laurentian has offered workshops, mentoring and peer-to-peer support to researchers which strengthened the applications.
Laurentian was successful in increasing SSHRC funding this year.
“We saw an 11 per cent increase in SSHRC funding over last year,” said Dr. Gillian Crozier, Laurentian’s SSHRC Leader. “This increase is due in large part to new awards in the Insight and Insight Development Grant programs.”
Laurentian researchers were also awarded new funding through SSHRC’s Connection Grant program which supports large-scale knowledge mobilization initiatives.
Dr. Rui Wang, Vice-President Research, congratulated all Laurentian researchers and thanked NSERC and SSHRC for their support.
“I am proud of Laurentian’s researchers across all seven faculties who excelled in this year’s NSERC and SSHRC competition," said Wang.
"Our achievements in these peer-reviewed national funding competitions is evidence of Laurentian’s national recognition and excellence in these areas.”
